Check this: Burger biz hits Walmart

Tampa-based fast-food chain Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, known for double drive-thru locations with no interior seats, is expanding without a core piece of its business model, not to mention its name.

That would be the car.

The chain, in fact, recently signed a deal with Twin Towers Trading Site Management to open and manage three Checkers locations, sans drive-thru, in Walmarts. Two of those locations, to open later this month, will be in North Carolina, the firm says. The third, scheduled for early 2014, will be in Mississippi. Checkers, moreover, recently opened other locations in Super Walmarts, one in Oldsmar and another in Haymarket, Va. Those locations are separate from the Twin Towers deal, Checkers Vice President of Franchise Development Jennifer Durham says.