Lynsi Snyder and the In-N-Out Empire She Refused to Sell
In short: Lynsi Snyder is the sole owner of In-N-Out Burger — America's most beloved burger chain, with long lines at more than four hundred stores and a value in the billions. She almost never appears in public. Twice — once as a high school student, once as a young woman working in one of the stores — she escaped people who tried to kidnap her. She inherited a company built slowly by her grandparents and marked by family tragedy, became its president at twenty-seven, and to this day refuses both an IPO and franchising. Her real story is not about hiding. It is about what it takes to stand back up in the very place where everything fell apart. How did In-N-Out begin? The story begins in 1948, at a small intersection in Baldwin Park, California. Harry Snyder, who had worked in the kitchen of a Seattle catering company, met his wife Esther, came home to Baldwin Park, and opened a tiny stand of about one hundred square feet across the street from his childhood home. The menu was n...