After 77 years in California, In-n-Out President Lynsi Snyder sat down with journalist Allie Beth Stuckey to share why her company’s headquarters, and her family, are leaving Gavin Newsom’s destroyed state and heading to Tennessee.
Lynsi Snyder: We’re building an office in Franklin, so I’m actually moving out there.
Allie Beth Stuckey: And how do you feel about that? You’re like a California girl, through and through, right?
Lynsi Snyder: Yeah. I mean, I really loved living in Northern California, and I’m so thankful that I grew up up there because I think it changed a lot of who I am today. I think I would be different if I was raised in Southern California.
But like you said, there’s a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here. Doing business is not easy here. Now, the bulk of our stores are still going to be here in California, but it will be wonderful having an office out there, growing out there. Totally. And being able to have the family and other people’s families out there. And so in that, it’s two part. We’ll have everybody under one roof here in Walton Park, and we’ll close our fine.
Allie Beth Stuckey: Okay. That’s a big transition. And that’s happening in the next few years, right?
Lynsi Snyder: Yeah. We’ve We’re giving it a longer runway so that it’s smoother for everybody so they can plan and all of that. And we gave them a lot of notice because we love them and we want to make it as easy as possible. But by 2030, we’ll close the Irvine office.
Allie Beth Stuckey: Okay. Okay. So at one point you said that within your lifetime, if you draw a line from Texas, everything to the left, you want in and out there, but not maybe to the right of the line. And you talked about just the importance of the novelty of in and out, that you liked when someone comes into town where there’s an in and out, they’re like, ‘I got to go there,’ which is totally true. That’s what people do, by the way. I’m guessing, though, since you’re going to be to the right of that line, that you’re probably going to be opening up in and outs there. So what does the strategy look like? Has it changed?
Lynsi Snyder: Well, it’s funny. I think Kid Rock, his name is Bob. I think he’s the one that actually drew the new map, and he put the line up from Texas, grabbed Tennessee, went around Tennessee, and back up. I’m like, yeah, that’s how….
So I think for me, it’s the same heart. It’s just, I guess I would say, a man plans in his ways and God makes his steps. So we had a plan, and then he snuck that in there. And I think Florida has begged us, and we’re still saying no. The East Coast states, we’re still saying no.
We’re able to reach Tennessee from our Texas warehouse. So we’re not putting our whole meat facility where we do all of our own beef and send it to our stores, make patties. We’re not going to have that there. Have a warehouse, but not do our own meat there. So we’ll be able to deliver from Texas. So Texas can reach some other states, you know?
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In-n-Out President Lynsi Snyder reveals for the first time that she and her family are LEAVING California for Tennessee. “Raising a family is not easy here,” she told me. “Doing business is not easy here.”
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