In-N-Out Burger on Mill Plain in Vancouver set to open Thursday
Vancouver's first In-N-Out Burger is set to open Thursday.
The beloved California burger chain announced the opening date for its newest location at 13511 S.E. Third Way Wednesday morning, almost two years after In-N-Out submitted planning documents to the city of Vancouver.
In-N-Out Burger locations are open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. and until 1:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. New locations have been known to open early on their first day.
In-N-Out expects to employ about 100 people at its Vancouver location and will continue to hire in the months to come, the company said Wednesday.
The restaurant, famous for its "animal style" offerings, affordable made-to-order hamburgers and not-so-secret secret menu, drew enormous crowds when it opened its first Washington location in Ridgefield last summer.
Despite fears about In-N-Out causing congestion in the still largely rural community, customer traffic didn't back up onto Ridgefield's main roads.
Vancouverites have expressed their own concerns that burger traffic will impact surrounding businesses and medical offices and traffic flow on Mill Plain Boulevard. City officials, however, aren't as concerned.
"What we learned is In-N-Out really, really cares about what happens during their grand opening with regards to traffic," Ryan Lopossa, transportation manager for the city of Vancouver, told The Columbian in January. "They don't want to see it messy."
The company wants customers to get through the lines and get out as efficiently as possible, Lopossa said.
The business's traffic plan involves directing drive-thru traffic to the north end of Southeast Stone Mill Drive, entering from Northeast 136th Avenue. Cars will be kept on that road while they wait to get into the main drive-thru line but not impeding the driveways for surrounding businesses.
Dine-in traffic will be directed to Southeast Third Way, also entering from Northeast 136th Avenue.
Traffic control employees will be onsite directing cars and "No In-N-Out Parking" signs are sprinkled at parking lots throughout the area.
"If the drive-thru line fills up back to 136th Avenue, they will close off that entrance and direct their drive-thru customers to an overflow lot located in the old Safeway parking lot on the south side of Mill Plain Blvd.," Lopossa said in an email Thursday.
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This story was originally published April 22, 2026 at 5:58 PM.