In-N-Out owner slams Oakland over store closings

Nearly a year after In-N-Out permanently closed its Oakland location, the owner of the beloved California burger chain opened up about the company’s decision to close the Bay Area location.

In one recent interview with Marissa Streit, CEO of conservative video network PragerU, Lynsi Snyder opened up about the former In-N-Out restaurant in Oakland. The location closed in January due to ongoing crime, the company said at the time. When asked about the rare shutdown of Streit’s “Real Talk” show, the famously private Snyder called the place “absolutely dangerous” and said car break-ins, fights and theft were regular occurrences throughout the year.

“I mean, there was a lot,” Snyder told Streit. “There was actually – shots going through the store, there was a stabbing, there was a lot.”

Snyder added, “For the safety of our employees, we just felt this is not right.”

In January, In-N-Out’s chief operating officer Denny Warnick said in a statement to SFGATE that while the Oakland store was “busy and profitable,” customers and employees were “regular victims of car break-ins, property damage, theft and armed robberies” despite of the company’s best efforts to “create safer conditions.” In his “Real Talk” interview, Snyder added that the time it took police to respond to problems at the Oakland restaurant was “alarming.”