Posted on 01/22/2024 3:57:33 AM PST by lowbridge
In-N-Out Burger’s only location in Oakland is closing after the cherished fast-food joint decided it could no longer risk the safety of fed-up workers and patrons in the city plagued by recent crime.
The location will shut its doors in March — despite the burger spot turning a profit — because of the constant crime in the community, In-N-Out Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick said in a sudden announcement over the weekend.
The fast food joint has been in the California city for 18 years.
“Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our Customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft, and armed robberies,” Warnick wrote, according to CBS East Bay, which obtained the announcement.
“Additionally, this location remains a busy and profitable one for the company, but our top priority must be the safety and wellbeing of our Customers and Associates – we cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment,” he said.
Data released by Oakland police at the start of the new year showed robberies increased 38% from 2022 to 2023, ABC 7 Bay Area reported.
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ruh roh ... hamburger desert ... time for the Feds to step in with a government hamburger joint ...
I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t operate a business in Oakland that attracts young maggots either.
Libs are why we can’t have nice things.
Lib policies bring chaos. Look at our southern border.
Smart business move.
Leaving libtard utopia so quickly after the idiot democrats have worked so hard to screw it up?
Chaos by design.
Crime —> those who can afford to do so move out. Makes it a more and more lib dominated area. Candidates openly run to go easy on crime. Judges and DAs will stick it to the man (white people).
Open borders. Elites that run the RINOs get cheap labor. Dems get state-dependent brown voters.
This location of In n Out was near the airport. Tourists - who didn’t realize they were in a third world hellhole - were the primary target for robberies. Police grow tired of the catch and release game. Any interaction with a good rat puts the officer at risk of being the next focus of riots and prosecution. So the criminals run free. Businesses leave. Black activists show up to complain about racism and food deserts.
Without God everything is permissible. This is what happens when a nation turns its back on God. Hell on earth… and no good burgers.
Looney leftist lawlessness strikes again.
It appears to me the citizens who live in these places will soon be begging their “dim leaders” to change their stripes and start locking the bad bois up. We got some reprobate representatives out here that love their criminals too.
Bremerton, home of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, has this bitch of a representative, how she got elected in Bremerton a city full of veterans I’ll never understand, but she’s an actual convict. Did time for 3 felonies. Check out her 2 bills she just dropped, amazing.
AND
This is one that should not be anywhere near a state capitol, state prison is a more proper location for this reprobate to reside.
How long has it been since Oakland was a relatively nice or safe place to live in? 50, 60 years?
A Double-Double desert.
“constant crime in the community”
Nuff said.
They had to add that line in to show how evil and uncaring In-N-Out really is. Sheesh.
This needs to happen more often, although I hope the suburbs are prepared for a possible invasion from the neighboring residents criminal element.
Two more months open at that location? I would hate to work there.
Mostly peaceful shoplifting
That's one of the best comments I've read in awhile :)
They join the hundreds of Walgreens which are closing up and leaving DemGhetto areas. Good riddance.
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