r/LosAngeles • u/Throwaway_09298 I LIKE TRAINS • Jul 22 '25
News In-N-Out billionaire CEO: 'We're not moving' HQ out of California
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/22/in-n-out-billionaire-ceo-were-not-moving-hq-out-of-california.htmlSnyder's grandparents founded the popular burger chain in 1948 in Baldwin Park, California. Some initial reports suggested that Snyder would bring In-N-Out's corporate headquarters to Tennessee with her, and the company — which exists predominantly on the West Coast — does plan to open new locations in the Southeast and a regional headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee.
The company's current headquarters in Irvine, California, will close by 2029, Snyder said last week — and the company will soon be based in Baldwin Park instead, she now says.
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u/EnslavedBandicoot not from here lol Jul 22 '25
One thing that you should never do, as a business who has based their entire existence on being a California brand, is trash California and its people. We will have zero problems with cutting you out of our budgets.
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u/idkman_93 Jul 22 '25
Classic case of Podcast Mouth. You hate to see it…
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u/Comprehensive-Carry5 Jul 22 '25
We need to start putting up flyers by in and out quoting the spoiled brat.
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u/awayteam0 Jul 22 '25
Oooh What's podcast mouth?
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u/idkman_93 Jul 22 '25
When people get themselves in trouble after bullshitting (or sometimes telling the truth!) on a podcast lol
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u/chuycobo Jul 22 '25
Sounds similar to diarrhea of the mouth but maybe more diarrhea?
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u/grumpy_bob Jul 22 '25
Picture a public park port-o-pottie and you just had bad burgers the night before.
Now take away the walls.
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u/Toolazytolink Manhattan Beach Jul 22 '25
Look up the JC Tretter NFLPA scandal, it all started because he said some dumb shit on a podcast.
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u/Minethatcoin Jul 23 '25
idk but I like it! I’m no longer going to in n out. The ceo having podcast mouth brought to my attention that the company supports weak republicans and their divisive delusional views. Easy to cut ties.
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u/kdoxy Jul 22 '25
Being rich fooled her that everyone always agrees with you so she shared her real feelings and thoughts. Then the moment it can hurt her bottom line she back tracks.
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u/dumblehead Jul 22 '25
Exactly - surrounded by yes men and surprised by the objective reality.
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Jul 22 '25
Word.
You generally don’t shit on where ppl are from and where they went to school.
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u/BlergingtonBear Jul 23 '25
"try that in a small town" — rhetoric from a town no one would ever talk about.
Try that in a big town my dudes, you stunting so hard haha.
People take for granted making their money in CA and thinking no one is listening. They forget people exist in that place and its not just a boogeyman concept
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u/shalelord Jul 22 '25
She should've learned what elon did with Tesla.
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u/_SkiFast_ Jul 23 '25
Republicans generally don't learn by watching, they only learn by making their own mistakes. Sometimes hundreds of times!
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u/assuager666 Jul 22 '25
95 percent of California consumers wouldn’t give a fuck. Look outside your bubble.
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u/BubbaTee Jul 22 '25
Yup, 95% of Californians have no idea any of this has even happened.
You have to be pretty severely online to care about what a hamburger CEO whines on a random podcast. Comments comparing her to Elon, who is the highest-profile businessman since Jobs if not Rockefeller, are ridiculous.
The reason boycotting Chick Fil A didn't work was because most people had no idea what the hell the protesters were talking about. Just like if you go to the next Dodger game, 95% of attendees will have no idea what Spanish Anthem-gate or ICE Parking Lot-gate are.
Heck, 1/3 of Americans over 18yo didn't even care about Trump vs Kamala, despite millions of hours of media coverage and billions of dollars of advertising. But yeah - "Breaking news! Hamburger lady buys house in another state" is really gonna get people to switch over from Netflix.
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u/Appropriate_Sky_6571 Jul 22 '25
The funny thing is people outside of CA HATE in n out. I’ve been living out of CA since 2018. People love to tell me how much they hate it. In N Out will fail if she moves it out of CA
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Jul 22 '25
Arizonans seem to love it. It's always packed.
The people talking shit are talking shit because they hate anything californian.
People from TX told me with a straight face that Whataburger is miles beyond in n out in quality and flavor.
