In-N-Out president to move out of California as chain expands east: 'Not easy here'

The heiress to the In-N-Out Burger chain, which started and was founded in California, is moving with her family to Tennessee as business is getting more difficult in the deep blue state.

“There’s a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here," Lynsi Snyder told political commentator Allie Beth Stuckey on a podcast. “Doing business is not easy here. We’re building an office in Franklin, so I’m actually moving out there."

Snyder has served as the president of the company since 2010. However, even though "the bulk" of their locations are in California, she will be going to Tennessee to be near an office location in Franklin, just a little south of Nashville.

“It will be wonderful having an office out there, growing out there and being able to have the family and other people’s families out there," she added. According to the New York Post, Snyder is a mother to four kids and married Sean Ellingson in 2014.

In-N-Out was founded by Snyder's grandparents in 1948, and the company plans to close its Irvine headquarters by 2030. “My uncle opened the office in Irvine … in the ‘90s,” Snyder added. "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,’ and 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," she added.

Snyder said that those working at the corporate office in Irvine will be transferred to the Baldwin office or be sent over to Tennessee, where the first restaurant locations will open in 2026.

“We’re able to reach Tennessee from our Texas warehouse,” Snyder said. “So we’re not putting our meat facility, where we do all of our beef and send it to our stores [to] make patties, we’re not going to have that there. We’ll 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.”