Is In-N-Out skipping this guest receipt number when you place your order?
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If you believe the jokers on the Internet, there’s one number In-N-Out customers won’t see on their receipt — the number 69.
For the record:
2:35 p.m. April 25, 2025A previous version of this article failed to note that the speculation about In-N-Out not using order number 69 originated from a parody account. The story has been updated with more context.
In a parody social media post, an account that focuses on news about the famous restaurant said “In-N-Out will not give you guest number 69 on your receipt. After guest number 68, it will skip to guest number 70.”
Is this true? We don’t know because the company has not responded for comment.
But the question has been the subject speculation for years — and not just at In-N-Out.
A video from a McDonalds showed teenage patrons cheering when the order number was called at a crowded restaurant.
Skipping certain numbers is not unheard of. Many hotels, residential buildings and offices will skip the 13th floor due to the superstitious belief that the number is bad luck. They’ll label the 13th floor a different number or go from 12 to 14.
Some In-N-Out customers were discreetly using a hack to get a discount on one of the chain’s secret menu items, known as the “Flying Dutchman.”
One man from Tennessee found the number “666” on his W-2 tax form and immediately quit his job.
“I cannot accept this number. If you accept that number, you sell your soul to the devil,” Walter Slonopas, 52, who was a maintenance worker at Contech Casting LLC, told ABC News.
