Young Billionaire says she stood 2 hours in queue to get a job at own company
Billionaire Lynsi Snyder, the heiress of In-N-Out Burger, began her career at her grandfather's business preparing food and serving customers in order to get respect
Lynsi Snyder, In-N-Out Burger heiress, is a billionaire who conveys that she started out working serving people, standing in queue and prepping food at her grandfather’s company to earn respect because she didn’t want special treatment.
In-N-Out Burger is an American regional fast food restaurant franchise with outlets predominantly in California and, to a lesser degree, in the Southwest from Oregon to Texas. Harry and Esther Snyder started it in Baldwin Park, California, in 1948.
“My grandparents, y’know, came from very humble beginnings,” Lynsi told Today.
Following Harry’s death in 1976, Rich Snyder, his son, and Lynsi’s uncle, took over the business until he and another In-N-Out executive perished in a plane crash in 1993. Then, until he died in 1999 from an overdose of prescription drugs, Guy Snyder, Lynsi’s father, assumed leadership. At the age of 17, Lynsi was the sole surviving straight-blood relative after his death.
Snyder says that at the age of 17, she stood in queue
In her book ‘The Ins-N-Outs of In-N-Out Burger’, Snyder says that at the age of 17, she stood in queue for two hours outside a new In-N-Out restaurant in Redding, Calif., eager to secure a summer job at the chain as a waitress and kitchen help. By the time she was 24, Snyder was working as a manager at the chain, she told Orange Coast Magazine.
“I think that there’s a stigma that can come with being, you know, the owner’s kid, and just wanting to be respected, like others, doing it the right way, and not having the special treatment,” Snyder told NBC’s Today of her application to work at one of the chain’s restaurants in Redding, California.
Snyder did not reveal her identity to her coworkers, aiming to be treated like an ordinary salaried employee. Snyder became one of the youngest female billionaires in the US when she was appointed to president of the family firm in 2010 at the age of 27, before obtaining complete control of the fast food chain in 2017, with a net worth of $6.7 billion.
The 41-year-old’s quick ascension through In-N-Out, which her grandparents founded, was partly owing to a succession of deaths and internal legal turmoil, and the business now aims to expand to other states.
Currently, In-N-Out operates in eight states (California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Colorado, and Idaho) with little over 400 locations. Plans to grow into Tennessee, New Mexico, and Washington State have been made public.
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