The menu is filled with around fifteen imaginative burger creations, such as El Diablo, an angus beef burger topped with Tillamook pepper jack, habañeros, serranos, caramelized onions, salsa roja, chipotle aioli, lettuce, and tomato.

As well as hand-spun milkshakes, Hopdoddy is also known for having an extensive beer menu featuring many local craft beers.

The announcement of Hopdoddy comes just a few months after City Council’s approval of the Storefront Conservation Corridor Plan, which was implemented to protect local businesses along the city’s most trafficked retail corridors.

The plan doesn’t explicitly ban chains, but instead introduced minimum and maximum store widths along Central Avenue and Beach Drive, established business assistance grants to keep small businesses in place, and defined “legacy businesses” that helped make St. Pete special.

Although the plan may deter larger chains like McDonald’s or Burger King, you can probably expect to see more regional chains with flexible design standards, such as Hopdoddy, opening in the future. In fact, there are already a handful of them downtown, such as Bento Asian Kitchen + Sushi, Simple Greek, Pour Taproom, and Oak and Stone.