The days of driving to Utah, California or Nevada for your In-N-Out Burger fix are over.

In-N-Out, the iconic California burger joint with the stylized yellow arrow logo, has opened the doors to its first restaurant in Idaho, located at The Village at Meridian.

Undoubtedly, In-N-Out’s arrival at The Village will bring waves of Double-Double aficionados and animal-style enthusiasts in the first days and months. Traffic on Eagle Road and Fairfield Avenue will almost certainly be exceptionally heavy — from the restaurant’s opening to closing each day. And for a while the drive-thru line is bound to wind through the parking lot and go on for as far as the eye can see.

When In-N-Out opened in 2022 in Logan, Utah, Fox 13 of Salt Lake City reported that a man and his son waited in line for three days to be the first customers. The wait was a staggering 14 hours for a burger and fries, according to police in Aurora, Colorado, on In-N-Out’s opening day in 2020.

Idahoans must be excited, too. The Times-News in August published an update on In-N-Out construction; it was the most-read story on magicvalley.com in 2023 — more than tripling the readership of any other story, whether news, sports or opinion.

The Meridian restaurant, at 3520 E. Fairview Ave., will have seating for 84 guests indoors and 32 outdoors, along with parking for 47 cars.

It won’t likely stand alone in Idaho for too long. In-N-Out will build a second restaurant about seven miles away at Boise Towne Square, where the burger chain will demolish a former Pier 1 Imports building, BoiseDev reported in March. There was no signage to indicate In-N-Out’s arrival, nor any signs of construction.

Construction would take approximately six months, BoiseDev reported.

A third In-N-Out is planned in the Treasure Valley, according to a pre-application request submitted to the City of Nampa for the property at 16225 N. Marketplace Blvd., BoiseDev reported in June. That restaurant would be located on the site of a former TGI Fridays that would be demolished to make space for In-N-Out.

When the Times-News asked In-N-Out about potential expansion plans deeper into Idaho, Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick wouldn’t bite: “We are still in the early stages of our development plans in Idaho,” he said in August.

In-N-Out, which started as a simple hamburger stand near Los Angeles in 1948, has since expanded from California to six other states (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Texas and Utah) while growing to include nearly 400 restaurants.

The first restaurants east of the Mississippi River are planned in Tennessee, likely by 2025, In-N-Out announced in January.