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Nearly one year after announcing the closing of the only In-N-Out Burger location in Oakland, California, company President Lynsi Snyder revealed what led to the decision.
Speaking with PragerU host Marissa Streit, Snyder detailed how “dangerous” the location had become for staff and the “huge” decision to shutter a store for the first time in the food chain’s nearly eight-decade history.
“It was just absolutely dangerous. There was, out of 365 days, almost 300 days there was some type of event,” Snyder said of the closure, citing rampant crime in the California city that forced the restaurant to close in March.
NEW: In-N-Out owner says she was forced to close their Oakland location because there was a crime almost every day, says the closure was the only one in 75 years.
Oakland is a great litmus test for what happens when you let liberals control an entire city for an extended period… pic.twitter.com/tPpydx8zdP
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 25, 2024
“Car burglaries, violence, fights, theft, you name it,” said the businesswoman who is the only grandchild of Harry and Esther Snyder, who founded the eatery in 1948. “There was actually gunshots [that] went through the store, there was a stabbing, there was a lot.”
“And you’ve never shut a restaurant down so this must have been pretty hard,” Streit noted.
“It was huge,” Snyder affirmed. “But, for the safety of our associates, we just felt like, this is not okay.”
“The amount of time it would take the police to get there, too, was alarming,” she added.
A series of NBC reports in 2023 found that “Oakland’s 911 wait times were the worst out of any city or county’s 911 center in the state. Its average wait times were commonly three to four times higher than the state mandate.”
NEW: Police take 9 hours to respond after an Oakland, California gas station gets raided by dozens of thugs.
Oakland is practically a third-world country.
70 looters robbed a gas station on Friday morning, causing approximately $100,000 in losses.
An even more insane fact… pic.twitter.com/VaAJ1fla25
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 6, 2024
Small business owners in Oakland were fed up with rampant crime and threatened to stop paying their taxes unless officials did something to turn things around. Back in 2023, over 200 Oakland business owners took part in a one-day “strike” to protest, shutting their doors for a period of time to bring attention to the lack of action by city officials.
Oakland business owners threaten to stop paying taxes over high crime: ‘We’re all in the same boat’ https://t.co/fLx10J3W02 via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) March 12, 2024
At the announced closing of the In-N-Out Burger location in January, COO Denny Warnick said the company took “repeated steps to create safer conditions,” but staff and customers were still “regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft, and armed robberies.”
“We are grateful for the local community, which has supported us for over 18 years, and we recognize that this closure negatively impacts our Associates and their families,” Warnick said at the time. “Additionally, this location remains a busy and profitable one for the company, but our top priority must be the safety and well-being of our Customers and Associates – we cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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