In-N-Out Burger is eyeing a limited eastward step beyond its current footprint, with owner and president Lynsi Snyder identifying Arkansas, Mississippi, and Oklahoma as states that could eventually fit the chain’s careful expansion model.
Snyder made the remarks in a nearly 50-minute interview with actor Terry Crews posted on the company’s website to mark its 78th anniversary.
“If you look at the map … there’s Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma. There are some states there that are possibilities,” she said, according to KTLA-TV.
She offered no timeline or formal plans.
The chain’s longstanding insistence on fresh, never-frozen beef drives the deliberate pace. Every restaurant must remain within 500 miles of a primary distribution center, a constraint that has confined most of In-N-Out’s more than 400 locations to the West and Southwest for decades, as listed on the company’s site.
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An East Texas hub made the late-2025 Tennessee openings possible, making it the farthest reach east for the company so far.
Snyder has consistently ranked protecting the company’s culture ahead of rapid growth. In the Crews interview, she stressed the need to be sure “everything is right and that our In-N-Out family is strong” on quality, cleanliness, and friendliness before adding more restaurants.
She has also repeated that she does not expect In-N-Out on the East Coast in her lifetime.
Her own relocation to Tennessee has drawn notice alongside the business moves. Snyder has cited the difficulty of raising a family and running the company in California, along with her Christian faith.
The family briefly considered Colorado before settling on Tennessee.
She has been clear, however, that the company’s California roots are permanent. “It’s impossible. This is where we started, it’s where we are now, and it’s where we’ll always be,” she said in the interview detailed by KTLA.
Because In-N-Out has never pursued ubiquity, each new market still carries appeal for fans outside the West Coast.
The combination of made-to-order burgers, Animal Style fries and a tightly controlled supply chain continues to set the chain apart.
Whether Arkansas, Mississippi, or Oklahoma ultimately join the map remains undecided, but any expansion is likely to follow the same measured pattern that has defined the family-owned business since 1948.
This article originally appeared on The Western Journal and is reposted with permission.
