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Texas Roadhouse Camarillo opens oct. 19: hours and Address. Texas Roadhouse opens its first Ventura County restaurant on Monday, October 19, 2026 at 650 E. Ventura Blvd in Camarillo. Hours, waitlist tips and more. Jason Walters Texas Roadhouse opens its Camarillo restaurant on Monday, October 19, 2026, at 650 E. Ventura Blvd. It is the chain's first location in Ventura County, and it has been a long wait: when the project was announced in 2024, the company said it expected to open in the summer of 2025. Quick facts. * Opening date: Monday, October 19, 2026. The chain's Camarillo location page says "Opens 10/19," and local reporting from August 2026 confirms the year. * Address: 650 E. Ventura Blvd, Camarillo, CA 93010, on the Promenade at Camarillo Premium Outlets, next to Finney's Crafthouse. * Phone: 805-764-5070. * Posted hours: Monday to Thursday 3 to 10 p.m., Friday 3 to 11 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. * Seating: the location page offers a waitlist and to-go ordering, not reservations. Where it is. The restaurant sits on the Promenade side of Camarillo Premium Outlets, next door to Finney's Crafthouse at 580 Ventura Blvd. Plans reported by the Ventura County Star in 2024 describe an 8,307 square foot building with 16 new parking spaces and a shared parking agreement with neighboring businesses. Hours and opening day. The hours above are the ones the chain posted before opening, so treat them as the plan rather than a promise. October 19 is a Monday, and weekday service is listed as starting at 3 p.m., so dinner is the realistic first meal unless the restaurant announces something special. No grand opening event has been announced yet. Ventura County Local will update this post if one is. No reservations: how the waitlist works. The Camarillo location page has buttons to join the waitlist and to order to-go, with no reservation option. The Texas Roadhouse app lets you check current wait times, add your name to the list before you arrive, and get a text when your table is ready. During opening week, that is the easiest way to avoid standing around the lobby. The first Texas Roadhouse in Ventura County. The chain has no other location in the county. Until Camarillo opens, the closest Texas Roadhouse restaurants are roughly 100 miles away, in Corona and Rialto in the Inland Empire or in Bakersfield. Locations in Valencia and Lancaster have been reported as early-stage plans with no opening dates. What took so long. When the project surfaced in May 2024, the company said Camarillo was "slated to open in summertime 2025, pending construction." By late July 2024 the city was still preparing the project's environmental review ahead of a planning commission hearing. The October 19, 2026 date appeared in local reporting in August 2026, more than a year after the original target. Is it hiring? Yes. The Camarillo location page says "We're hiring here" and links to open hourly positions on the Texas Roadhouse careers site. More openings this fall. Texas Roadhouse is the first of two big openings on Ventura Boulevard this fall. The new Camarillo Costco opens October 30, eleven days later. For everything else opening, just opened or closing around the county, see New in Ventura County, which Ventura County Local check every week. Faq. When does Texas Roadhouse open in Camarillo? Monday, October 19, 2026. The chain's Camarillo location page lists the restaurant as opening 10/19. Where is the new Texas Roadhouse in Camarillo? 650 E. Ventura Blvd, Camarillo, CA 93010, on the Promenade at Camarillo Premium Outlets, next to Finney's Crafthouse. Does Texas Roadhouse Camarillo take reservations? The location page offers a waitlist rather than reservations. You can join the waitlist online or in the Texas Roadhouse app and get a text when your table is ready. Is this the first Texas Roadhouse in Ventura County? Yes. There is no other Texas Roadhouse in the county. The nearest existing locations are about 100 miles away in Corona, Rialto and Bakersfield. What is the phone number for Texas Roadhouse Camarillo? 805-764-5070. Camarillo Texas Roadhouse restaurants new openings Ventura County Liked this? Send it to a friend who'd enjoy it. One email a week. Handpicked local events, new guides like this, and the neighborhood finds. Free. Unsubscribe in one click. Jason Walters Ventura County Realtor · Founder, Ventura County Local Jason is a Ventura County real estate agent who covers the restaurants, shops, neighborhoods, and people that make the county home. He founded Ventura County Local to give residents one place for everything that matters.

This popular restaurant chain is coming to Steele Creek. When does it open? Updated September 11, 2026 1:16 PM Texas Roadhouse, the restaurant chain known for its hand-cut steaks and pillowy yeast rolls, is set to swing open the doors on another Charlotte-area restaurant this fall. The new eatery will debut at 13425 Rigsby Road in Steele Creek, near the Charlotte Premium Outlets, with an estimated Nov. 9 opening, according to its website. It's slated to create 220 jobs and will join the brand's existing locations in Matthews, Concord, Gastonia, Rock Hill and Salisbury, the restaurant said in a news release. Kevin Allmon was listed as a managing partner. The Louisville-based company filed a land development construction plan with the City of Charlotte this time last year, online records show. The Steele Creek project is already underway with completed landscaping and lighting, plus a shared parking agreement. CharlotteFive reached out to Texas Roadhouse for more information on Friday and was awaiting a response. The popular steakhouse chain serves a variety of beef cuts, usually on display in a glass case near the entrance. The menu also includes chicken and seafood dishes, plus burgers and "fall-off-the-bone" ribs. August 31, 2026 5:27 PM For starters, there are fried pickles and boneless wings. And don't forget the unlimited yeast rolls served with cinnamon honey butter. Since launching in 1993, Texas Roadhouse has grown to more than 700 locations nationwide, its website says. Its other brands include Bubba's 33 and casual burger joint Jaggers, which is slated to open in Concord, CharlotteFive reported. Once open, the Texas Roadhouse in Steele Creek will serve dinner only Monday through Thursday from 3-10 p.m., and on Friday from 3-11 p.m. Lunch and dinner service will be available Saturday from noon-11 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Location: Various Cuisine: Steakhouse, American September 10, 2026 2:43 PM September 3, 2026 1:00 PM This story was originally published September 11, 2026 12:46 PM. June 12, 2026 9:58 AM Food and drink. September 9, 2026 11:41 AM Sun Herald Tanasia is a service journalism reporter at the Charlotte Observer | CharlotteFive, working remotely from Atlanta, Georgia. She covers restaurant openings/closings in Charlotte and statewide explainers for the NC Service Journalism team. She's been with McClatchy since 2020.

