In-N-Out Burger Plans 35 More Tennessee Locations

In-N-Out Burger seems to be inching closer and closer to the East Coast, as the SoCal favorite recently announced its plans to open 35 more locations in Tennessee.

According to the Nashville Business Journal, the main reason for the impressive expansion is that the company’s heiress owner, Lynsi Snyder, “fell in love” with Tennessee, which she admitted at the Feb. 4 Nashville Business Breakfast, hosted by Lipscomb University and the Business Journal.

Despite insisting that she would never bring In-N-Out this far east, the restaurant will make its Tennessee premiere later this year with its Franklin location. At the same time, its corporate “eastern headquarters” are also being built in Williamson County.

“[My husband] just started talking about Tennessee, and then God started working on my heart. I started bringing it to the office, ‘I think we’re supposed to go to Tennessee,’” Snyder-Ellingson said during the event. “It was really just a God thing. And then of course the more I’ve come here, I’ve fallen in love with really the whole state, but there’s something very quaint about especially the Franklin area.”

Franklin, Goodlettsville, Antioch, and Lebanon have all been identified as Nashville-area sites.

According to Snyder, each In-N-Out Burger store employs an average of 100 workers, which means the eateries may create 3,500 jobs in Tennessee alone. The Franklin office, which will cost $126 million and span over 100,000 square feet, will employ approximately 200 people when it opens in 2026. She said the organization is still deciding which positions to hire for.

In-N-Out Burger Is Privately Owned, Not Franchised

Unlike other fast-food restaurants, In-N-Out Burger is not franchised. Instead, it is a privately owned company.

PopCrush says the fast-food business has 400 stores in California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Texas, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, and Washington.

This is not a franchise, like most fast-food restaurants; it is privately owned. Furthermore, it uses food that is always fresh and never frozen, and it exercises extreme vigilance to avoid overspending while keeping costs lower than competitors.

Because In-N-Out Burger does not pre-package, freeze, or microwave its food, a plant that produces hamburger patties or a place to open one must be within 300 miles of the restaurant.