Top 10 Untold Truths Of In-N-Out Burger!

In-N-Out Burger, despite being "just" a regional

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chain (with locations primarily in the Southwestern United States), is known throughout the Western world as a place that serves delicious

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s, even if most of people have never had the opportunity. to sink your teeth into one of their juicy delicacies. Founded in Baldwin Park, California in 1948, In-N-Out is headquartered in Irvine, California and primarily served Southern California until it began expanding to the rest of California, then Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas and Oregon. Its hesitation to open up to franchising has maintained an air of mystery around the restaurant for those not fortunate enough to live in one of the six states in which it operates.

It is surprising, however, since basically everyone has heard of In-N-Out Burger and there are actually people who travel to the aforementioned states simply to try the burgers. If they ever opened nationally, they would make a lot of money, although they would lose their control, so it will probably never happen, unfortunately. Still, let's help lift the veil of mystery and reveal 10 facts about In-N-Out Burger that you may not know! In-N-Out Burger remains family-owned When it comes to other fast food burger chains, going public is usually the way to go, as it opens the restaurant to a flood of new money and allows for rapid expansion that It is often necessary in the dog eats...

Burger world, which is the fast food game. However, the Snyder family who opened the first In-N-Out Burger in 1948 still owns all of the restaurants, with Lynsi Snyder, the only granddaughter of founders Harry and Esther Snyder, being the sole owner. The reasoning behind this is simple: the Snyders like money! It's actually because they like to retain ownership of each restaurant to ensure that a certain level of quality is met and that seems to have worked for them so far as not only do they have a very loyal customer base but also because they have been rated one of the best fast food restaurants in several major customer satisfaction surveys.

If you go to any site like Yelp or Glassdoor, which rank the quality of each location from both a customer and employee perspective, In-N-Out Burger is basically the highest-ranked fast food restaurant in the game. Before we continue, why not click the subscribe button and hit the notification bell? In-N-Out Burger is not a franchise. Part of keeping ownership as a family also means that the Snyders have rejected the typical fast-food restaurant model of opening their brand to franchising. That allows for rapid expansion, since most of the money that would be needed to open and market new restaurants is the responsibility of the franchise, and the restaurant basically only collects a portion of the profits and takes responsibility for some of the marketing (especially to Nacional level).

Beyond maintaining quality for its customers, keeping things private also allows In-N-Out to ensure a certain level of quality for its employees. Of all the fast food restaurants, In-N-Out is particularly known for its employee-focused personnel policies. Because of that, In-N-Out Burger currently has a 4.5 out of 5 star rating on employee rating website GlassDoor.com, as well as the same rating on Indeed.com, something that is almost unheard of in the industry. In addition to salary, they also offer a lot of flexibility when it comes to the hours they offer employees, which helps create a positive work-life balance and good employee retention.

That means your employees tend to be happier and that reflects in the food, as employees who feel respected and rested tend to work harder than those who don't. In-N-Out Burger Pays Very Well As mentioned a second ago, In-N-Out Burger bucks the industry trend of paying its employees low wages, with starting salaries averaging around 20 percent. percent higher than those of its competition. This is important since during the series of "Fight for 15" strikes that fast food workers undertook a few years ago, it was reported that more than 40 percent of fast food workers were actually living in poverty, and only 14 percent of non-union restaurant workers lived in poverty. workers who receive benefits from their employers.

In-N-Out Burger, however, starts hiring its hourly workers at $10.50 an hour, which is where that 20 percent comes in (compared to the national median hourly wage for similar positions that amounts to just under $8.95 per hour). That's also 44 percent above the national minimum wage, which goes against the typical insults those who work in fast food restaurants have to endure. Beyond that, most frontline employees at In-N-Out Burger make $14 an hour (on average), and store managers with a certain amount of time under their belts contribute an insane amount (for the industry or even in general). ) six figures! So maybe people should stop using the insult "McJob" and hand in a CV at In-N-Out!

In-N-Out has its own nonprofit. That money sharing doesn't just extend to employees, either, as the Snyder family believes in giving back, so much so that they established the In-N-Out Burgers Foundation in March. 1995. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, it is classified as a "Human Services: Fundraising and Distribution" organization under the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities classification system. Also based in Irvine, California, the foundation "Supports organizations that provide residential treatment, emergency shelter, foster care and early intervention for children in need." In the most recent year in which financial reports were publicly available, the foundation contributed more than $1.5 million to 231 recipients in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah, with typical grants ranging from $2,000 to $20,000 and going to others certified nonprofit organizations.

While other fast food locations tend to work with nonprofit organizations, such as McDonald's and its Ronald McDonald House, outside of McDonald's this makes In-N-Out different because it has its own direct 501(c)(3) . In-N-Out was opened by a pair of newlyweds When the first In-N-Out opened in October 1948, it was the first drive-thru hamburger stand in the state of California and allowed people to make orders through a two-way speaker system. Its owners, Harry and Esther Snyder, were newly married and are credited with being two of the first people to develop the idea of ​​a drive-thru. Before this first In-N-Out burger, people parked at drive-ins and gave their orders to servers, who then walked, ran or skated to the restaurant.

