Update: New details of In-N-Out Burger’s just-disclosed 2nd Boise-area restaurant
Are your taste buds watering yet?
A month after In-N-Out Burger filed plans to open in Meridian, another In-N-Out restaurant is in the works in Boise.
The Irvine, California-based fast food restaurant chain is making plans to open a restaurant where Pier 1 Imports used to be at 140 N. Milwaukee St., near the Boise Towne Square mall and the northeast corner of North Milwaukee Street and West Franklin Road. It would be the chain’s second in Idaho.
In-N-Out and city officials held a pre-application meeting on April 21. The company presented a site plan. The restaurant would take up 3,885 square feet, and the entire site is 0.86 acres. Plans call for 74 seats indoors and 20 outdoors. The drive-thru would have space for 30 cars.
In-N-Out filed an application with the city of Boise for a neighborhood meeting list on Monday.
Last month, In-N-Out applied to open at 3520 E. Fairview Ave. at The Village at Meridian.
“Onsite vehicle circulation is excellent, with no ‘dead-end’ parking aisles, and includes driveway access to the Boise Towne Square mall ring road,” In-N-Out wrote in a project description.
The vacant former Pier 1 Imports building is planned to be demolished to make way for the restaurant. Construction will take approximately six months, In-N-Out said. The restaurant plans to be open from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
“As soon as the drive-through queue reaches the eighth or ninth car (where the menu board/order speaker is located), In-N-Out Associates are deployed outside to take orders using handheld ordering tablets,” In-N-Out wrote. “The use of these tablets puts orders into the kitchen faster than ordering at the menu board, and, when combined with increased production from the third grill, the result is extremely fast and efficient food production with the shortest possible food wait times, and therefore the shortest possible drive-through vehicle queues.”
As the Treasure Valley’s population swells, so has the hunger for the popular burger joint most closely associated with California.
In 2017, an Idaho Statesman poll asked, “Which chain restaurant should come to Boise?” In-N-Out received an overwhelming 44% of the vote while the next closest was White Castle with 8%. There are no In-N-Out locations in Idaho yet. You’d have to go to Utah or Oregon to get your double-double fix.
In-N-Out’s Todd Smith, who is listed as the proposal’s applicant, declined to comment Monday.
This story was originally published April 26, 2022 at 7:31 PM.
