In-N-Out opening in Washington

[ClownLoach]

The first In-N-Out in Washington state will be arriving in Ridgefield, just north of Portland.

This has not yet received a social media post from In-N-Out, but is confirmed by the Register. Interesting that Portland seems to be getting bypassed.

https://www.ocregister.com/2024/03/01/i ... dTWHMFrxyY

[SamSpade]

Local TV media also chose to report about it (KOIN-6 Television).
The Oregonian has an article but has locked it to subscribers only.

[storewanderer]

Good location for them.

Strange they skipped over Portland but I'm sure they'll find a suitable site in the Beaverton/Hillsboro area soon. Maybe even one over closer to PDX.

[ClownLoach]

Good location for them.

Strange they skipped over Portland but I'm sure they'll find a suitable site in the Beaverton/Hillsboro area soon. Maybe even one over closer to PDX.

I know for certain they were looking at other sites in Clark County before this one was announced. So they are going to have some closer to Portland.

[Super S]

A former Rite Aid in Vancouver, WA may soon become an In-N-Out:

https://www.kptv.com/2024/04/24/in-n-ou ... ashington/

It will be interesting to see how much further north they expand. Seems like they would do well with areas such as Woodland, Kelso, and Chehalis where there are still some highly visible places to build. And there are two recently closed Rite Aid locations in Lacey that are not far from the freeway.

[ClownLoach]

A former Rite Aid in Vancouver, WA may soon become an In-N-Out:

https://www.kptv.com/2024/04/24/in-n-ou ... ashington/

It will be interesting to see how much further north they expand. Seems like they would do well with areas such as Woodland, Kelso, and Chehalis where there are still some highly visible places to build. And there are two recently closed Rite Aid locations in Lacey that are not far from the freeway.

Very smart that they're seemingly looking at larger properties with a surplus of parking for the first few stores. Is the Ridgefield store going up with the new Costco? The Keizer store is nuts, like nothing I've ever seen elsewhere. Drive back up after an Oregon football game and I am sure they were serving about 150 cars an hour, possibly same number of orders per hour inside. Huge space taking up the entire back of a hotel and such with a giant makeshift car corral system made of rope and cones. Easily 200 cars waiting in corrals at 1 AM, at least a hundred people in line just to get into the restaurant for dine in or take out, and they weren't done with them even at 2 AM. At least a dozen employees just working car traffic control for that drive thru. I imagine that is a 24 hour operation at that facility between cleanup and prep.

And for anyone thinking I'm nuts for going there, not many options driving between Eugene and Portland at that hour. Our friends went to a Taco Bell in Eugene that must not have been aware of the existence of the University of Oregon in town, was staffed with about 3 people and also had a hundred plus cars descend on them. In-N-Out was faster than Taco Bell was for them.