What Happened to Squeeze Inn After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 1, Episode 7 Aired June 11, 2007

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited The Squeeze Inn in the 'Burgers' episode (S1E7), aired 2007-06-11, spotlighting the drive-through stand's hamburgers wrapped in a crispy fried 'cheese skirt.' The Squeeze Inn operated as a burger restaurant at 5301 Power Inn Road in Sacramento. Yelp listings tied to that address, for a business later shown as 'Squeeze Burger' and for a 'Squeeze Inn Truck,' were both updated in July 2026 marked permanently closed. The restaurant's original web domain, thesqueezeinn.com, is now a parked page listed for sale through HugeDomains rather than an active restaurant site. Research turned up a Squeeze Inn-branded burger spot operating nearby, though that location's relationship to the original Power Inn Road business was not independently confirmed here.

Food Paradise, Season 4, Episode 19 Aired 2013

On Food Paradise's 2013 episode 'Cheese Paradise' (Travel Channel), the show visited Squeeze Inn in Sacramento, California, spotlighting the diner's signature 'Squeeze with cheese' burger, topped with a slice of cheese plus a crisped, burnt-cheese skirt fried onto the patty. Squeeze Inn opened in 1975, originally on Elvas Avenue near C Street before relocating to the corner of Fruitridge and Power Inn Road, and for years operated as an eleven-stool diner of about 450 square feet. The restaurant gained national attention after Guy Fieri featured it on Food Network's 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives' in 2007, naming the cheeseburger among the best in the country; the brand later expanded into separately branded 'Squeeze Burger' locations and a food truck operating since 2010.