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Rumors of tasty hamburgers and thick, candied custard concretes are buzzing today, following a post on Prince of Petworth yesterday that hinted at D.C. getting its second stand-alone Shake Shack restaurant.

Dan Silverman wrote that he heard, through his trusty scuttlebutt pipeline, that New York restaurateur Danny Meyer’s ever-popular shake-and-burger chain is looking at moving into the Spy Museum at Ninth and F streets NW. That certainly fuels fantasies slathered in Shack Sauce for Penn Quarter office workers and Gallery Place patrons, but a Shake Shack spokesman said the report is premature.

“We don’t comment on rumors,” said Edwin Bragg, a spokesman for Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group, which operates 16 Shake Shack restaurants spread across New York, D.C., Connecticut, Philadelphia, Florida and the Middle East.

The chain is continuing to grow, but Bragg would not specify where.

“We’re definitely growing and looking to expand in communities we feel we’d like to have a Shake Shack,” he said.

And any future Shake Shack location would take a while to progress from an announced location to a bustling restaurant. Bragg said each Shake Shack is constructed at its own pace depending on the location and concept. The chain’s first D.C. location, in Dupont Circle, was announced in summer 2010 and finally opened in May 2011.

Would a second stand-alone Shake Shack do well in a neighborhood with high pedestrian traffic? No doubt. But, for now, it’s all talk. Until further notice, all our Shake Shack shakes will have to be relieved at either the Dupont Circle location or the Nationals Park concession with the two-inning wait.