In-N-Out is heading home.
California’s most famous burger joint, based in Irvine, will move its headquarters back to Baldwin Park, where its founders opened their first drive-through restaurant in 1948, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The shift from Orange County to L.A. County’s San Gabriel Valley will take place before 2029, when the company plans to shutter its Irvine hub.
“I know my family would be in support of this move because it brings our In-N-Out family back together in a way that helps us better serve our customers, who are the most important priority,” Lynsi Snyder, owner and president of In-N-Out, and granddaughter of the couple that founded it, said in a statement.
The popular burger chain, known for Animal-Style burgers and fries and drive-through lines stretching down the street, opened its Irvine headquarters in 1994.
When it closes, Snyder said some of its corporate workers will relocate to Baldwin Park, while others will make the cross-country trip to Tennessee, where the company is now building a second corporate office that’s slated to open next year.
In-N-Out founder Harry Snyder opened its first headquarters less than a mile from his first burger restaurant in Baldwin Park. It still has employees at that office, according to the Times.
The fast-growing chain now has more than 400 red-and-yellow stands in California, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, Colorado and Idaho.
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