As a big fan of In 'N Out here in Nevada, as well as when I lived in California, all I can say is “Congratulations Texas!”
BTW, for anyone looking for work, In 'N Out pays their employees well, and if you should be lucky enough to get the job as manager of a store, I have heard they earn in the $65,000 to $70,000/year range. Not bad as a manager of a burger shop!
As one of few who generally hates french fries, the only ones I ever eat are at In 'N Out…made fresh (you can see them doing it right there), it doesn’t get any better than that!
It’s because they don’t get fried twice. Eat them there, they’re great. If you need to take them home, put them in a very hot oven (450F) for a few minutes.
I thought that In-N-Out Burger only built restaurants in the West because they wanted to make sure that they could supply them from their own warehouse in Southern California (and therefore only located restaurants within a given radius of that location). So does this expansion into Texas mean that they’ve abandoned that restriction? Or are they setting up a supplier warehouse in Texas? And if so, does that mean that East Coast restaurants might follow (with perhaps a new warehouse on the Eastern Seaboard)?
In-N-Out, like anything else that is popular, will have a contingent of die-hard adherents and those who scratch their heads not getting what the big deal is. That’s fine. I’m from Chicago, so I didn’t grow up with these burgers and have no childhood attachment to them, but they are as perfect as a fast food hamburger will ever be. I, for one, love fast-food style hamburgers, and prefer them over their 1/2 pound or higher cousins who live at the pub. But I enjoy both for variety’s sake. In-N-Out is the exemplar of fast food hamburgers.