Popular burger chain to open new location in this Triangle shopping center
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- Shake Shack will open its first Morrisville site at Park West Village.
- It moves into the former Full Moon Oyster Bar space at 1600 Village Market Place.
- This will be the sixth Triangle location and joins 10 stand-alone Shake Shacks in NC.
A burger chain offering crinkle-cut fries and a relatively large milkshake menu is expanding in the Triangle.
Shake Shack is going to open its first Morrisville location soon. The restaurant will be in the Park West Village shopping center off NC-54, the chain confirmed to The News & Observer.
While specifics on timing have not been shared, Shake Shack announced that the Morrisville restaurant will open this year.
The Park West Village location will be Shake Shack’s sixth in the Triangle, joining stores in Raleigh (including an outpost at Lenovo Center), Holly Springs, Cary and Chapel Hill.
Shake Shack entered the Triangle’s burger scene in 2019, when the New York-based restaurant chain opened in Cary’s Waverly Place shopping center.
There are now 10 stand-alone Shake Shacks in North Carolina.
New Shake Shack opening in the Triangle
It will be located at 1600 Village Market Place in the former Full Moon Oyster Bar & Seafood Kitchen space. The restaurant shared in a November social media post that it would close its Park West Village location after 11 years and look to open in a “smaller neighborhood setting where we will continue to offer an intimate dinner party vibe with our communal dining experience.”
Park West Village is a Target-anchored shopping center that also hosts Trader Joe’s and Nordstrom Rack and big-box retailers such as Ulta, HomeGoods, Ross Dress for Less and PetSmart. The mixed-use development, which features a few multifamily living communities, lost its movie theater, B&B Theatres, earlier this year.
Among its restaurant tenants are Chipotle, Dutch Bros Coffee, Panera, Ruckus Pizza and Another Broken Egg.
Shake Shack menu
Shake Shack was founded in 2004 in Madison Square Park in New York City. In the past 20-plus years, it has grown to more than 670 global locations, including about 430 in the United States.
The restaurant offers hamburgers and chicken sandwiches — available with buns or wrapped in lettuce — hot dogs, split and griddled, and on the side, onion rings and fries ($3-$7, depending on toppings). A standard ShackBurger, made with two 4-ounce patties, American cheese, lettuce, tomato and ShackSauce on a toasted potato bun, costs $10.
For drinks, Shake Shack spins milkshakes ($5), and not just in the three basic flavors. Cookies and cream, coffee, black and white, and vanilla and chocolate join the trinity of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.
