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The In-N-Out heiress whose grandparents founded the popular burger chain said that the company’s decision to close its sole Oakland location was due to the site being “absolutely dangerous.” “I mean, there was a lot,” Lynsi Snyder told Marissa Streit of the right-leaning video network PragerU on Monday. “There was actually — gunshots went through the store, there was a stabbing, there was a lot.” Snyder, 42, said that the company shuttered the profitable outpost “for the safety of our associates” because “we just felt like, this is not OK.” Her comments were first reported by the news site SFGATE....

Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, Jimmy Patronis, suggested that In-N-Out Burger should move to the Sunshine State after several In-N-Out locations were shut down by California officials.Patronis appealed to In-N-Out CEO Lynsi Snyder to move to the state, arguing that Florida has a superior business climate—noting the state has no personal income tax, low corporate taxes, and no mandates.“I’m writing you today not only as Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, but as a small business owner who grew up in a family-owned restaurant and worked there for more than 30 years,” his letter reads. “I know how hard it is to turn...

In-N-Out heiress Lynsi Snyder is notoriously private and rarely talks about her surprisingly tumultuous road to success. Snyder's achievements speak for themselves; she was named the youngest female on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list last year and has a reported net worth of $3billion thanks to her booming West Coast burger chain. Despite this, the mother-of-four who inherited the business from her grandparents has only spoken publicly about her life a a handful of times over the past decade. But in a rare interview she has lifted the lid on the role her Evangelical Christian faith has played in...