THE owner of In-N-Out has broken her silence about the closure of the beloved burger chain’s Oakland location early this year.
In January, In-N-Out made nationwide headlines after announcing for the first time in the restaurant’s 75-year history that one of its locations was shutting down permanently.
At the time, Denny Warnick, the burger chain’s operating officer, attributed the Oakland location’s closure to “ongoing issues with crime” in the area.
The site, near Oakland International Airport, permanently shut its doors on March 24, officially marking the company’s departure from the city.
The location was operational for nearly two decades.
Now, nearly a year since the site closed, In-N-Out CEO Lynsi Snyder has disclosed the issues behind the troubled location and the company’s decision to end operations in Oakland.
Snyder, 42, called the site “absolutely dangerous.”