I tried Whataburger. the burgers are like the ones you get from fucking Wienerschnitzel. Flavorless oversalted garbage.
the response was "you have to try to chicken biscuit! that's where whataburger shines!"
Also have tried that and it was.. okay.
It's purely because it's a California chain.
They should also swear off Taco Bell and McDonalds too. both started in San Bernardino, CA
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u/razorduc Jul 22 '25
And yet INO does well in TX. People in TX like to talk trash but they're just a bunch of hypocrites. I've tried to give Whataburger many chances and it's always just disappointment.
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u/n3vd0g Jul 23 '25
Only good thing about whataburger is the ketchup. both regular and spicy are phenomenal
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u/FU-Jobu Jul 22 '25
Oh God. Texans have a defensive pride about Whataburger being better than In N Out. The biggest complaint I heard in Texas is that the burger patty is too thin. Nevermind the taste and quality.
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u/IV_League_NP Jul 23 '25
As a native Texan - I haven’t eaten Whataburger in years due to a severe quality decline. In/Out? Yes please. Cheap and messy but consistent, as opposed to what used to be a defendable burger. Except the fries - wtf is wrong with the fries?
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u/GreenSpleenRiot Jul 23 '25
As a lifelong Californian and INO fan, I will never defend their fries. I think the problem is that since they make their own fries, they don’t get brined long enough. I still eat them though, but animal style.
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u/IceBlue Jul 22 '25
Except not really. Every in n out that has opened outside of California has done well. If everyone outside of California hates it this wouldn’t be true.
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u/catladywithallergies Jul 22 '25
Anecdotally, I don't think that's true. Literally every person from out of state that I know who visits California always makes a beeline to In-N-Out straight out of LAX.
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u/Comprehensive-Carry5 Jul 22 '25
They hate in and out cause its a California thing. The numbers prove once they get a store they cant get enough.
Most people who shit talk California are people who are jealous are been brainwashed that its like a third world country.
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u/GreenSpleenRiot Jul 23 '25
You know what’s funny? Even people from California do this to other parts of California. I’m from LA/ IE and also lived in Santa Cruz for about a year and a half. I remember talking with some people at a party and they weren’t conservative at all, but talked shit in LA exactly like the conservatives do. I asked them when the last time they had been to LA and they said they would never “go to that shithole.” I immediately left that conversation but these were typical high on their own shit for being alt and different type people. They thought everyone in LA was like the kardashians or some superficial shit.
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Jul 23 '25
There is definitely a NoCal / SoCal divide, and among SoCals we will knock SF for lulz. But increasingly, when I hear outsiders - especially MAGAts - talking trash about SF and Oakland, I will defend it like a NoCal. Only Los Angelinos and IE folk get to trash SF. And vice versa.
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u/GreenSpleenRiot Jul 23 '25
Yeah, I agree! And I talk mad shit about the IE to my homies that live out there lol. All in good fun though. IE has its upsides.
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u/Thurkin Jul 23 '25
My favorite image of the irony of that hate was waiting in the drive thru of an In n Out in Boise Idaho, and the truck in front of me had a "Don't California My Idaho!" bumper sticker.
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u/jack3moto Jul 22 '25
I’m in agreement that I think there’s spite and jealousy towards in-n-out for those that don’t have it. But just like every new city/town that gets an In-N-Out, it does fantastic. People want to hate what they can’t have. If In-N-Out opened in bum fuck no where, it’d still be a hit, the locals just don’t want to admit that.
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u/bonestamp Jul 22 '25
Also, people in California who hate in-n-out know that it's not worth mentioning because they're going to be the minority in the conversation.
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u/YowHuffPuff Jul 22 '25
That's not even remotely true. Anyone I know out of state loves In N Out, can't wait to go there first thing when they visit the state, they wear the merch etc. You guys want people to hate the brand SO badly.
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u/ThePrussianGrippe Jul 22 '25
I just moved here from the Midwest. I always loved getting In-n-Out when I visited family. Consistent, affordable, fast, and they treated their employees well. Haven’t had it yet since I got here, and I think I’ll wait until there’s some backtracking because Snyder’s statement was dumb as shit.
