In-N-Out to close first location in its 75-year history due to a wave of car break-ins and robberies

https://lemmy.world/post/11193531

In-N-Out to close first location in its 75-year history due to a wave of car break-ins and robberies - Lemmy.World

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.

Ah yes just like all the other stores that “closed due to theft”

Oakland

But then again…

People here trying to make this about masking bad business decisions etc don’t live in Oakland. I live here, it’s really bad right now.

I was joking with a friend that a lot of Oakland feels like a bad 80s dystopia film…like you know those scenes with hobos warming themselves around a burning oil drum, stripped and burned out cars everywhere, piles of trash, drug addicts and prostitution wandering around, etc? That’s literally real life in a large part of east Oakland.

It’s like a literal Hoovertown.

This is the reality the politicians aren’t dealing with. Give me a politician that can look reality in the eye, tell me it exists, and tries to do something to improve it.

I like Sanders, but I don’t see many making the right noises.