In-N-Out Burger has quietly removed the number 67 from its order ticket system after repeated chaos caused by teenagers reacting to the viral “6-7” trend, employees and customers say.
The California-based chain made the change about a month ago, according to a worker at a Los Angeles location who confirmed the move to PEOPLE this week. The system now jumps directly from 66 to 68.
“We have taken 67 out of our system, so whenever we’re taking orders, it goes 66 to 68 because of people like you,” one employee told a customer in a video that later went viral, Fox 4 KDFW reported.
The same location has also eliminated 69 from the sequence for similar reasons, the employee said.
The disruptions began when crowds of teens flooded In-N-Out restaurants nationwide, waiting for order 67 to be called over the loudspeaker. When the number was announced, groups would erupt, shouting “6-7!” while making a hand gesture resembling a scale.
The phrase, often written simply as “6-7,” gained traction through rapper Skrilla’s song “Doot Doot (6 7)” and Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball, who is 6-foot-7 and helped popularize the term.
Dictionary.com named “6-7” its 2025 Word of the Year in October, calling it “a viral, ambiguous slang term” that exemplifies “brainrot slang” — deliberately nonsensical and absurd. The entry notes that some use it to mean “so-so” while waggling both palms up and down like a balance.
Steve Johnson, director of lexicography for the Dictionary Media Group at IXL Learning, described the term as “part inside joke, part social signal and part performance,” Fox 4 reported.
In-N-Out is not the first fast-food chain to respond to the viral trend. Wendy’s offered 67-cent Frostys and Pizza Hut sold 67-cent wings in November, leaning into the meme rather than fighting it.
The corporate office for In-N-Out did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
