In-N-Out Burger will open three drive-thrus in Nashville suburbs this week as part of a major expansion into Tennessee.
Drive-thrus will open in Lebanon and Antioch on Wednesday, Dec. 10 and Murfreesboro on Friday, Dec. 12, according to a news release.
News agencies in Tennessee are not yet reporting what kinds of crowds are expected, but In-N-Out’s debut in the Southeast has been eagerly anticipated.
The expansion will bring the total number of In-N-Out restaurants to 431 and officially put the chain in 10 states: California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Tennessee.
In-N-Out currently has its headquarters in Irvine, but plans to pull its leadership out of Orange County by the end of the decade and operate out of Baldwin Park, its hometown, and new offices for an “eastern hub” in Franklin, also a Nashville suburb. The area is considered Middle Tennessee.
In mid-July, Lynsi Snyder, In-N-Out’s owner and president, created a media sensation when she said in a podcast that her family will be moving to Tennessee.
“There’s a lot of really great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here. Doing business is not easy here,” Snyder said in the podcast.
After a flurry of social media responses, she addressed the backlash, stating, ““We’re not leaving California or leaving our roots behind.”
The managers of the three new restaurants are all In-N-Out veterans, with more than 60 years experience combined in the company, the news release said. Employees will start at $17.50 an hour. In California, starting rates are $22-$23.
The Franklin project has been in the works for years.
Snyder and other officials broke ground on the 100,000-square foot office building in Franklin in September 2024. Its address is 1948 Double Double Drive. It is expected to open in 2026.
The expansion was first announced in January 2023 and has been a major project for In-N-Out this year. The chain made the announcement about leaving its Irvine offices in February, followed by the announcement of several Tennessee restaurants. In-N-Out will open as many as 35 in coming years, according to The Tennesseean, Nashville’s newspaper.
In-N-Out lists one other Middle Tennessee restaurant on the “opening soon” page of its website, at 1951 Double Double Drive in Franklin.
There’s one California location on the opening soon web page. It’s in Bell, west of the 710-Freeway.
No opening date has been announced for the drive-thru, at 6415 Atlantic Ave., but it is nearing completion, according to social media posts.
In-N-Out usually adds restaurants to its opening soon page when they are eight to 10 months away from opening, but photos posted in November on the Bell’s Instagram page show a nearly completed building. And an Oct. 23 post on In-N-Out Enthusiasts describes the location as “coming along nicely.”
Information: in-n-out.com