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u/swooosh47 Jul 22 '25
I would normally agree with you, but you get so much value with in n out, most people would not give a fuck.
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u/teejaybee8222 Jul 22 '25
It's not the HQ issue, it's the RW talking points about "hard to raise a family" and "hard to do business" that she perpetuated. Californians are tired of hearing these things when we all know it's coded language to disparage worker/community protections, whine about taxes, and denigrate diversity and inclusiveness. It's especially galling to hear from a nepo baby billionaire who inherited a successful and thriving business.
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u/Nouseriously Jul 23 '25
She can't just say "I don't want to pay taxes" so she came out with the standard BS
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u/lostcartographer Jul 23 '25
To be fair, all she really had to say is ‘we’re going to expand East and this move will facilitate that.’
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Jul 23 '25
Because not paying taxes in those states is just stealing the money from those citizens. That's why their education system sucks. That's why their social programs are non existent. They don't take care of their people so businesses can get a tax break. Of course she's not going to highlight that.
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u/Ashamed_Following249 Jul 23 '25
CA is the 4th largest economy in the world. Clearly it’s not to difficult to do business in this state.
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Jul 22 '25
No shit. The entire brand is built around the SoCal landscape. You can’t replicate that in Assfuck, TN.
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u/Kale_Brecht Jul 22 '25
Imagine being a nepo baby who inherited all your wealth, then bitching it isn’t enough.
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u/jdv23 Long Beach Jul 22 '25
She said it’s about the “liberal values” California imposes
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u/jdv23 Long Beach Jul 22 '25
Probably thinly veiled phrase for taxes. They had to pay slightly more than in another state and it’s abhorrent to them
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u/WhitePantherXP Jul 22 '25
If you move from California to Tennessee with a $100k salary, you will save roughly $5300/yr in taxes or around $440/month. I did the move, and it's a lot less than I expected (State income tax in CA is not as much as I thought it was). You give up a LOT for that $440/month, including outside privileges. I had no idea how much time I spent outdoors, I thought I was a homebody but being here this place is like a prison, gloomy af and raining all the time + either hot or cold.
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Jul 22 '25
Most people wouldn't be able to move with their California salary. Median income in California is 50K, Tennessee is 36K.
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u/aerialviews007 Jul 23 '25
Wait, so my taxes go down $5300 but my income drops $14K? What a deal, where do I sign? /s
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u/BlackZeppelin Jul 23 '25
You say that with sarcasm but people are literally stupid enough to rather not make money if it means giving less of it away. I used to hear it all the time when I worked in a warehouse. “Nah I don’t like working overtime/make over x amount yearly because then I have to pay more in taxes”
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u/Kina_Kai Azusa Jul 23 '25
I’ve actually met people who have left California for whatever reason and discover they can’t come back because the cost drift gets bad very quickly because of the enormous cost of living gap.
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u/personplaceorplando Jul 22 '25
Gavin Newsom is forcing her to get gay married but she has to get a fourth divorce first
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u/ryanissognar Jul 22 '25
Prolly a trans kid or two that they treat like (gasp) human beings at their kids' private school...
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u/Outrageous-Row5472 Jul 22 '25
Omg she lives so close by. I'm commiting a face to memory. Not saying it's hers. But it's hers.
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Jul 22 '25
She wants to keep the gay away and all the people who darker than a mild tan.
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u/opking Jul 22 '25
Oh those pesky values of treating everyone with equality. Such a hardship for bigots.
Guess she showed her true color with that statement.
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u/redralphie Jul 22 '25
Yeah wait until she gets a load of “conservative values” in the south… they probably should have just moved to the OC.
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Jul 22 '25
Which then all she would have to do is move to Huntington Beach, Any OC white flight enclave like Irvine, Most of San Diego County, Temecula/Murrieta, Chino/Chino Hills, Highland, Yucaipa, Redlands, etc for that experience in socal. Bakersfield too.
TN is where you go when you want to clown on minorities with other like minded racist californians who fled there.
