In-N-Out opening in Tennessee along with an eastern headquarters in Nashville area

As far as I know they have regional HQ's. Colorado Springs has HQ for the CO, which will end up with, I think, 50 restaurants.
Having Estern HQ makes sense, considering how they do business.
 
I went when i was in Colorado. It didn't meet the hype IMO but it wasn't bad (thought it was better than McD's not as good as 5 guys) and the price was "who do you think you are, Chic Fil A?"
 
My wife grew up in Morristown and it's supposed to get one at some point. She said we'll have to take a roadtrip back up there when they get it. I said good, we can stop at the Buc-ees in Sevierville. Running low on Beaver Nuggets and garlic beef jerky.
 
Where I live in KC there is a Steak N Shake that is fantastic. Never a lukewarm burger or cold fries. This place is run like a well oiled machine. Freddy's is across the street and it is horrible and twice as expensive. With all of the Smashburger hype these days, didn't Steak N Shake invent/do that decades ago?
 
dishdude said:
I ate there once, I wasn't impressed at all, reminded me of McDonald's.
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Look at their menu and at McD's first menu. We didn't think it anything special but the one here is always busy.



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They're fine, but like every other chain that proliferates across the nation, quality suffers while prices go up. It used to be a rare treat to visit In & Out when visiting California. Now they're appearing everywhere. Same goes for Five Guys - which 20 years ago used to be a nice place to go when in the DC area. Ditto for Raising Canes, which was only found in Louisiana, and in the 1980s Culver's was only in small-town Wisconsin. Now they're all rather boring, and I'll pass.

While the spread is good for business - and that's OK - the drawback is what it's done to the national landscape. Many of these places made their cities unique. Today a person could be blindfolded and dropped in any major city...and they wouldn't know if they were in Bangor, Maine or Walla Walla, Washington. "Hey kids, look! There's Chili's! And Applebees! And Culver's! And Five Guys! Wow!"
 
DuckRyder said:
I went when i was in Colorado. It didn't meet the hype IMO but it wasn't bad (thought it was better than McD's not as good as 5 guys) and the price was "who do you think you are, Chic Fil A?"
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My first time was in the 90s. Seen them before in Southern California but never went. The wait was long, and back then they asked for names when ordering and would call the name out. Back then a hamburger might have been less than $1.
 
Capt W said:
They're fine, but like every other chain that proliferates across the nation, quality suffers while prices go up. It used to be a rare treat to visit In & Out when visiting California. Now they're appearing everywhere. Same goes for Five Guys - which 20 years ago used to be a nice place to go when in the DC area. Ditto for Raising Canes, which was only found in Louisiana, and in the 1980s Culver's was only in small-town Wisconsin. Now they're all rather boring, and I'll pass.
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That's how it's is with Portillos once Berkshire bought it out and expanded out of state. Most of the items went from good Chicago-style fast food to substandard yuck that hand out wrong orders 90% of the time after 15 minutes of waiting.

Giordanos is starting to fall the same way; although Giordanos is on the bottom of my chicago pizza list.
 
Pew said:
That's how it's is with Portillos once Berkshire bought it out and expanded out of state. Most of the items went from good Chicago-style fast food to substandard yuck that hand out wrong orders 90% of the time after 15 minutes of waiting.

Giordanos is starting to fall the same way; although Giordanos is on the bottom of my chicago pizza list.
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Another great example! I used to live in the NW Suburbs and fondly remember the two-story Portillos on Taylor & Canal. Now we have one outside of Houston. Kinda subtracts from the Chicago charm a bit...
 
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Ate there one time somewhere between Dallas and McKinney, TX. Was decent, but nothing to get excited over. Then again, how exciting should burgers and fries be?
 
wavinwayne said:
Ate there one time somewhere between Dallas and McKinney, TX. Was decent, but nothing to get excited over. Then again, how exciting should burgers and fries be?
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For me the thing about it was the value and the quality of the ingredients. They always used never-frozen meat and it was always cooked to order. Fresh meat makes a bit of difference, but not having a patty that's been in a warming tray for an hour makes a lot of difference. And it was cheap. Not sure when this was, but I would guess around 2005.

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But it was never mind-blowing. It was good at an affordable price.
 
Capt W said:
Another great example! I used to live in the NW Suburbs and fondly remember the two-story Portillos on Taylor & Canal. Now we have one outside of Houston. Kinda subtracts from the Chicago charm a bit...
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It's still there! They have even opened up a few Portillos to-go around the suburbs where it's drive thru-only. Luckily we still have a lot of mom-and-pop hamburger places around. Jims off S Union is still there too; Maxwell's got renamed to Express Grill.
 
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