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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Passing: Esther Snyder, Founder of In-N-Out-Burger

From Associated Press:

IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 6 — Esther L. Snyder, who with her husband founded the popular West Coast restaurant chain In-N-Out Burger, died on Aug. 4. She was 86.

Esther and Harry Snyder opened the first In-N-Out drive-through stand in Baldwin Park, Calif., in 1948. In-N-Out now has 202 restaurants in Arizona, California and Nevada.

The Snyders’ business plan was simple: Serve fresh burgers in a drive-through restaurant using two-way speakers. While her husband ran the day-to-day operations, Mrs. Snyder was in charge of the books and occasionally helped in the kitchen by molding meat patties by hand and slicing tomatoes and onions.

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