In-N-Out Is Coming to Commerce, South El Monte and Chino

The burger chain's new sites are on Craig Lane in Commerce, Santa Anita Avenue in South El Monte and Pine Avenue in Chino.

In-N-Out is coming to Commerce, South El Monte and Chino.

The burger chain added all three Southern California sites to the opening-soon list on its website, the Los Angeles Times first reported on Monday. Here's where they're going:

• 6232 Craig Lane, Commerce
• 1221 Santa Anita Ave., South El Monte
• 8245 Pine Ave., Chino

A fourth California store is headed for 10537 Trinity Parkway in Stockton, in the Central Valley. The list's only out-of-state entry is in Hendersonville, Tenn.

No opening dates came with the list.

That lineup shows where the chain's weight still sits. In-N-Out runs more than 400 restaurants in 10 states, and more than 200 of them are in California, the Times reported. Four new California stores against one in Tennessee is a home market getting fed first, and looking at those numbers I get why.

It also didn't surprise anyone watching the company. Jim Salera, a senior vice president who covers restaurant stocks at Stephens, an Arkansas financial services firm, told the Times that California is the chain's home turf. He said he wasn't shocked to see it keep building here while the minimum wage climbs and land stays expensive. He said the three new cities look like places full of "high-propensity guests" In-N-Out hasn't reached yet. Translation: people likely to become regulars, who don't have a store close by.

Tennessee is the other half of the story. In-N-Out opened its first stores there last year and already has five, according to the company's website. That push lines up with a personal move by Lynsi Snyder, the chain's owner and president and the granddaughter of its founders. On a conservative podcast, she said she was taking her family out of California and bringing them up in Tennessee.

Salera said the Tennessee bet seems to follow the population boom across Southern states since the pandemic, as new industries have moved into the region. More people means better odds for a restaurant, he said, and the chain's old-school burger menu plays well with transplants.

Just don't expect a Double-Double in Manhattan. Speaking at Pepperdine this year, Snyder said she didn't expect the chain to reach "the East Coast in my lifetime," according to Fox reporting cited by the Times.

The company's communications team didn't immediately answer the Times' request for comment.

For the new stores' neighbors, there's a little homecoming in all this. In-N-Out started in Baldwin Park in 1948, the year founder Harry Snyder came up with the two-way speaker box drive-thrus still use. It plans to move its headquarters from Irvine back to Baldwin Park by 2029.

Source: latimes.com, retrieved September 29, 2026.