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Texas Roadhouse is pressing ahead with one of the most aggressive unit-growth runs in casual dining, confirming a wave of new U.S. restaurants in mid-2026. A new Cypress, Texas location opened on June 1 near the Bridgeland and Fairfield communities northwest of Houston, while a Winter Haven, Florida steakhouse is slated to open in late June — the chain’s third new Florida restaurant of the year. The openings underscore how the steakhouse brand keeps converting strong traffic into physical footprint at a time when many casual-dining peers are retrenching.
The Cypress restaurant, located at 22020 West Road and owned by operator Rigo Quines, began hiring line cooks and servers ahead of its June 1 debut. In Florida, the forthcoming Winter Haven location on Cypress Gardens Boulevard is an roughly 8,000-square-foot restaurant expected to employ about 220 full- and part-time workers once open. Founded in Clarksville, Indiana in 1993, Texas Roadhouse now operates more than 600 locations worldwide.
Both new sites sit in fast-growing suburban catchments — exactly the high-traffic, family-oriented trade areas where the steakhouse format performs best. The brand’s preference for large-format, value-driven restaurants in expanding metro fringes is a template that travels well, and one that increasingly informs how the company evaluates international development as well as domestic builds. Investors weighing casual dining versus faster-service formats often look closely at how these footprints scale.
The expansion is underwritten by robust financial performance. Texas Roadhouse posted first-quarter 2026 revenue of approximately $1.63 billion, supported by 7.1% comparable-restaurant sales growth and continued store-week expansion. That momentum has driven a string of bullish Wall Street price-target moves, with analysts citing easing beef costs, resilient traffic and margin upside from to-go and expanded capacity.
“Texas Roadhouse has over 600 locations worldwide to date,” the company told Community Impact.
New full-size steakhouses are only one lever. The company is also leaning into its smaller, higher-frequency concepts — including Bubba’s 33 and the chicken-focused Jaggers — to diversify dayparts and price points. That portfolio approach, detailed in coverage of how smaller concepts are driving 2026 growth, gives the group multiple ways to add units without cannibalizing its flagship.
For operators and capital allocators across Asia Pacific and the Gulf, Texas Roadhouse’s domestic cadence is a useful read on the durability of the American casual-steakhouse model. The brand’s discipline — large-format real estate in growth corridors, scratch-made menus, value pricing and a multi-concept pipeline — is precisely the kind of unit economics that international master franchisees scrutinize when assessing whether a U.S. format can be localized for Southeast Asian malls or Saudi and UAE dining hubs. As Western casual-dining brands look east for their next leg of growth, the consistency on display in Cypress and Winter Haven is the proof point that makes cross-border conversations credible. For the international market, the takeaway is less about two suburban restaurants and more about a system still confident enough to keep building.
Source: Community Impact — Texas Roadhouse announces opening date for new Cypress location
