Cook Out in
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How many Cook Out locations are in Virginia?

Virginia has 42 open Cook Out restaurants in 35 cities and towns, according to Cook Out’s store locator (October 2026). Norfolk has the most, with three stores; Virginia Beach, Fredericksburg and Roanoke have two each. Most open at 10:30 AM and close around 3 AM on weeknights and 4 AM on weekends.

All 42 Virginia locations

Every open Virginia Cook Out is listed below, grouped into eight regions from east to west. Addresses come from Cook Out’s store locator (October 2026). Four more stores are listed as coming soon further down this page — they are not serving food yet, so they are not counted in the 42.

Use the region tables to find your store, then match the street address before you start driving. A city can have more than one Cook Out, and a “Richmond” mailing address does not always mean the store is inside Richmond city limits.

South Hampton Roads — 8 stores

Eight stores cover Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth and Suffolk. Most sit within a mile of an interstate exit, which makes this the easiest region for a tray on the way to or from Naval Station Norfolk, NAS Oceana or the Oceanfront. Norfolk alone has three stores.

Virginia Peninsula & Middle Peninsula — 4 stores

Four stores run up the Peninsula from Hampton to Williamsburg and across the York River to Gloucester. Hampton and Newport News are both under half a mile from I-64, handy for Langley, Fort Eustis and the shipyards.

Richmond Metro & Tri-Cities — 9 stores

Nine stores ring Richmond through Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover and the Tri-Cities. Only one, 4802 W Broad St near Willow Lawn, sits inside Richmond city limits. The Laburnum Ave and Midlothian Turnpike stores carry Richmond mailing addresses but sit in Henrico and Chesterfield counties.

Northern Virginia & Fredericksburg — 3 stores

Three stores serve the I-95 corridor north of Richmond. Manassas Park is the closest Cook Out to Washington, D.C., and both Fredericksburg-area stores sit within a mile of I-95.

Charlottesville & Shenandoah Valley — 6 stores

Six stores line the I-81 and I-64 corridors from Winchester to Lexington, plus Charlottesville on US-29. Winchester, Harrisonburg and Staunton are all a quick hop off I-81, which makes this the go-to stretch for road-trippers and for students at UVA, JMU, VMI and Washington and Lee.

Lynchburg & Southside — 5 stores

Five stores serve Lynchburg, Amherst County and Southside Virginia. US-29 ties together Danville, Lynchburg and Madison Heights, while Farmville sits on US-460 and Collinsville on US-220 north of Martinsville.

Roanoke Valley — 4 stores

Four stores cover Roanoke, Salem and Franklin County. Hershberger Rd is the north-side stop off I-581, Franklin Rd serves southwest Roanoke, and US-220 runs south to Rocky Mount.

New River Valley & Southwest — 3 stores

Three stores cover the New River Valley and the Tennessee line. Blacksburg serves Virginia Tech, the Lee Hwy store in Fairlawn sits across the New River from Radford University, and Bristol is a quick stop off I-81 exit 7.

How Virginia’s stores are spread out

The stores cluster in three places. Hampton Roads holds 12 of the 42 — eight around Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth and Suffolk, plus four more up the Peninsula in Hampton, Newport News, Williamsburg and Gloucester. The Richmond metro and the Tri-Cities hold nine more. The rest run down the I-81 corridor through the Shenandoah and Roanoke valleys, with a handful on US-29 and I-95 in between.

Norfolk has the most stores of any Virginia city, with three. Virginia Beach, Fredericksburg and Roanoke have two each. Richmond has three stores with Richmond mailing addresses, but only one — 4802 W Broad St near Willow Lawn — is inside city limits. The other two sit in Henrico and Chesterfield counties.

The edges of the map tell the same story as the middle. Winchester, at 1551 S Pleasant Valley Rd off I-81 exit 313, is the northernmost store. Manassas Park, at 8502 Centreville Rd, is the closest Cook Out to Washington, D.C. — budget 30 to 60 minutes from Fairfax, Arlington or Alexandria depending on I-66 traffic. Bristol, at 3128 Lee Hwy off I-81 exit 7, is the farthest west. Virginia Beach’s General Booth Blvd store is the farthest east. Loudoun County has no Cook Out at all, so Winchester (about 45 minutes west of Leesburg) and Manassas Park are the nearest options for that whole county.

Which Virginia Cook Out is closest to you

Find your area in the table to see the nearest store and the simplest way to get there. In Hampton Roads and Richmond you can usually choose between two stores, so check traffic before you leave — especially near the tunnels.

If your area is not listed, pick the nearest big city or interstate exit and work from there. The directory above has every address, so the table below covers the places people ask about most.

Virginia hours: the late-night pattern

Most Virginia Cook Outs open at 10:30 AM and close around 3 AM Sunday through Thursday and around 4 AM on Friday and Saturday. Hours vary by store, so check the location before a late drive, especially on holidays.

After about 10 PM most stores serve the drive-thru only, so bring a car if you can. Most Virginia stores have a drive-thru plus a walk-up window and little or no indoor seating. College-town stores like Blacksburg, Harrisonburg and Charlottesville are often busiest after midnight on weekends and on game nights, so expect a line around 1 AM.

Two stores run earlier than the pattern, according to their local listings. Waynesboro, at 1432 W Main St, closes at 1 AM. Harrisonburg, at 1688 E Market St, closes at 2 AM. Blacksburg usually stays open until about 3 AM on weeknights and 4 AM on weekends. For the full picture, including holidays, see our late-night hours guide and the 2026 holiday hours page.

