Food lovers were forced to say goodbye to another In-N-Out franchise in California earlier this week… at least temporarily.
The iconic In-N-Out Burger location on Sunset Boulevard and North Orange Drive in Hollywood – a popular post-Oscars hangout for many a celebrity – announced that the restaurant would be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday ‘for routine termite treatment and prevention.’
The Hollywood In-N-Out Burger had a tent over the restaurant and it was fenced off on Tuesday, KTLA 5 reported.
The shut down was announced weeks after the Oakland, California location would be closing after 18 years due to the area’s rising crime rate.
However, the Hollywood In-N-Out Burger is set to re-open today at 1:30 pm local time.
The In-N-Out Burger on Sunset Boulevard and North Orange Drive in Hollywood announced that the restaurant will be closed on March 12 and 13
The Hollywood In-N-Out Burger had a tent over the restaurant, and it was fenced off on Tuesday
The shut down was announced weeks after the Oakland, California, location would be closing after 18 years due to the area’s rising crime rate
The In-N-Out Burger in Hollywood is one of the fast-food chain’s 286 restaurants in California, all of which are open seven days a week.
The brief shuttering of the Los Angeles store is the second closure to make headlines in the last few weeks.
The announcement of the restaurant closure in Oakland was made in January, and the location will shut its doors permanently on March 24.
It’s the first In-N-Out Burger restaurant in its 75-year history to close for good.
‘We have made the decision to close our In-N-Out Burger location in Oakland, California, due to ongoing issues with crime,’ the company’s chief operations officer, Denny Warnick wrote in a statement.
The franchise confirmed in their sign that the restaurant would be closed due to ‘routine termite treatment and prevention’
The Hollywood restaurant closure comes weeks after officials announced that their Oakland, California location would close for good on March 24
These four stores, including the In-n-Out, near Oakland International Airport are major targets for thieves
‘Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our Customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft, and armed robberies.’
Warnick also wrote that the affected employees ‘will have the opportunity to transfer to a nearby In-N-Out location or, alternatively, receive a severance package.’
Data from Oakland’s police force in January revealed that robberies had increased by a massive 38% from 2022 to 2023.
On top of that, motor vehicle theft in particular saw a major rise, with authorities reporting 44 percent more in 2023 compared with 2022.
Burglaries also jumped 23 percent from the previous year.
The temporary closure of the Hollywood restaurant caused ‘a disappointed customer’ to share their thoughts on X (formerly Twitter), The US Sun was first to report.
Social media users were both upset and unsurprised about the closure and some believe that the termite treatment and prevention is not just a routine
‘That used to be my lunch spot,’ the X user tweeted.
Other social media users have criticized the Hollywood In-N-Out location in the comments of KTLA 5’s Facebook and YouTube posts.
Many YouTubers who watched the video wrote about their concerns over the restaurants’ ‘termites’ in the comment section, and one user even believes that closing down a store for ‘treatment’ is not ‘routine.’
‘Well at least their on top of their inspections,’ a YouTuber commented.
Another commenter wrote: ‘Routine fumigation in a restaurant? Not a good sign.’
