A Bay Area restaurant group has snapped up the shuttered East Oakland In-N-Out Burger that became a symbol of the city’s public safety crisis, paying $1.8 million for a property the burger chain abandoned after years of robberies and car break-ins and what it called an “unsafe” environment for workers and customers.
Chandi Hospitality, a Santa Rosa-based company with a dozen restaurants across Northern California, purchased the one-acre site near the interchange of Interstate 880 and Hegenberger Road on March 20, according to public records.
The closure in 2024 drew national attention when In-N-Out Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick announced the decision despite the location being, in his own words, “busy and profitable.” It was also Oakland’s only In-N-Out…