The cost of living in California is so expensive. Gas is absurdly high, rent is out of this world. Even people with great jobs at least have one roommate or split the cost with a partner. If you're working the average job out in California, you might as well stay with family or have enough roommates where it's practically a group home. Obviously, this doesn't apply to billionaires-- they can live anywhere they want. At least it shouldn't apply to them. It really shouldn't apply to an heiress of the biggest West Coast food chain like In-N-Out.
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Recently, 43 year old Lynsi Snyder, president and heiress to the massive burger chain, spoke to Fox about her intentions to leave California behind. Ultimately, the reason is that she's expanding her empire out east, starting with a In-N-Out base in Tennessee. Consequently, she would need to transport her family accordingly to keep everyone together. However, Snyder also insists that raising a family and orchestrating business isn't the same as it used to be.
In-N-Out Heads Out East as The Heiress Departs From California
"We're building an office in Franklin [Tennessee,] so I'm actually moving out there," Snyder says. "There's a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here. Doing business is not easy here now."
Additionally, the main In-N-Out office in Irvine, California would be shut down by the end of the decade. Snyder argues that it never really matched the family values, adding further fuel for why she would leave. "My uncle opened the office in Irvine ... in the '90s," she says. "When my dad came down to run the business, we had moved to northern California. It was family over fighting with his brother and running the company."
"So when he came down and saw Irvine and all of that, [he] was just like, 'This is not us. This is not our roots, this is not my dad,'" Snyder continues of the 90s In-N-Out days in Irvine. "He wanted to move everyone back to Baldwin Park. So he kind of did a hybrid. He moved a lot of people back to Baldwin Park but Irvine continued on and continued to grow and my dad died a handful of years later."
