As a young woman, she battled through a period of alcohol and drug use and three divorces. She never graduated from college and lost her father to drug abuse. By all rights, her uncle should be running In-N-Out, if not for his untimely death. Snyder is an unlikely shepherd of her family’s business. In-N-Out is conservatively worth $3 billion, and Snyder now owns virtually all of it after receiving chunks on her 25th, 30th and 35th birthdays (she got the last slice in 2017). Revenue should surpass $1 billion this year, roughly doubling in eight years, and the business is debt-free, according to the company. That’s higher than In-N-Out’s East Coast rival Shake Shack (16%) and other restaurant chains that typically own their locations, like Chipotle (10.5%). (In-N-Out, which is private, won’t comment on its financials.) In-N-Out’s profit margin (measured by earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) is an estimated 20%. An In-N-Out store outsells a typical McDonald’s nearly twice over, bringing in an estimated $4.5 million in gross annual sales versus McDonald’s $2.6 million. “They have a loyalty and an enthusiasm for the brand that very, very few restaurants can ever obtain,” says Robert Woolway, who handles restaurant deals for the L.A.-based investment bank FocalPoint Partners. And in 2006 Paris Hilton got a DUI because, as she later explained, “I was just really hungry, and I wanted to have an In-N-Out burger.” The actor-cum-rapper Donald Glover has rhapsodized about In-N-Out in his lyrics. Top chefs like Gordon Ramsay, David Chang and Thomas Keller are all enthusiastic fans. Its secret menu, like the option to order a burger “protein style”-lettuce leaves, no bun-is the least well-kept secret since the WikiLeaks cables. In-N-Out has become a fixture at Oscars after-parties. The recipes for its burgers and fries have remained essentially the same for 70 years.Ĭonsistency has earned it a passionate following. (In-N-Out does not franchise.) Heat lamps, microwaves and freezers are banned from the premises. Nearly all its locations are in California, and all are company owned. Three central facilities grind all the (never-frozen) meat, delivering daily to the 333 restaurants. Buns are baked with slow-rising dough each morning. It hasn’t evolved much since Snyder’s grandparents founded it in 1948.
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