Cracker Barrel edges out Texas Roadhouse for top family-friendly dining spot despite rocky rebrand. September 10, 2026 Cracker Barrel claimed the No. 1 spot on a national family-friendly restaurant ranking, beating out the financially dominant Texas Roadhouse, a result that surprised many given the chain's turbulent year of leadership upheaval and a rebrand that cost shareholders hundreds of millions. The ranking, published by food and nutrition site Eat This, Not That, placed Cracker Barrel above Texas Roadhouse as America's best casual dining chain for families. Texas Roadhouse, which operates more than 750 locations and dwarfs Cracker Barrel in revenue and market value, landed at No. 2. The report cited Cracker Barrel's old-country store atmosphere, table games for kids, and an expansive children's menu as factors that made it "ever-so-slightly more family-friendly" than its competitor, The U.S. Sun reported. The ranking is a bright spot for a company that has spent the better part of the last year digging itself out of a self-inflicted hole. Cracker Barrel's $700 million remodeling and rebranding effort, launched under former CEO Julie Masino, drew fierce backlash from the chain's loyal customer base, wiped out hundreds of millions in shareholder value, and ultimately cost Masino her job. A $700 million rebrand that customers never asked for. Cracker Barrel built its brand on nostalgia, rocking chairs on the porch, country cooking, and a gift shop that felt like a trip to grandma's house. The rebranding effort under Masino tried to modernize that image. Among the changes: the company removed "Uncle Herschel," its longtime mascot, from the logo. Diners pushed back hard. Online criticism mounted, and the financial damage was swift. Cracker Barrel's market value dropped between $94 million and $143 million in a single day, CBS News reported at the time. Within a few months, the total loss reached roughly $262 million. President Donald Trump weighed in on Truth Social, writing that Cracker Barrel: "should go back to the old logo, admit a mistake based on customer response (the ultimate Poll), and manage the company better than ever before." The message captured a frustration shared by millions of the chain's core customers, people who went to Cracker Barrel precisely because it had not tried to become something it was not. When a sitting president tells you to reverse course, the customer feedback loop has spoken loudly enough. Masino out, Deno in as Cracker Barrel resets. On August 10, Julie Masino stepped down as CEO. David Deno replaced her and inherited a company in need of stabilization. Cracker Barrel's market capitalization sits at roughly $1.2 billion, a fraction of what it might have been without the rebrand debacle. Quarterly revenues hover between $820 million and $870 million. The chain has also rolled out new "scan" checkout technology across all of its locations, a quieter operational move that drew far less public attention than the logo fight. With more than 650 locations nationwide, 60 in Florida, 55 in Texas, and 51 in Tennessee, Cracker Barrel still commands a significant footprint in the casual dining space, even if its balance sheet lags behind its chief rival. Texas Roadhouse dominates on the bottom line. By every financial measure, Texas Roadhouse is the bigger business. The chain reported annual revenue growth between 10 and 11 percent in 2026, pulling in approximately $1.68 billion per quarter. Its market capitalization stands at roughly $12.4 billion, more than ten times Cracker Barrel's valuation. And it is still growing, with new restaurant openings continuing through 2026. Texas Roadhouse runs more than 750 restaurants across the country, with its heaviest concentration in its namesake state, 87 locations in Texas alone. Florida follows with 46, and Ohio rounds out the top three with 37. None of that, apparently, was enough to beat a chain with rocking chairs and a country store when the metric was which restaurant families most want to walk into on a Saturday night. The Eat This, Not That methodology was not detailed in the report, so it remains unclear exactly how "family-friendly" was defined or weighted. That ambiguity leaves room for skepticism about the ranking's rigor, but the result still tells a story about brand loyalty that financial performance alone cannot capture. Brand loyalty outlasted a boardroom blunder. Cracker Barrel's path to the top of this list ran directly through a period that should have destroyed its brand appeal. The company spent $700 million trying to become something its customers did not want. It shed a beloved mascot. It watched a quarter-billion dollars in market value evaporate. Its CEO lost her job over it. And yet families still chose it first. That says less about the wisdom of Cracker Barrel's leadership than about the depth of affection ordinary Americans have for a restaurant that, at its best, feels like home. The customers who pushed back against the rebrand were not resisting change for its own sake. They were defending something specific, a place that served familiar food in a familiar setting without pretending to be something trendier or more sophisticated. Texas Roadhouse, for its part, has executed a near-flawless growth strategy. Double-digit revenue increases, aggressive expansion, and a market cap north of $12 billion make it the envy of casual dining. Finishing second in a family-friendliness ranking is hardly a crisis for a company posting those numbers. Corporate America keeps learning the same lesson the hard way: customers know what they signed up for, and they do not appreciate being told their taste needs updating. Cracker Barrel nearly paid the ultimate price for forgetting that, and the fact that it still came out on top says everything about whose judgment matters most.