{"id":31152,"date":"2023-03-14T08:28:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=31152"},"modified":"2023-03-14T08:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:28:55","slug":"is-jack-in-the-box-eyeing-a-location-in-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/03\/14\/is-jack-in-the-box-eyeing-a-location-in-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Jack in the Box eyeing a location in Lakeland?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hamburger lovers&nbsp;could get another choice following the recent announcement that west coast fast food chain Jack in the Box is searching for a location in Lakeland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jack-in-the-Box-Prototype-Angle-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jack-in-the-Box-Prototype-Angle-2.png 800w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jack-in-the-Box-Prototype-Angle-2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jack-in-the-Box-Prototype-Angle-2-768x576.png 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt&nbsp;the&nbsp;moment,&nbsp;there isn\u2019t a franchise agreement for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Lakeland area,\u201d said an email from a spokeswoman for Jack in the Box.&nbsp;\u201cHowever,&nbsp;the&nbsp;brand is looking to identify and align with qualified restaurant franchise&nbsp;investors to make its debut&nbsp;in&nbsp;Lakeland.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The restaurant chain announced that it plans to open franchises in several Florida cities, including Tampa and Orlando, a press release said. In all, the company plans to open 14 restaurants in both Florida and Arkansas as part of a nationwide expansion. This was the first time the brand has entered the Arkansas market, and over 30 years since it was last in Florida.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"605\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VegNews.JackintheBoxJackImpossible-1024x605.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VegNews.JackintheBoxJackImpossible-1024x605.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VegNews.JackintheBoxJackImpossible-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VegNews.JackintheBoxJackImpossible-768x454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VegNews.JackintheBoxJackImpossible-1536x908.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VegNews.JackintheBoxJackImpossible.jpg 1600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to Lakeland, the company is interested in the following cities in Florida: Miami, Miami Gardens, Hialeah, Pembroke Pines, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miramar, Davie, Planation, Sunrise, Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, Coral Springs, Jacksonville, Port St. Lucie, Deltona, Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Gainesville, Palm Bay, St. Petersburg, West Palm Beach, and Clearwater.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"541\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Logo_of_Del_Taco.svg-1024x541.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Logo_of_Del_Taco.svg-1024x541.png 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Logo_of_Del_Taco.svg-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Logo_of_Del_Taco.svg-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Logo_of_Del_Taco.svg.png 1200w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, the company bought Del Taco, which has been opening locations in Florida. Jack in the Box has more than 2,000 restaurants in 21 states, mostly in the Western U.S. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamburger lovers&nbsp;could get another choice following the recent announcement that west coast fast food chain Jack in the Box is searching for a location in Lakeland.&nbsp; \u201cAt&nbsp;the&nbsp;moment,&nbsp;there isn\u2019t a franchise&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[4757],"class_list":["post-31152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-is-jack-in-the-box-eyeing-a-location-in-lakeland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}