Mortgage and housing commentator Ramin Ekhtiar, speaking on his Ramin RealTalk channel, starts with a number that feels almost too small for the story he’s about to tell. He says a Double-Double costs about $5.90, “six bucks,” and calls In-N-Out the most iconic burger joint in California history.
Then he drops the real headline in his own blunt words: the billionaire owner, Lynsi Snyder, “just said, ‘I’m done.’” Ramin says she’s moving to Tennessee, packing up her family, and leaving California behind after four generations of loyalty.
Ramin frames it as a turning point because this wasn’t some outsider company that never cared about the state. In his telling, In-N-Out was the last true holdout, the most California brand you could think of, and now even that thread is being pulled loose…