Texas Roadhouse is planning its fifth Jacksonville-area restaurant on San Jose Boulevard in Mandarin, replacing a shuttered Fifth Third Bank branch at the corner of Kori Road. The steakhouse chain says the site fills a gap between its existing restaurants in the region, and the new location is expected to seat about 300 customers across 7,926 square feet.
The project, valued at $1.5 million, is planned on 1.79 acres of a larger 2.19-acre parcel at 9716 San Jose Blvd., according to the Jacksonville Daily Record. The land is owned by Ash Properties, and Christian Oldenburg said on August 13 that the site will be leased to Texas Roadhouse, which will build and operate its own restaurant there. Ash Properties, headquartered in Jacksonville, manages a commercial real estate portfolio exceeding 12 million square feet across Northeast Florida, per Showcase.com, and has built a reputation for targeting high-traffic suburban corridors for redevelopment.
Site-development plans describe demolishing the closed bank building and redeveloping the parcel for the steakhouse chain. The city of Jacksonville issued a demolition permit for the bank in October 2025, and the Daily Record's report notes the city is now reviewing site development plans and a mobility calculation fee before construction can proceed. Texas Roadhouse told the outlet it does not yet have a construction timeline to share.
A Prototype Steakhouse With a Standardized Blueprint
GreenbergFarrow is serving as the project's agent and civil, structural, mechanical, plumbing and electrical engineer, the same firm handling comparable builds elsewhere. Similar 7,926-square-foot Texas Roadhouse developments engineered by GreenbergFarrow have recently been permitted in other suburban growth markets carrying matching $1.5 million estimated construction costs, Hoodline reported in coverage of a Montgomery-area project. A typical Texas Roadhouse restaurant averages 7,500 to 8,000 square feet, putting the Mandarin build squarely within the chain's standard footprint.
The Mandarin restaurant would become Texas Roadhouse's fifth in the Jacksonville area, joining locations in River City Marketplace, the Town Center area, Orange Park and St. Augustine. Company leadership said the San Jose Boulevard site fills a gap with its existing footprint, a rationale echoed across the chain's recent Florida expansion, including a location that opened as Sarasota County's first Texas Roadhouse in Venice, as Hoodline detailed in its report on the Venice opening.
Familiar Menu, Familiar Traditions
Once open, the Mandarin restaurant would serve the chain's standard lineup of steaks, ribs, chicken, salmon, catfish, shrimp, burgers, salads, sides and desserts, along with a full bar. Every location employs its own in-house butcher and baker; the chain's butchers cut an average of $1 million of meat per store each year while working in 34-degree coolers, and its bakers make yeast rolls from scratch daily. The restaurant will also feature a Willie's Corner celebrating Willie Nelson's career, a local community mural, and a Native American mural created by a Texas Roadhouse artist, traditions found at every location in the chain.
Texas Roadhouse no longer serves buckets of shelled peanuts on restaurant floors, instead offering small packages of peanuts by request at most locations, though peanut shells are still expected to remain in small buckets on tables. The chain traces back to 1993, when founder Kent Taylor opened the first Texas Roadhouse in Clarksville, Indiana. It has since grown to more than 700 restaurants across 49 states plus 40 international locations in 10 additional countries.
Corporate Growth Fuels Local Expansion
The Mandarin project arrives as Texas Roadhouse, Inc. posts strong financial results nationally. The company reported total revenue of $5.88 billion for fiscal year 2025, a 9.4% increase over 2024, according to a company earnings announcement. Company-operated restaurants averaged weekly sales of $177,252 during the second quarter of 2026, up from $167,350 a year earlier, including $25,369 per week in to-go orders alone. In fiscal year 2025 the chain also spent $107.6 million acquiring 20 domestic franchise restaurants to convert into company-owned locations, part of a broader strategy to tighten operational control and boost margins.
Running a Texas Roadhouse restaurant also comes with unusual terms for its leadership. A managing partner takes an ownership interest in the restaurant, must sign a five-year employment contract, and is required to make a $25,000 deposit — in exchange, that partner receives 10% of the profits.
A Corridor Already Home to Steak
San Jose Boulevard, designated State Road 13, functions as a primary commercial artery through southern Duval County, linking Mandarin neighborhoods to I-295 and St. Johns County. The corridor already includes established steakhouse competition, including independent upscale restaurant ChopHouse Thirteen at 11362 San Jose Blvd. Hours for the new Mandarin location have not been finalized, but comparable Jacksonville and Orange Park Texas Roadhouse restaurants open at 11 a.m. Friday through Sunday and 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday, closing at 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The St. Augustine location opens later, at 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Beyond its flagship steakhouse brand, parent company Texas Roadhouse is also expanding its fast-casual burger and shake concept, Jaggers, into southeastern retail markets, a trend Hoodline covered when it reported on a Jaggers conversion at a former Hanes Mall restaurant space. For now, exact timing on the Mandarin steakhouse remains an open question, with the city still reviewing site plans and Texas Roadhouse declining to commit to a construction schedule.
