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"I had a moment of excitement when a sign appeared on a downtown building in Salem announcing that the cult California burger chain would be setting up shop, but In-N-Out confirmed to the Oregonian that the sign was a fake. It didn’t exactly scream “hoax”—it looked like a color print-out on letter-sized paper, stapled onto some plywood—but the more interesting part was that the company’s Vice President of Operations told the paper his team has scouted Salem and “looked at and evaluated a few sites”; he said they had not looked at the site with the sign and that it was “too early to speculate” about if or when there would be any opening (and it certainly won’t be opening this June). Any expansion to Salem would be a drastic jump north from the chain’s two Oregon locations in Medford and Grants Pass, and because In‑N‑Out has a policy of not freezing its food (including for deliveries), new locations must be within reach of a distribution center—no more than 300 miles, according to Business Insider—so while the company has clearly said it’s interested in expanding further into Oregon, a Salem opening would likely be some way off." - Tim Forster