In-N-Out exec responds to backlash after
announcing her move from California to Tennessee
USA Today,
by
Amaris Encinas
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/26/2025 9:03:15 AM
Lynsi Snyder, president and owner of In-N-Out, is speaking out after social media users criticized her for comments she made about the chain's home state of California. Snyder, 43, issued a statement on July 22 after making critical comments about "The Golden State" when discussing her family's move to Tennessee, where In-N-Out is also slated to open an eastern office to "support our growth." (Snip) The backlash began shortly after Snyder, who has been in charge of the burger empire since 2010, made complaints about living and doing business in California in a recent interview. "Like you said, there's a
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
slipstik 7/26/2025 9:23:47 AM (No. 1982757)
Staying in Krazyfornia has no future. She should have moved out five years ago.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
padiva 7/26/2025 9:26:50 AM (No. 1982760)
Isn't free enterprise wonderful?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catherine 7/26/2025 9:35:14 AM (No. 1982762)
So she owns the thing. She gets to do what she wants with hit. What is it with social media thinking they can throw temper tantrums when people do what they want with their lives?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/26/2025 9:37:09 AM (No. 1982763)
As a lifelong Californian and a customer for twenty plus years, I wish her good fortune. California ain’t what it used to be.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/26/2025 9:48:39 AM (No. 1982771)
Re #3, exactly. In-N-Out has been the quintessential California company built by loyal patrons. It could not have done that anywhere else. We'll see how her plans work out. Their burgers are quite unlike any I found elsewhere on road trips thrpugh many states.
It is never a good idea to slam the market that made your company and your billions..
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JackBurton 7/26/2025 9:56:52 AM (No. 1982775)
I don't see any 'slamming' in this article... just a good corporate promise to expand East.
Nothing that should have gotten peoples' panties bunched up but...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Californian 7/26/2025 9:59:52 AM (No. 1982779)
Their HQs will be out by 2030, their last CA restaurant will be closed by 2035.
Good business move. Smart lady.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lucky5 7/26/2025 10:05:24 AM (No. 1982783)
She is not moving the business out of Cali. She had made that quite clear. All the restaurants will stay here. This is a tempest in a teapot.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
thefield 7/26/2025 10:09:19 AM (No. 1982785)
#5 The business was built with specific rules. If the rules keep changing everyday, there is no sense in staying.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 7/26/2025 10:09:36 AM (No. 1982786)
Elon left California for Texas, he never got the same rasher of $#!t this lady is getting.
Would that be because she is a woman?
Besides, there is no state income tax in Tennessee. Why would you not want to take advantage of that?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Safari Man 7/26/2025 10:12:49 AM (No. 1982788)
In-n-out is the victim of the dimocrat party. That’s where the recriminations should be directed.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
reefdiver 7/26/2025 10:31:49 AM (No. 1982798)
"In-N-out" of California seems to work for her.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/26/2025 10:35:19 AM (No. 1982800)
They won't be the last to leave. CA is a beautiful state and I can see why people found it such a magnet. That's pretty much gone now. The cost of living, the homeless, high taxes, the regulatory climate ($20 minimum wage), fuel costs, stunning mismanagement, plus the most amazingly inept group of politicians you could possibly imagine etc. etc.
Now we hear that the rebuilding permits from the fires are snarled in a bureaucratic nightmare. I can see a lot of homeowners just selling the lots their houses were once built on and leaving the state entirely. The Democrat party has foolishly allowed itself to be captured by the left and if given power will destroy everywhere they govern.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/26/2025 10:36:16 AM (No. 1982801)
Wow, I thought the dems were all about choices. She owns the company and she gets to do whatever she wants to do. It's not that difficult a thought. And to all the east and west coasters if you really think we want to be you and live in the nut job states that you do - WRONG!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/26/2025 10:44:42 AM (No. 1982808)
Anybody who has recently moved out of California or sees what their government has done to its residents are saying the same things. A big crash is imminent.
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The nearly 300 locations in California (>75% of the revenue) will do just fine. Was at one of the Anaheim stores last night, sitting in 3 lanes of coned traffic for drive-thru service at almost 1 AM: 50+ vehicles full of loyal customers calmly and patiently waiting their turn (imagine that scene at a South Carolina Waffle House). No one here cares what a handful of like-starved idiots on social media think about what Lynsi says or does. We just want to continue enjoying the best burgers around. "And grill the onions, please."
