{"id":609,"date":"2025-09-18T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/?p=609"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:25:52","slug":"lets-get-you-to-in-n-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/lets-get-you-to-in-n-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s get you to In-N-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My eight year-old and I were waiting for the school bus this morning when I commented on his t-shirt, which was from the West Coast fast-food chain In-N-Out burger. It is a particularly popular<\/em> chain, appreciated by its fans for its fresh ingredients \u2014\u00a0burgers so good that customers overlook the weird, soggy fries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told him that, when I was in Houston last week, I’d gotten In-N-Out. His response was to briefly express jealousy before asking a valid question: There’s In-N-Out in Texas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll admit that I hadn’t known that either until I was there. In-N-Out’s restaurants are usually clustered, anecdotally because it assures access to those fresh ingredients. Maybe that’s not why; that’s not the point. The point is that I suddenly realized that I didn’t know exactly where In-N-Out could be found. And then I had an interesting thought, given Houston’s location in Texas: Had I eaten at the furthest-east In-N-Out Burger? More intriguingly, had I eaten at the In-N-Out closest to my house<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a job for a guy who is good with data. Happily, I know one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First thing was to find a list of restaurant locations (which the chain publishes online<\/a>) and then to geolocate them (easy enough with Geocod.io<\/a>). And, just like that, I could produce a map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n