In-N-Out Burger has post three new locations in Tennessee on the “opening soon” page of its website, starting the countdown to the Southern California chain’s entry to the state.
Proposed In-N-Out restaurants can spend years in planning departments, but In-N-Out usually only adds them to its website when locations are at or near construction. There’s usually several months between when locations go on the website and when they open their doors.
The restaurants are in Antioch, Lebanon and Murfreesboro. All are near Nashville.
In-N-Out is in the process of building an “eastern hub” in Franklin, also a Nashville suburb.
The future of In-N-Out has been in the news this summer since its owner and president Lynsi Snyder announced plans to move to Tennessee, although the chain announced it would be moving its leadership out of Irvine in favor of Baldwin Park, its hometown, and Franklin several months earlier.
The Tennesseean, a Nashville newspaper, has reported that In-N-Out will build 35 restaurants in Tennessee. It also reported that In-N-Out is close to taking job applications for the Lebanon restaurants.
In-N-Out lists 284 California restaurants on its website, followed by 43 in Texas and 39 in Arizona.
In-N-Out is also expanding in the Pacific Northwest. It opened its first Washington State drive-thru in Ridgefield, near the Oregon border, on Aug. 20. Local media reported that the first customers arrived 14 hours before Snyder cut a red ribbon emblazoned with palm trees.
After that, a white Washington State T-shirt went on sale for $19.48, a nod to the year that Snyder’s grandparents opened, Harry and Esther, opened the first In-N-Out drive-thru in Baldwin Park.
The three Tennessee locations doubles the number of restaurants on In-N-Out’s opening soon page from three to six. The others are in Monrovia, Sylmar and Longmont, Colo.
