Central Oregon is getting its first Burgerville this month

Burgerville is venturing into uncharted territory and opening its first central Oregon restaurant.

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The Vancouver-based burger chain is bringing seasonal sundaes and its

new line of “dirty soda” drinks

— plus a limited-time burger with locally made toppings — to Bend this month, the company announced Tuesday. The location will take over a former Del Taco drive-thru at 612 S.E. 3rd St., near the Bend Elks baseball stadium.

Burgerville’s Bend location will open its doors at 10 a.m. June 23.

The Bend-exclusive Pub Beer Cheese Slider — featuring a

Country Natural Beef

patty and beer cheese from Bend-based

10 Barrel Brewing Co.

piled onto on a pretzel bun — will stay on the menu for the first month. Twenty percent of slider proceeds will go to local food relief nonprofit

The Giving Plate

Burgerville’s

last city-exclusive burger

— the Don Burger in Salem, which spotlighted cilantro jalapeno cheese from the award-winning

Don Froylan Creamery

— was a hit.

The Bend restaurant is the latest push in Burgerville’s

regional expansion

efforts. The chain recently

returned to Salem

after a 30 year absence, and last summer, it opened a restaurant

in Wilsonville

— Burgerville’s first new location in almost a decade.

Burgerville currently operates more than 40 locations in the Pacific Northwest, mostly in the Portland- and Vancouver-areas. The Bend restaurant will be its first in central Oregon.

“Expanding into Bend is an exciting milestone for Burgerville,” May Han, the chain’s chief development officer,

said in a March news release

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