{"id":365012,"date":"2026-03-25T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365012\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:20:09","slug":"people-queue-for-hours-in-the-cold-as-in-n-out-burger-comes-to-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365012\/","title":{"rendered":"People queue for hours in the cold as In-N-Out Burger comes to Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Not even bitterly cold winds and driving rain off the river Liffey could deter hundreds of people lining up outside the Harbourmaster pub on Wednesday for a taste of sun-kissed California. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/video\/video\/2026\/03\/25\/its-like-a-taste-of-california-large-queue-forms-for-in-n-out-burger\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/video\/video\/2026\/03\/25\/its-like-a-taste-of-california-large-queue-forms-for-in-n-out-burger\/\">queue for the pop-up In-N-Out Burger<\/a> started forming before 9am, more than  two hours before the doors opened. By 10.30am it stretched  200 metres through the financial district, with people from all over the world seemingly happy to endure considerable hardship for a burger. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">But not any old burger. In-N-Out was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/california\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/california\/\">California<\/a> in the 1940s and has been elevated to playing a starring role in movies such as The Big Lebowski and featuring at many Oscar night after-parties. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/michael-b-jordan\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/michael-b-jordan\/\">Michael B Jordan<\/a>, the recent best actor recipient, was the latest winner to rock up for a burger and chips after the glitzy bash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is also beloved of fast-foodies, while even  Gordon Ramsay has praised the chain for selling some of the best burgers he has ever eaten. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The eatery was in Dublin for one day only and people were warned well in advance that the food would be dispensed on a first come, first served basis, with a strict rationing system in place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Such was the demand that the opening was brought forward by at least 30 minutes, and by 10.30am cooks were slinging burgers as fans were admitted in groups of four to place their order. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Maddie Hahm was close to the top of the queue, having joined shortly before 9.30am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI\u2019m from California, so it\u2019s a taste of home,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s something you always get with friends, so I want it when I\u2019m here as well. It\u2019s just the idea of, you know, coming off the beach and getting a burger,\u201d she added as Baltic breezes whipped past. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Maria Borgado from Portugal said she\u2019d \u201cbeen waiting for this my entire life\u201d. When asked what exactly she was waiting for, she said she was \u201cexpecting the greatest burger I have ever had\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"In N Out Burger\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IXIJOUYBLFE45BU5O4S4KJXLPY.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Established in the 1940s, In-N-Out Burger has grown a legendary image in California. Photograph: iStock  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Niamh McCullogh from Cork, but living in the US, had a clearer idea of what was coming her way, having worked as an In-N-Out manager in California for seven years. \u201cMe and my husband are back here for like a month or so and when I saw there was going to be a pop-up I had to come. You never know, I might put the red apron back on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Lucy Draper and Paul Kelly from Dublin were in line too. \u201cI\u2019m here for him, he really wants a burger. We only live across the road so we said we\u2019d pop over. I wasn\u2019t expecting it to be this busy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">For his part, Kelly said he was hoping to right a past wrong. He had two previous chances to have an In-N-Out burger in Las Vegas but admitted he was \u201ctoo drunk to try it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At the back of the line was Megan O\u2019Connell, who said that the last time the pop-up came to town a couple of years ago she was put off by the size of the queue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHopefully the line will move fast and people will be in and out,\u201d she said, adding that she fully expected it to be the best thing she has ever tasted. \u201cI hope so anyways, that is why I am here,\u201d she said and went back to stamping her feet and blowing on her hands to keep out the Irish cold. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not even bitterly cold winds and driving rain off the river Liffey could deter hundreds of people lining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,811,37837,61,60,86117],"class_list":{"0":"post-365012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-dublin-1","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-michael-b-jordan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}