Wonder chain, with Bobby Flay, Jose Andres brands, due in Glenville

GLENVILLE — Wonder, a fast-growing restaurant chain that provides greater than 500 menu gadgets from about 30 manufacturers, together with by big-name cooks like Bobby Flay and Jose Andres, is being developed for a fall opening in a former Applebee’s location on Saratoga Road/Route 50.

It would be the first Wonder upstate, although the corporate, which has been opening brick-and-mortar places solely since 2023, already has about 130 eating places in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, with roughly two dozen extra due to debut over the summer time, according to its website. The Glenville location will not be but listed, however a confirmed confirmed it’s on monitor to open in late September.

Some of the “restaurants” out there on Wonder’s vast menu have their very own current places, whereas others are unique to Wonder, together with these by superstar cooks Flay (Bobby Flay Steak), Andres (the Spanish-themed Jot), Michael Symon (the Greek Chios Taverna and the Mediterranean Yasas), Marcus Samuelsson (streetbirdfor Harlem fried hen) and Jonathan Waxman (Walnut Lanefor rustic Californian).

Many Wonder places are open from 10:30 am to 11:30 pm each day, though the spokesperson mentioned it’s too early to say what the Glenville hours will likely be or what number of it should make use of.

The firm was launched by serial entrepreneur Marc Lore, who based the e-commerce platform jet.com in 2014, offered it to Walmart two years later for $3 billion and was head of e-commerce for the retail large till 2021. Wonder, launched in 2018 as a food-delivery startup, in the previous three years has expanded its bodily presence explosively, purchased the ordering app Grubhub to combine its eating places into the Wonder app, began delivering by drones in New Jersey in March of this yr and final week introduced a deal to incorporate ChatGPT into Grubhub ordering.