Kirk A. Bado

USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee

A job posting on LinkedIn might signal that the popular Texas-based burger restaurant Whataburger is preparing to add its first location in Tennessee in recent memory.

Whataburger clarifies posting, is not coming to Nashville

Two weeks ago, the company page on the professional networking website posted an opening for an area manager in Nashville, hinting at a possible expansion. The description calls for an area manager to oversee the overall operations of more than one restaurant and be willing to locate to the southeast United States.

Whataburger currently has over 800 locations throughout the south in over 340 cities, but none in Tennessee. There were several franchises on Gallatin Pike and Charlotte avenue in the 1970s, but all have gone out of business.

In 2015, Whataburger was one named one of the top 5 chains Nashvillians want to see in the city by the Tennessean.

Messages for confirmation were not immediately returned by the company.

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