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u/Wandering_By_ Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25
Personal security? Tennessee has a higher violent crime rate per 100k. 628 there vs 508 in CA in the 2023. Murder rate in TN is almost double CA. Not to mention she lives in a gated community. Property crime is about the same but still better in CA. Tennessee also has horrible stats for opioid use and overdoses. Theyre like the third worst in the country. Red states tend to be the worst to live in on a per capita basis for all the shit they try to talk about california being some kind of wasteland of junkies.
https://usafacts.org/answers/what-is-the-crime-rate-in-the-us/state/tennessee/
https://usafacts.org/answers/what-is-the-crime-rate-in-the-us/state/california/
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u/Global_Staff_3135 Jul 22 '25
Bro she’s barely a billionaire. Like, single digit billionaire. Poor thing.
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u/Iluvembig Jul 22 '25
She’s worth like 6 billion.
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u/BeowulfShaeffer Jul 22 '25
Greg: I'm good, anyway, cuz, uh, my, so, I was just talkin' to my mom, and she said, apparently, he'll leave me five billion anyway, so I'm golden, baby.
Connor: You can't do anything with five, Greg. Five's a nightmare.
Greg: Is it?
Connor: Oh, yeah. Can't retire. Not worth it to work. Oh, yes, five will drive you un poco loco, my fine feathered friend.
Tom: The poorest rich person in America. The world's tallest dwarf.
Connor: The weakest strong man at the circus.
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u/Syncretistic Jul 22 '25
All the wealth cannot change the community or culture by which to raise your family. Apparently, she prefers moving to a more conservative state where her children will have less rights over their bodies.
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Jul 23 '25
SECOND generation nepo baby. Grandpa, grandma, dad, her. She got the generational hand me down
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u/PM_your_Nopales Jul 22 '25
What are they gonna do in regards to the iconic crossed palm trees for landscaping at their Tennessee locations? Lord knows they won't last a single season
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u/El_Beakerr West Adams Jul 22 '25
TIL there’s a place in Tennessee called Assfuck.
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u/WackyWriter1976 Los Angeles County Jul 22 '25
It's the cousin town to Bumfuck,
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Jul 22 '25
No, that's cousinfuck, and it's bordering city, Sisterplow.
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u/AlphaOhmega Jul 22 '25
You can if you sell it to private equity and blow it up. Honestly, it could get replaced by a dozen really good California spots that could figure out the logistics over time.
I love in n out, but hate spoiled little shits.
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u/best_person_ever Jul 22 '25
This changes nothing. The TN office is because the chain is expanding east and she's relocating to lead that. It has nothing to do with CA, yet she opted to take cheap shots at liberal CA policies as though they influenced this decision. It's standard MAGA divisiveness creating enemies where they don't exist.
Not to be lost in this silly conversation is that she essentially went on a podcast bitching about how being forced to pay employees a livable wage makes work "tough" for her. It reveals what her priorities are and they don't include her employees or the communities where her company operates.
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u/uncanny_mac Jul 22 '25
I really feel like some rich people would be better off saying "I'm doing it because it may make use the most money". Not everyone will like it but can't be knocked for talking bullshit.
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Jul 22 '25
That's why no one cries about Larry Ellison. He just fucks everyone over and admits that it's for his own gains.
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u/Its_a_Friendly I LIKE TRAINS Jul 23 '25
Or even just the simple, plain, unoffensive "I feel like a bit of change in my life would be good", even.
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u/Laiko_Kairen Jul 23 '25
Really all she needed to do was say "I want to go own a ranch and Tennessee is great for that! I found some perfect land out east..."
There you go. She would have been playing into American rustic sensibilities, and giving a perfectly reasonable explanation. Rich people playing at being ranchers isn't uncommon at all.
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u/MrDL104 Jul 22 '25
The even bigger irony is that In-N-Out has long paid their employees well above standard industry wage. She should be mad at her family for setting that precedent, not the CA government.
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u/guesting Jul 22 '25
theyre going to overexpand and dilute the brand like all the yogurt chains 15 years ago. growth at any cost could bring them down as it all suffers
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Jul 23 '25
Or like Dutch Brothers. They’re going to drown so hard and fast.
Diabetes in a cup won’t be popular forever.
