We went to In-N-Out Burger for a field trip today and had a great time learning about this family owned burger joint that’s quite popular in California.  They are working to expand to other states in the near future.  I was quite impressed by their efforts in using every thing fresh from lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, buns, to beef!  We were told that they have their own cows and butchers.  Now, that’s impressive! Even their buns are better because they take 12 hours to bake.  The manager gave us a demonstration by smashing the buns hard with his hands.  Most other commercial buns would stay flat, but with the In-N-Out buns, they slowly rise up to their original shape.  That was pretty cool.

If you’re a regular In-N-Out customer, you most likely know about their secret menu like animal style burgers (grilled onions with extra lettuce and tomato) or protein style burgers (burgers wrapped with lettuce instead of buns for the Atkin diet folks), etc.  These interesting twists to these burgers came from the customers and In-N-Out is happy to accommodate and allow these customizations.

The kids had their hands in slicing potatoes:

Don’t under estimate this little beany of ours.  She may be small, but she can smash that potato masher down and hard.  She surprised the employees there.

After the tour, In-N-Out was very kind and generous in letting us order anything we wanted to eat for FREE!!!  Here are the kids enjoying their meal.  By the way, I got a burger too because I was a chaperone.