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Posted on 07/14/2026 3:34:02 PM PDT by KingofZion
A California city is moving to enact a permanent ban on new drive-thru restaurants, spurred on by a group of vocal locals who have organized to oppose a potential new In-N-Out location.
While many other cities (and states) openly court the privately owned, Southern California-founded burger chain in hopes of attracting its business, Culver City isn’t swayed by the scent of animal-style fries and mustard-grilled Double-Doubles. The stand-alone city within Los Angeles County voted on Monday to extend a recently enacted 45-day moratorium on any new drive-thrus for another 10.5 months, giving city officials a long enough runway to draft permanent legislation that will keep drive-thrus out of the city for good.
That legislation, now in the works, will still need to be put through a planning commission hearing and then finalized, approved and enacted before the end of the current moratorium — but for now, it seems as though Culver City’s no-drive-thru plan is only a matter of time.
The call to change Culver City’s drive-thru laws started when a group of area residents banded together to oppose a potential new In-N-Out location at the Studio Village Shopping Center at the corner of Sepulveda Boulevard and Sawtelle Boulevard. The burger chain has been holding community meetings about the proposed site since early February, showing renderings for a familiar red-and-white, nearly 4,000-square-foot restaurant with a 61-space parking lot and a drive-thru capable of holding 26 cars at a time. Locals showed up to that February meeting in droves, offering mostly disapproval at the notion of a busy drive-thru in their part of town.
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fine ... open a new in-n-out right outside a culver city border in any one of the 8-9 “cities” that border culver city ... let one of THEM have the new tax revenue ...
They probably don’t have a Culver’s either.
The first Culver’s was built in Sauk City, Wisconsin.
Perhaps Culver City has a Sauk’s Restauarant.
😅
Culver’s has intentionally stayed out of CA (like Cracker Barrel WAS doing before the new private equity CEO)...Culver’s has locations right on the border of CA, just not “in state”.
https://www.culvers.com/locator?location=arizona&state=true
(California city decides to ban drive-thrus
entirely rather than approve new In-N-Out)
I’ll tell you a major reason... IMHO
In-N-Out PUTS BIBLE VERSES ON THEIR PACKAGING
Yes
It’s only Bible Book and Verse Number Reference
The daughter of the founders inhererited the business. She is a sharp business person and has principals. And faith.
In-N-Out is on the sh^t list of progressives because she is keeping up her parent’s practice of putting references to Bible verses on their cups.
It’s not a new practice, apparently, but has drawn the political ire of those who think they can tell her how to run a business in their progrssive manner.
She’s sticking to what made In-n-Out one of the most successful fast food chains in the country.
And that’s the really real why this location is being blocked.
A dump with no tasty burgers on the go.
She is actually the GRANDdaughter of the founders. Her father inherited the chain and then died in a plane crash, leaving Linsey (sp?) as the sole owner of the whole shooting match.
> In-N-Out PUTS BIBLE VERSES ON THEIR PACKAGING
Hit the nail on the head.
Linsey is the founders’ granddaughter. They had two sons.
Bubba Fish, Culver City’s vice mayor and the primary backer of the ban, told SFGATE that he’s not against In-N-Out itself. Rather, he’s got beef with drive-thrus in dense urban and suburban residential areas overall.
“I heard from so many residents that they were really, deeply concerned about this In-N-Out; the impacts on traffic, but also air quality from the idling cars,” Fish said. “The more I looked into it, I saw that there were other health impacts. Neighborhoods around these fast food drive-thrus experience higher rates of heart disease and diabetes, heart failure [and] other illnesses.”
Sounds like nimbyism to me. Build one just beyond the city border and watch Culver City residents flock to it. All that car exhaust from idling engines ain't gonna stay on the other side of the city limits. LOL.
Was Culver City a dump in the late 60’s? That’s the last time I was there, but I was a kid.
Amen!!
Sodom and Gomorrah
San Francisco
ain’t got time for that
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Ephesians 6:12
My dad had restaurants all across the country in business districts, served breakfast, lunch and dinner. His manmager in california called him and said he had to fly out immeditely to see this interesting new restaurant. Mcdonalds.
dad caught the concept immediately and made them a very generous offer to buy it. I’’m still ticked off that they wouldn’t sell. think what an heiress I would be now, big homes on both coasts, private islands, etc. Just damn..
so here I sit very happily living in my senior complex with nice middle-class neighbors and a bitchy cat.
Since I have Sith Lord level sleuthing skills, I went to GoogleMaps street view and looked around the intersection of Sepuveda and Sawtelle in Culver City. It’s a thoroughly commercialized streetscape along the main roads with single family homes taking over a block off those two streets.
There’s a big parking lot at the Studio Village strip mall on one corner and a Jack in the Box across the street. The latter has two cars filling the drive through line in the GoogleMaps photo. The story says the proposed In ‘n Out Burger place would have a 26 car drive through capacity. I suppose scale might be an issue. It looks like a reasonably low density urban area and residents might object to too much densification.
Banning all drive throughs in Culver City, however, sounds like a ridiculous overreaction. I.e., it sounds like exactly the kind of thing that activist groups and bureaucrats with hidden agendas might do.
Big parking lots and plazas that sit empty most of the day, and that are deserted at night, can invite trouble.
(Bubba Fish, Culver City’s vice mayor)
Well, well, well... Whaddya know...🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
AI Overview:
Bryan “Bubba” Fish is the openly LGBTQ+ Vice Mayor of Culver City, California.
He was unanimously appointed to the position by the City Council in December 2025 to serve his term. His selection alongside Mayor Freddy Puza created the first openly LGBTQ+ Mayor and Vice Mayor leadership duo in Culver City’s 108-year history.
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