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Moritz55 7/26/2025 11:26:01 AM (No. 1982840)
Great burgers. Terrible fries.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
FlaDiver74 7/26/2025 11:51:26 AM (No. 1982846)
Only thing I missed when I left Ca. after moving there for 20 years for an aerospace career. Their fries are best made animal style, other than that they suck, too fresh, french fries need to be frozen prior to deep frying.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
kidsmom 7/26/2025 12:03:46 PM (No. 1982851)
Hope her politics are "red". We don't need any more democrat transplants from California here in Tennessee.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
minuteman 7/26/2025 12:06:19 PM (No. 1982853)
She is a conservative Christian. Which may explain much of the hate.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LaValette 7/26/2025 12:09:40 PM (No. 1982855)
In November 2024 the voters in California voted 63/37 to replace the "man-woman" definition of marriage in the state constitution with words saying in effect "anyone can marry anyone," so yes, California is hostile to any rational concept of marriage and the family.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
LaValette 7/26/2025 12:11:14 PM (No. 1982856)
I will add that the replacement of "man-woman" marriage definition with "anyone can marry anyone" definition was supported by half of the Republicans in the legislature. The other half merely abstained.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 7/26/2025 12:33:49 PM (No. 1982867)
I think it was Henry Ford II that advised, "Don't complain and don't explain." This advise should be applied in many situations.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 7/26/2025 12:40:43 PM (No. 1982872)
@#5 - You must have read a different article than I did. Miss Synder did not 'slam' her customers - just the opposite. She clearly stated she was still going to service her CA customers.
Corporate America has been leaving CA in droves since Newsom stole the governorship - that and the crazy super majority controlled state legislature that keeps looking for ways to raise our taxes every half an hour. Businesses have every right to leave when they are constantly being attacked via rules, regulations, taxes, unsustainable minimum wage increases, etc. Californians are still in denial as to what is being done to them. Has anyone checked their local fire hydrant lately??
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/26/2025 12:54:13 PM (No. 1982879)
It's a private business which pays massive amounts of taxes to the State of California.
She personally pays a bunch too as do the executives of the company.
Much like many other businesses who were being pushed around by the Democrats in Sacramento, she has determined the best long-term plans for her company.
She's keeping the stores (they usually own the land where they're built) already in CA - they aren't closing.
Nestle moved their corporate HQ a number of years ago (was in Schiff's district) and no one in Sacramento seemed to care.
Toyota was pushed around by Sacramento which is how Musk obtained the Fremont plant for Tesla. Took Toyota few years but they left their massive HQ in Torrance for Texas. No one in Sacramento seemed to care.
CA is a very difficult place to run a company. They will chase out many more companies and aren't getting any of the large AI projects for the tech companies.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/26/2025 2:10:12 PM (No. 1982917)
In-N-Out is popular everywhere.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
franco 7/26/2025 2:33:49 PM (No. 1982929)
The backlash is reminding me a bit of what happened to Chick-Fil-A when Truett Cathey's son dabbled with the woke crowd a few years ago.
In that case, the younger Mr. Cathey was forgiven by his customers, who were mostly center-right. Not sure that In-N-Out Burger will fare as well in nutty wastelands like California; perhaps closing down more stores (as they did in Oakland) might send a message about what the company will tolerate from it's left-of-center customers. Meantime, California's loss appears to be the rest of the country's gain.
BTW, #17, I don't know what your experience was with their fries, but in 2000 I lived in CA for a few months and got to witness the "potato smasher" [a device which took in freshly picked potatoes, peeled them, sliced them into fry form, and deposited the fry-formed potato slices into a fry vat] in action at In-N-Out, and those were the best French fries I've ever tasted in a fast food restaurant.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/26/2025 3:26:15 PM (No. 1982964)
I'm surprised ALL big businesses don't leave Californication, It's a SchiffT HOLE!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 7/26/2025 4:56:33 PM (No. 1983002)
Correcting a few earlier posters who said she has the right to do as she pleases. Maybe so now, but Democrats do not believe she owns the thing, everything should be owned and controlled by the State. The plan is to make that so, raising taxes every half hour is part of that plan.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 7/26/2025 8:09:13 PM (No. 1983049)
;I ate at In-n-Out with friends and relatives a number of times at their urging. Not horrilble, but nothing speciaal t all, IMO. I'd rather have a burger from Burger King or Wendys, actually.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
danu 7/28/2025 12:10:41 AM (No. 1983440)
tn is becoming ca light, imho---with a side order of marxism a la mode
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I'm sure everything she said was true. TN is a better place to raise a family and to work.