The Snyders closely managed and supervised their restaurants to ensure quality was maintained; Harry often drove himself to local markets to pick up fresh ingredients and Esther took care of the accounting books. They opened their second location three years after the first on the west side of the intersection of Grand Avenue and Arrow Highway in Covina California. When Harry Snyder died in 1976 at the age of 63, they had opened 18 locations. So while most newlyweds were looking for houses or planning their families, the Snyders were basically revolutionizing the way people ate food. They are given much of the credit for creating the drive-thru with two-way speakers.

It was really Harry and Esther, still driving around with 'Just Married' in the back of a '57 Chevy, who changed the world forever. In-N-Out Used to Sell Only Bottles of Coca-Cola It may seem unheard of, but for its first decade, In-N-Out Burger didn't actually sell soda to its thirsty customers. Instead, they were selling ice-cold bottles of coke, which for some reason seem to taste a lot better. However, it was a huge inconvenience for everyone involved, especially if you tried to open one with burger grease on your hands, so in 1958, In-N-Out Burger finally relented and started selling fountain sodas.

What's even stranger (to people today) is that the price of a 12-ounce soda or soft drink was only ten cents and you could buy Coca-Cola and Pepsi (or both) at the same place. It was a simpler time when restaurants didn't have exclusive contracts with soda companies, so people could try competing sodas in the same restaurant. While that sounds great, they also didn't have six kinds of Mountain Dew, so maybe we have it better now after all. However, it is true that Coca-Cola or Pepsi Cola tastes better when it is very cold and comes out of a real glass bottle.

While it probably wasn't the most convenient thing to do back in the day when people didn't have cupholders, it sounds delicious enough to make us here want to take a road trip not only to the American Southwest but also to the late '50s. The Crossed Palm Trees If you've ever seen the 1963 movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World or the Cat Thief episode of The Simpsons (where there are "millions of dollars" buried under a big T), then you're familiar with the concept of treasure buried under trees or a letter-shaped sign. That idea stuck with In-N-Out Burger co-founder Harry Snyder, as most of his restaurants have two palm trees crossing each other in an "X" shape.

In the movies, the characters look for that originals marked their restaurants and made them feel very special. The real question is how many people have started digging through those trees because you never know, there might be a hamburger down there. MMM. That probably also explains why they haven't expanded beyond the southwestern part of the country, since they can't keep palm trees alive in the Rocky Mountains or the frozen tundra of states like Minnesota. In-N-Out loves to drag, baby Being a Southern California company, perhaps it should come as no surprise that In-N-Out Burger has a long association with drag racing, a quintessentially Southern California sport.

Co-founder Harry Snyder helped build a new drag racing track in Irwindale in 1965 by contributing 50 percent of its cost, which was more than just an act of kindness, as he also ended up supplying all the concession stands with his burgers. That love of racing must be genetic, as Snyder's only granddaughter and current sole owner of In-N-Out Burger, Lynsi Snyder, also spends a lot of time at the track, but not just as someone who loves to watch the sport. but also as a driver. According to the National Hot Rod Association, she has competed in the Super Gas and Top Sportsman Division 7 categories.

Of racing, she says, "I like the adrenaline" and said it was her father's love for the track that led her to do it. She's also an expert mechanic and repairs her own cars, so if you ever want a delicious burger and an oil change, you know where to shop! In-N-Out University Now you know that one of the reasons In-N-Out has resisted franchising its restaurants is that it wants to maintain a certain level of quality and control over its products. Beyond that, they tend to pay their employees much better than the competition and now we know why: because they are all college graduates.

What university, you ask? Well, In-N-Out Burger University. That's right, In-N-Out Burger has its own "University," which aims to train service staff and managers on how to maintain that quality across the board and was established in 1984. According to Bloomberg Business, about 80 percent percent of In-N-Out Burger N-Out Burger's managers graduated from In-N-Out Burger University, and considering they can (and often do) earn six figures a year, it seems like the investment was worth it. In-N-Out Burger was the muse of a classic rock album We've saved the most interesting information for last, as it turns out that In-N-Out Burger was responsible for one of the best rock albums of the 1980s.

In the book In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain that Breaks All the Rules, it is stated that Van Halen's 1986 chart-topping album, 5150, was basically driven solely by by In-N-Out Burgers (and we assume some illicit drugs). Former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar said in the book: "When I first joined the band, we ate there at least three days a week. We were in the studio recording 5150 and we would send someone out to get food." . , and we'd talk about sushi or pizza and we always ended up with In-N-Out." Speaking of Rock-N-Roll... Wait... Rock-N-Roll, In-N-Out... It all makes sense! now!

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