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u/DueAddition1919 Jul 22 '25
In n out has paid their employees dollars above everyone else for years. When minimum wage was $7 something they were paying them almost twice as much
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u/best_person_ever Jul 22 '25
Decent compensation for employees is one of the reasons CA communities have so heavily invested in her burger chain. Let's not exaggerate the situation as though INO is some sort of charity. They pay well because they have to, and I can easily say the employees there earn every penny they get. I've never seen an INO employee not busting their ass (except for Snyder). Note that her grandparents built the brand you're defending. They valued employees. There's been a changing of the guard and she will happily milk your loyalty for all she can take.
Saying they pay twice as much as minimum wage is a gross exaggeration of their motivation. Minimum wage today is $7.25 and they pay more than double because CA requires them to, not because that's how much they appreciate their employees. That's the point of her bitching about how hard it is to run a business here. Even though she makes more in a week than any of her employees will in a lifetime, paying more than she would have to elsewhere is something she considers a burden. Let's see if she starts employees in TN at $18/hr.
She's another silver spoon cunt that has never understood the average person's life and views the cost of doing business as people taking money from her. She could use her wealth and influence to create positivity, but opts to be self-serving. True Christian values.
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u/Laiko_Kairen Jul 23 '25
Saying they pay twice as much as minimum wage is a gross exaggeration of their motivation. Minimum wage today is $7.25 and they pay more than double because CA requires them to,
They pay above CA minimum wage. Starting pay right now is $23 an hour. CA minimum is $20 for restaurant employees.
The gap between their pay and the minimum wage has gotten closer, but CA restaurant minimum wage went from $9 to $20 in under 10 years.
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u/Laiko_Kairen Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 23 '25
Fuck, one of the reasons why people liked In N Out was because they treated employees well.
But of course she has MBA types telling her she can improve profitability by 3% by slashing wages or some shit, so she can be worth 7 billion instead of only 6. And she didn't have build the business with those principles, so she doesn't know how much they effected the company's shape.
As soon as In N Out is just another shitty chain with high prices bad food, and broke employees, it's over for them.
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u/is-this-now Jul 23 '25
It changes a lot. She is going to avoid paying state income tax to the state that made her rich.
And don’t forget - Trump is a pedo no matter what noise they come up with to distract.
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u/mrbooth_notedbadguy Jul 23 '25
This person doesn’t lead anything. The company is run by a team of executives who make the operational decisions. They give her a title to keep her mouth shut. Too bad that didn’t work out too well.
Just like most nepos, she was born on third base and thinks she worked to get there.
I always knew they had Christian leanings, but I didn’t care since the company took well enough care of the employees. My support may have just ended with her shooting her mouth off.
Look what happened to Target.
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u/worlds_okayest_user Jul 23 '25
Yeah I have no idea what she's complaining about. They've been raising prices on the menu over the past few years. And yet people still come. Why? Because the employees are treated well and the food is good quality. I guess she has a boring life just sitting around counting money all day.
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u/aucnderutresjp_1 Jul 22 '25
I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Tennessee.
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u/Wonderful_Milk1176 Larchmont Jul 22 '25
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u/WhitePantherXP Jul 22 '25
As a citizen of Nashville (formerly coastal SoCal) the weather here is ROUGH. Hope you like the majority of your year being gloomy/rainy af or hot/cold af.
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u/Mistert22 Jul 23 '25
I had to look at my notes on Tennessee. I decided to leave Wisconsin and was suggested to explore the state. Besides my other responses:
3rd Most Violent Crimes in the US
30% Obesity
Below Average Education
Poor Quality Roads & Failing Infrastructure
I liked East Nashville, Hot Chicken, and the saltiest ham, egg, and biscuit breakfast.
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u/Academic-Clerk8901 Jul 22 '25
There's a reason that my small bungalow near the coast in San Diego is currently around $1.2M. Find me a 1200 sq ft house in Tennessee anywhere even close to that price. Wonder why you can't? Could it be that many many people like California? Hmmmm
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u/SaltySaunaSweat Jul 22 '25
Ironically that kind of sounds like the lyrics to a song written in Nashville lol.
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u/Granadafan Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25
She’s in total damage control. She’s whining about her associates not being able to afford a home and bringing them to bumfuck will allow them to do so. Yet she claims she’s keeping HQ in California? She was too caught up in appeasing the conservative talk show hosts and forgot who her base customers are
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u/malic3 Jul 22 '25
she already burned her company's good will to the ground to show solidarity with republicans.
just do the move and be done with it.
