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.

  • stevehobbes@lemy.lol
    23·
    10 months ago

    You’re getting downvotes, presumably from people who haven’t spent any time in NorCal. This is a problem everywhere there from Oakland, to SF, to Palo Alto and San Jose. No where in the bay in safe from this.

    No locals leave anything of value in there car for any amount of time.

    I learned that in 2013 when my rental was broken into in a fancy Palo Alto restaurant.

    But these aren’t violent crimes, which I think are declining, just property crimes.

    • jimbolauski@lemm.ee
      32·
      10 months ago

      If you go resturants around lunch you’ll see a bunch of people with a laptop bag or backpack but they don’t get their computers out. Companies tell their employees to never leave laptops in their cars, even for just a minute.