In-N-Out Burger (43 page)

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According to U.S. Census records and passenger ship manifests, Hendrick Snyder's name is spelled variously at different times as Harry, Hendrick, or Hendryck Snyder and Schneider.

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In 2004 the company built a bigger university, a two-story Spanish mission-style building, when it built the new store Number One on the opposite side of the university's parking lot.

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In-N-Out's fan-conspiracists like to point to the crossed palms at each store as evidence of this. In fact, they are a nod to Harry Snyder's favorite movie,
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
, in which hidden treasure is buried beneath four palms that form a “W.”

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The trusts' share amounts are as of court filings in 2005 and 2006.

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As it turned out, there was no happy ending for Hot ‘n Now. During the next seven years, the chain expanded from seventy-seven to two hundred stores before it began to fail; eventually, all but seventy-five locations closed, and PepsiCo sold the chain to an entrepreneur named Ron Davis. According to
Nation's Restaurant News
, PepsiCo recorded a $103 million charge against its restaurant subsidiary earnings in fiscal 1995 that was almost entirely attributed “to the write-off of Hot ‘n Now.” By 2005, the chain had dwindled to fourteen stores and Davis sold it to STEN Corporation for $175,000 in bankruptcy proceedings.

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A year later, in 1991, the street was officially renamed Hamburger Lane.

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In-N-Out continued this practice following Rich Snyder's death.

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One thought Rich did express, however, was that he would not consider putting an In-N-Out in Hawaii. One of his favorite holiday spots, he didn't want to spoil his vacation with work.

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Tanner served as In-N-Out's CFO from 1991 to 1996.

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In Mexico, most of these drugs are available on an over-the-counter basis.

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According to the Office of the Assessor of Los Angeles County, the house was sold in March 2007 for $1.215 million

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1968 was the year that McDonald's introduced the Big Mac nationally.

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During the previous eleven months, McDonald's had nothing but consecutive months of negative same-store sales.

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In 2007, Boulud announced the opening of a new New York casual brassierie featuring, of course, his signature hamburger.

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Burger King came in eighth and Wendy's, sixth.

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This is an excerpt of the entire transcript.

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In 1959, General Dynamics constructed Disneyland's fleet of “atomic” submarines for its $2.5 million Submarine Voyage attraction. It was one of the park's first e-ticket rides.

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Simplot died on May 24, 2008. A year earlier, at ninety-eight years old, Simplot was listed as the 214th richest American (and oldest living billionaire) on the
Forbes 400
.

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In an exception for the large chains, Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers would use fresh, not frozen, beef patties.

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In 1973, television producers Sid and Marty Krofft successfully sued McDonald's and its advertising agency for copyright infringement, claiming the McDonaldland characters were a rip-off of the Kroffts' own popular children's show
H.R. Pufnstuf
. The judgment was decided in 1977.

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Burger King waited until May 17, 2006, before going public. By then, it had a market capitalization of some $2.1 billion, and the company raised $489 million.

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In 1966, ten years before Harry died, Walt Disney's cremated remains were interred at Forest Lawn's Glendale memorial park—not (as widely rumored) cryogenically preserved in order to bring him back to life one day in the future when technological advances would be able to thaw his body and cure his disease.

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On January 30, 2008, In-N-Out released a statement that it had ended its relationship with the California meat supplier Hallmark/Westland after inspectors found that the company used downer cows, and the USDA initiated a huge recall of the company's meat. In-N-Out assured its customers that no meat from Hallmark/Westland was in the company's system and that it never purchased processed patties or ground beef from any suppliers.