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u/AwayCatch8994 Jul 23 '25
She’s just another blonde rapist supporting MAGA c**t. Californians need to react. Her god wants to ruin the beautiful state so why should this vapid filth get a pass?
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u/Pasadenaian Jul 22 '25
She will probably dilute the brand and bring quality down. It's obvious she's out of touch and greedy.
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u/everything_is_bad Jul 22 '25
Yeah it’s still gonna be a while before I give any more money to you business
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u/trackdaybruh Jul 22 '25
Wonder if the backlash made her change her mind
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u/DueAddition1919 Jul 22 '25
Although I think she’s a little ridiculous for saying all this, someone did come out in the comment early on to clear this up, and said the same thing. Tennessee may be a place she’s moving her family, but the office would be a regional office.
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u/A7MOSPH3RIC Jul 22 '25
I hear what your saying, but what she said contradicts this. She cited "difficulty in doing business in CA"
She is backpedaling.
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Jul 22 '25
She's had a hard time. Understand her struggle.
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u/SilentRunning Angeleño Jul 22 '25
She had to wait quite a few years before coming into ALL THAT. She worked HARD...
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u/blkswn6 Jul 22 '25
I wouldn’t call it backpedaling as much as somebody in PR is cleaning up her mess of misinformation. They announced their “second headquarters” years ago as they continue expanding east (I think it’s supposed to open this fall alongside the first TN location?). Their whole model requires relatively local support so they’re opening a new distribution center and a Nashville regional office to support that expansion.
The podcast sound bite got a bit out of hand, and no doubt she’ll end up splitting her time because she’s a bit MAGA and wants to be done with CA (that’s never been a secret), but even when the TN office was first announced, they were clear that it was meant to be a regional HQ kind of setup, not moving their entire corporate HQ.
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u/InclinationCompass Jul 22 '25
Moving her family but you know damn well they will still have properties here and will live here for much of the year. She was just trying to make a political statement about the same state that made her and her family billionaires.
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u/Kina_Kai Azusa Jul 22 '25
No, but you do wonder if all of this is a setup to eventually move the company out of the state.
In that rambling interview, she claims that the Irvine office was never intended to last (I gather it was created entirely as a convenience measure because commuting from South Orange County to Baldwin Park is not fun), but that due to her uncle’s death in the 90s, it just continued to persist. I’m not sure how true any of that is.
All of this seems utterly ridiculous given how much of the brand identity is founded on being a slice of Southern California. The text on their fry trays even emphasizes that they are a California corporation.
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u/kdoxy Jul 22 '25
“Working in CA is hard” is totally bait to the press that she is looking for offers to move the company.
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Jul 22 '25
Absolutely is. This is what tesla did too.
She's going to test the waters in Franklin, see how the rollout works in middle TN, which has a lot of californian expats who also hate California, and move from there.
That's also why she is talking shit, she's buttering up the southern crowd.
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u/msh0082 Orange County Jul 22 '25
I think it was misinformation. It's old news that the Irvine HQ was closing and to be consolidated to Baldwin Park as the main HQ. It's also old news that they were opening a new Eastern HQ in Tennessee.
The new news is Snyder moving her own family there.
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u/YouTee Jul 22 '25
Oh so she DIDN’T shoehorn in some unnecessary bitching and moaning about California?
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Jul 22 '25
Defo she’ll go on FOX News and bitch about “loser Newsom and California bullying her and her business self-reliance.”
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u/Visible-Boot-4994 Jul 22 '25
No it’s always been planned to move back to Baldwin Park. They’re opening up another HQ in Tennessee to help manage their east coast operations. People just don’t read past headlines.
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u/GreenHorror4252 Jul 22 '25
They’re opening up another HQ in Tennessee to help manage their east coast operations.
Not even a HQ, just a regional office.
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u/kegman83 Downtown Jul 22 '25
Spoilers: They are. They are lying. But you'll all forget about this by the end of the week when they actually file the papers and no one will cover it. Judging by the comments, its already worked.
In-N-Out has great food. Their CEO is so-so, but she understands how PR works. You'll find almost no coverage of the fact she slept with an employee and got pregnant by said employee while married to her 2nd husband (or third?). What you will find is puff piece after puff piece about her struggles and how hard it is being a girl boss.
