In-N-Out doesn't publish how many cheeseburgers it sells, per store or in total, so there's no reliable daily figure for a cheeseburger. The company is privately held and releases only broad, general information.
The closest public numbers are revenue estimates. A 2018 Forbes estimate, as quoted in a later Substack analysis, put an average In-N-Out at about $4.5 million in gross annual sales. I couldn't check that against Forbes directly. Turning revenue into burgers would take assumptions I can't back up: the mix of orders (cheeseburgers, Double-Doubles, fries, shakes), the price per item, and how many hours a store is open. Any cheeseburger count you see online is a guess built on those assumptions.
If you want a rough version, the honest route is to pick a revenue figure, a typical order mix and an average price, then show each step, so anyone can change one number and see the result. A Quora answer that attempts this exists, but it is years old and uses its own assumptions.
Ok. Make some assumptions and come up with a figure?
Here is a transparent estimate, with every assumption visible so you can swap in your own numbers.
Assumptions
- Revenue per store: about $4.5 million a year (the 2018 Forbes-based figure from earlier; treat it as a rough anchor, not a verified number).
- Average check per order: about $10 for a mix of burgers, fries and drinks. This is my guess, not a sourced price.
- Share of orders that include a cheeseburger or Double-Double: about 40%. Also a guess; many orders are fries, shakes or drinks, and some are Double-Doubles that I'd count as a burger too.
- Cheeseburger-type items per store per year: $4.5M ÷ $10 = 450,000 orders, times 0.40 = 180,000 burgers a year.
- Per day: 180,000 ÷ 365 ≈ 493 burgers a day.
That's roughly 500 burgers a day per store, plausibly anywhere from about 300 to 800 depending on the order mix and price. The shape of the estimate matters more than the exact figure: if the average check is higher, or fewer orders include a burger, the number falls quickly.
To check it, the one input worth finding is a real average check, from a receipt or a published menu price survey. Changing that single number changes the answer by the same proportion.
