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GULFSHORE BUSINESS READERS WANT PORTILLO’S, WHITE CASTLE IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 

Gulfshore Business readers are craving Portillo’s and White Castle. When asked what chain restaurant they’d want to see come to Southwest Florida in the latest reader poll, voters showed their support for Portillo’s, the Chicago-based fast-casual restaurant specializing in hotdogs, Maxwell Street Polish and Italian Beef. It led the way with 14.4% of the vote. The nearest Portillo’s location is in the Tampa area. White Castle, the regional hamburger chain restaurant that opened its largest store in Orlando last year, followed closely with 13.5% in the open-ended poll. In-N-Out Burger, which primarily operates in California and the Southwest, took home 10.6% of the vote. Texas-based Whataburger (4%), South Korea-based Bonchon Chicken (3.3%), North Carolina-based Bojangles (3%), Texas-based Chuy’s Tex-Mex (2.6%), Louisiana-based Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers (2.6%), Texas-based Maggiano’s Little Italy (1.9%) and California-based Jack in the Box (1.9%) rounded out the top 10.