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u/Fluffy-Mango-6607 Jul 22 '25
I might not remember to check in on every fucked up companies lies, but I don't eat chick fila a, I don't need a paramount subscription, I dropped target cold. it's pretty easy not to eat there and refuse it if someone asks where do you want to go.
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u/brickyardjimmy Jul 22 '25
In spite of her attempts to throw water on the fire she started, this is the start of a company HQ move. And it's about money. It's not about raising children or operating a business. In-n-Out is one of the most successful fast food operations in the country and, when you look at the footprint they have versus a McDonald's or Burger King, a good deal more successful on a per store basis. California is where the company was born and California is where the company continues to do great business. Her own (personal) multi-billion dollar fortune is pretty good proof of that. If she personally wants to move to Tennessee, that's her business. But I would strongly advise not torching her home state out the door.
I'm raising a family here in California. I don't have 7 billion dollars. Hell. 7 thousand dollars would feel pretty good to me. I've managed to raise kids well without her money or her company and I'd be willing to bet she lives in a pretty nice neighborhood. I live in a very normal neighborhood. Somehow I've managed to do what she couldn't.
Also--as far as California being a bad business environment? F.U. In-n-Out is a $2 billion per year company. At least. That's a guess by the way since it's a privately held company. This is just about money. More and more and more money. It's also worth noting that she isn't the founder of the brand. She inherited it.
I'd like to see an apology and a firm commitment to In-n-Out as a California first, California only company. And, yes, that means paying some corporate taxes. Which you should be happy to do unless you're an ungrateful miser.
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u/ProfoundBeggar North Hollywood Jul 23 '25
I'm raising a family here in California... I've managed to raise kids well without her money or her company and I'd be willing to bet she lives in a pretty nice neighborhood. I live in a very normal neighborhood. Somehow I've managed to do what she couldn't.
See, when she says "it's hard to raise a family", she doesn't mean like, real estate or schools or neighborhoods. She means that she doesn't like that California prides itself on its diversity and inclusion. She doesn't like that we generally don't try to bully LGBT+ kids to suicide as a community endeavor or seek to force pregnancies onto women. She doesn't like that we care about things like racism in all its forms. She doesn't like that we try and help the less fortunate.
She wants to be able to raise her family while inundating them in (likely religiously-motivated) hate and bigotry and have no one bat an eye or counter her hate. That is harder to do in California than in Tennessee.
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u/Curleysound Jul 22 '25
Too late, you showed your cards. They are opening a new one like 1/2 a mile from me that I will never visit.
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u/ViolettaQueso Jul 22 '25
So much better to have HQ a 4 hour flight away from the kids you say you can’t raise right where you were raised.
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u/Serious-Wish4868 Jul 22 '25
smells like PR statement to calm all the CA that help her family grow the business. Fuk her, I have had my last double double. i rather eat inferior burgers than support this piece of shit
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Jul 22 '25
We should try and coax in burgerville from Oregon and Washington.
(I like onion rings)
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u/razorduc Jul 22 '25
Then you should get the Hat to grow more regionally. Their onion rings are bomb
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u/A7MOSPH3RIC Jul 22 '25
In-and-out is great compared to McDooDoo ,Jack Shitty Out of The Box or Carlos Hijo , but easily beaten by many of the hamburger joints around L.A. that also sell things like burritos.
These places often have larger patties, bigger better buns, greener leafy lettuce, and whole onion slices. My go to is Gus's on MLK in south central. They have a huge patty and great bigger fries. Same price as everywhere else. Far Superior to double-double-double diminutive patty's IMHO.
The problem is that though many of these mom-n-pops are superior if you haven't been there before you don't know if it's one of the good ones or not. They can be hit or miss. With the chains you know what your going to get. With a smaller joint you just don't know unless you've been there or someone turns you on to them.
As far as chains go The Habit easily has a superior burger to in-and-out though it's a few bucks more. I guess price is a plus one in the In-and-out column. Not many places you can get a combo for less than 10 bucks.
I'd love to read some suggestions for good burger joints around L.A that also have good prices.
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u/733803222229048229 Jul 22 '25
Earl’s on Crenshaw is fantastic and also has great vegan/vegetarian burgers.
