In-N-Out Burger Announces Closure of Orange County Headquarters After 30 Years Amidst Tennessee Expansion

In-N-Out Burger has announced that it is closing its Orange County headquarters after 30 years amidst reports that the Southern California fast-food favorite is making its mark in Tennessee.

The Orange County Register reports that the company is looking to establish a new future in Tennessee and return to its origins in the San Gabriel Valley. According to a news release on Feb. 10, the fast-food giant plans to consolidate in Baldwin Park by the end of 2029, leaving its Irvine offices at 4199 Campus Drive.

The chain was established in 1948 in Baldwin Park, serving as In-N-Out’s “western territory” headquarters. After constructing an “eastern territory office” close to Nashville, In-N-Out Burger is anticipated to start adding restaurants in the state by the end of this year.

“Some of our Associates will be relocating to Tennessee, which makes it even more important to centralize our western headquarters in one location, and our company’s deepest roots are in Baldwin Park,” owner and president Lynsi Snyder said in the news release. “Our West Coast family will be together in one place, where In-N-Out Burger began.”

In-N-Out Burger Is Planning Nearly 40 Tennessee Locations

With the recent announcement of intentions to open 35 additional stores in Tennessee, In-N-Out Burger appears to be getting closer to the East Coast.

At the Feb. 4 Nashville Business Breakfast, which was organized by Lipscomb University and the Business Journal, Snyder acknowledged that she “fell in love” with Tennessee, which is the primary cause of the remarkable growth, according to the Nashville Business Journal.

Even though she insisted that she would never expand In-N-Out this far east, the restaurant will open its first outpost in Tennessee later this year in Franklin. At the same time, its corporate “eastern headquarters” are also being constructed 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 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.”