Shake Shack is officially headed to London, Ontario, with a new location planned for 3275 Wonderland Rd. S. Opening is expected in the first half of 2027, and this one comes with a detail no other Ontario location can claim: it’ll be the chain’s first drive-thru in the province.
According to the London Economic Development Corporation, the south-end spot is expected to create around 100 full and part-time jobs, including management positions. The building at that address, part of the Wonderland Power Centre development, was completed in 2025.
For context on the brand: Shake Shack started as a hot dog cart in Madison Square Park in New York City, set up to support a public art project. It became a permanent kiosk in 2004 and has since grown into a global chain. The original location, an ivy-covered kiosk in the park’s southwest corner, is still open today.
The Wonderland Rd. S. corridor has been pulling in bigger names steadily over the past few years, and a drive-thru Shake Shack fits right into that pattern. For anyone who’s made the trip to Toronto or caught one at an airport just to get a ShackBurger, having one twenty minutes from downtown is a different situation entirely.
The London EDC’s announcement doesn’t get into menu specifics or exact opening dates beyond the first-half-of-2027 window, so the finer details are still to come. What’s confirmed: the address, the drive-thru format, and the job count.
3275 Wonderland Rd. S. is part of the Wonderland Power Centre on the city’s south end. No opening date beyond the first half of 2027 has been confirmed in the available information.
First Ontario drive-thru. That’s not a small thing for a chain that’s been stubbornly walk-up-only across the province until now.