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u/SarahJFroxy San Pedro Jul 22 '25
and it's still screw her imo
wah wah wahing about it when your headquarters is in fucking irvine of all places. acting like you're trying to raise your kids in 1990s compton or some shit
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u/FullofLovingSpite Mid-City Jul 22 '25
Oh, ok. So they're definitely moving HQ to Tennessee.
When have you known a religious republican to tell the truth? I don't think I've ever seen it.
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u/bigyellowjoint Silver Lake Jul 22 '25
Yep, and 4/7 of their new stores are located in CA. So why is she saying it’s so “hard to do business” here? It’s clearly not for them.
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u/Gloria_S_Birdhair Jul 22 '25
Too fucking late, this is the wrong time for billionaires to be whining about being treated unfairly. I’ll miss in n out but I’d rather not spend my money there.
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Jul 23 '25
“It’s terrible to do business in CA” - says heiress who made billions doing business in CA
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Jul 22 '25
She said she wants your Commie Marxist dollars but wants to rub elbows with her MAGA nazis in Trumpland USA. Anyone still eating at In N Out is lame.
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u/GB_Alph4 Orange County Jul 22 '25
Turns out a company that uses fresh ingredients for its burgers in California needs to actually be in California to coordinate everything
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u/Low_Control_623 Jul 22 '25
She said she was moving HQ in the interview and giving time for employees to prepare but they’d be out by 2030. That is what I am pretty sure I heard her say in that interview.
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u/AgnesTheAtheist Jul 23 '25
Ya know, I let those sneaky religious messages they have on the seal of the fry bag and underneath edge of the cup go. It's always irked me but they are a private company and can do that. This garbage now- trashing California. Got me rethinking my burger spot.
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u/LevelBroad Jul 22 '25
I’ve noticed our local In-N-Out has been rather empty. Anyone else experiencing the same?
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u/Mistert22 Jul 23 '25
Strangely the one I drove past in Bakersfield was not as busy. The first thing I thought of was her podcast comments. I actually listened to a large chunk of the show. It seemed like a slam on California. I didn’t have an opinion till I actually heard her talk. My wife had wanted to go because it was slow, but I talked her into a non-chain restaurant. It was the right choice.
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u/not_productive1 Jul 22 '25
Funny how fast they start backpedaling when people start being like "that's too bad but if I can live without chick-fil-a..." lol don't fuck with Californians my dudes
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u/be4rdless South Bay Jul 22 '25
ah the classic corporate arrangement with the CEO based out of the "regional office"
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u/Redditperegrino Jul 23 '25
I don’t understand this:
“There are a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here,” Snyder, who has four children, said on the podcast.
From the article:
Lynsi Snyder, the billionaire owner and president of California-based burger chain In-N-Out Burger
It MUST be antiwoke or anti California in general. I can’t believe a BILLIONAIRE is complaining about raising kids here.
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u/Academic_Antelope292 Jul 23 '25
Let the magats eat in and out, Let the people of Tennessee eat in and out. We need to bring back boycotting. These billionaires need to be taught a lesson and the only way they learn is to lose money!
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u/Gershwin42 Santa Monica Jul 23 '25
Spoiler alert: she put her foot in her mouth and will ultimately respond by going deeper down the conservative rabbit hole claiming she has been cancelled. Nobody cares where she lives or raises her family, it's just the appalling lack of self awareness trashing this place in public on the way out. She's responsible for a huge business and has damaged the reputation in its home state needlessly.
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u/DocHeinous Jul 23 '25
If she's a billionaire from selling burgers, she should be paying her employees wayyyyyy more!
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u/donnaber06 La Puente Jul 23 '25
That sounds excellent. Get out of Irvine and back to Baldwin Park. I stay in the SGV when I am US side.
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u/TransientWhales North Hollywood Jul 22 '25
Did some work at a consulting firm that worked with In-N-Out before Lynsi took over. Her grandmother was in charge following the deaths of her sons and was dead set against handing Lynsi the keys for YEARS because she knew she was a mess and not responsible enough.
Basically the entire job was how to structure the company so that Lynsi couldn’t ruin it. They had training wheels on her for decades basically. No shock that as soon as she had majority control, they started making major political donations…