What a Virginia Cook Out costs

A Regular Tray — one main, two sides and a drink — runs about $7.99 on Virginia boards, with the Jr. Tray lower. Milkshakes run about $3.99, with 40-plus flavors. Prices vary a little from store to store, and the menu is the same one served in North Carolina. See our 2026 price guide for the full ranges and the boards behind them.

First time at a Virginia Cook Out? Start with a Regular Tray: a Big Double Cook Out Style, hushpuppies and onion rings, and swap the drink for a shake. That is the order the chain is built around, and it shows off the two things Virginia does best at a drive-thru — char-grilled burgers and chopped pork barbecue. Most stores take both cash and cards.

The value story lands harder in Virginia than in most states because the chain has been here since 2010. Regulars have watched the Tray price barely move while everything else inflated, and the late-night hours mean the same board serves lunch, dinner and the 2 AM crowd.

Campus and base stops

Most of Virginia’s big campuses have a Cook Out within a few miles, and the large military bases in Hampton Roads and the Tri-Cities do too. With most stores open until 3 or 4 AM, they are a regular late-night stop for students, shift workers and service members.

Virginia Tech students use the Blacksburg store at 1311 S Main St, about a mile and a half south of the core of campus. Radford students cross the New River to 7400 Lee Hwy in Fairlawn. The University of Virginia crowd uses 1254 Emmet St N on US-29, just north of Barracks Road Shopping Center, a short drive from the Corner and John Paul Jones Arena.

James Madison University has 1688 E Market St by I-81 exit 247, east of campus on the same US-33 corridor as Valley Mall. Liberty University has 2629 Wards Rd close to its main campus, with the Madison Heights store across the James River serving Amherst County. VMI and Washington and Lee share the Lexington store at 445 E Nelson St, on US-60 just east of downtown. William & Mary has 1660 Richmond Rd, about two miles west of campus on US-60.

VCU and the University of Richmond use 4802 W Broad St near Willow Lawn, the closest store to the Fan and VCU’s Monroe Park campus. Longwood, Mary Washington and Randolph-Macon each have a store close to campus: Farmville at 1437 S Main St, Fredericksburg at 2024 Plank Rd and Ashland at 800 England St.

On the military side, 720 E Little Creek Rd and 1105 N Military Hwy serve the Norfolk side of Naval Station Norfolk, and 1634 General Booth Blvd is the nearest store to NAS Oceana and Dam Neck. Hampton at 1025 W Mercury Blvd and Newport News at 12471 Jefferson Ave serve Joint Base Langley-Eustis. Hopewell’s Oaklawn Blvd store sits on the Route 36 approach to Fort Lee.

Road-trip stops right off the interstate

Thirteen Virginia Cook Outs sit about a mile or less from an interstate exit, spread across I-81, I-95, I-64, I-264 and I-581. The table below gives the exit and the approximate driving distance from the ramp.

I-81 drivers heading from Tennessee toward Pennsylvania can stop at Bristol, Staunton, Harrisonburg and Winchester. Salem, Radford and Fairlawn, Lexington and the Roanoke stores are a short drive off the interstate. I-95 drivers on the way from North Carolina to D.C. have Colonial Heights, Ashland and the two Fredericksburg stores. There is no Cook Out on I-95 north of Fredericksburg, so plan ahead before the Woodbridge and Springfield traffic. US-29 works as a Cook Out corridor too, passing through Danville, Lynchburg, Madison Heights and Charlottesville. On the coast, US-17 connects Gloucester with the future Yorktown store, and US-220 runs past Collinsville and Rocky Mount toward Roanoke.

Coming soon: four more Virginia stores

As of October 2026, Cook Out’s locator lists four Virginia stores as coming soon. None have announced opening dates, and they are not included in the 42-store count above.

Virginia Beach gets a third store at 1010 Independence Blvd, a former KFC that was sold to Cook Out in 2021. Chesapeake’s Western Branch gets one at 3216 Western Branch Blvd. Yorktown gets one at 4340 George Washington Memorial Pkwy in York County. South Boston gets one at 3616 Old Halifax Rd in Halifax County.

Once all four open, Virginia will have 46 stores. Hampton Roads would grow to 15, and South Boston would fill a gap on US-58 between Danville and the Clarksville and South Hill area.

How Virginia got its Cook Outs

Morris Reaves founded Cook Out in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1989. The chain has been growing in Virginia since at least 2010, when its first Richmond-area store opened on Eastridge Road in Henrico. The milestones below come from local news coverage of the openings.

December 2010 brought the first Richmond-area Cook Out, on Eastridge Rd in western Henrico. A second Richmond store followed in summer 2011 at 4802 W Broad St near Staples Mill Rd, in a former Bullets building. Blacksburg and Radford opened in late 2011, putting Cook Out within reach of Virginia Tech and Radford University. Lynchburg opened in March 2012, Harrisonburg followed soon after, and Danville opened in October 2012.

In 2013 Cook Out bought a former Wells Fargo branch at 4300 S Laburnum Ave in eastern Henrico for its third Richmond store. Collinsville opened in September 2019 in Henry County, serving the Martinsville area. Winchester opened in December 2021 at 1551 S Pleasant Valley Rd, the northernmost Virginia store. In 2022 Cook Out bought a former Long John Silver’s at 2809 Franklin Rd for Roanoke’s second store, and Manassas Park — Northern Virginia’s first store — held its ribbon-cutting on November 4.

Many Virginia Cook Outs moved into former fast-food buildings: Long John Silver’s sites in Charlottesville, Madison Heights and Roanoke, and a Captain D’s in Short Pump. By 2026 the locator showed 42 open stores and four coming soon — and the chain is still the North Carolina original that crossed the border in 2010 and never really stopped.