In-N-Out Burger will close its first location in its 75-year history due to a wave of car break-ins and robberies at its only restaurant in Oakland, California.

In-N-Out Burger says it will close its first location in its 75-year history due to a wave of car break-ins, property damage, theft and robberies affecting customers and employees alike at its only restaurant in Oakland, California.

The fast-food burger joint in a busy corridor near Oakland International Airport will close on March 24 because even though the company has taken “repeated steps to create safer conditions our Customers and Associates are regularly victimized,” Denny Warnick, In-N-Out’s chief operating officer, said in a statement Wednesday.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    126·
    9 months ago

    In and out owner was denying COVID procedure at a point, right? Suspect this is less warranted action and just another nut job carrying water for the crazy, hate machine on the right.

    Didn’t I hear this location was right by the A’s stadium, and the A’s are leaving, correct?

    So maybe a business failing being covered by “out of control crime” just like how target and the retail Association got caught lying about the stores they were closing the to “out of control crime”. Then it turns out… Oh, each of the stores they marked to close actually had other nearby target stores with higher reported crime rates, but what the stores marked for closure DID have in common was that they had lower sales.

    Retail boils down to a real estate speculation guessing game. Executives are typically unqualified, privileged pretenders . They made the wrong guesses on store location, because they are incompetent, and now they are exploiting this moment - just like they price gouge through COVID. It’s all a play to cover their failures.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      I’m pretty inclined to believe the reason of crime in this instance because

      1. In-n-Out is so popular, most locations’ drive-thrus have 'round the block traffic
      2. Oakland is pretty crime ridden
      3. They’re only closing a single location, and In-n-Out is not franchised.

      It’s very likely that people backed up in the drive-thru line were being robbed. I used to think the stories about how fucked up that city is were just exaggerated until I had to work out there overnight. It really is that bad.