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Melanie Troxel plans with the In-N-Out Funny Car

Feb 3rd, 2010
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Drag racing superstar Melanie Troxel will return to the Funny Car ranks in 2010 behind the wheel of the In-N-Out Burger Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car. Troxel will banner the landmark restaurant at the eight NHRA national events that take place in California, Nevada, Arizona and Texas.

The agreement resurrects a successful partnering between Troxel and In-N-Out Burger from the late 1990s that was highlighted by Troxel’s second-place finish in the 1999 Top Alcohol Dragster national standings. In two seasons, Troxel won six races for In-N-Out Burger and claimed the ‘99 Division 6 title and ‘98 Division 5 runner-up honors.

“I am so excited that In-N-Out Burger is back in drag racing,” said Lynsi Martinez of In-N-Out Burger. “My father (H. Guy Snyder) had a passion for drag racing and that passion lives in me. Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out’s history and it is also an important part of my family history.

“It’s great to be reunited with Melanie. She is the perfect representative for us and she’s an exceptional driver. We are looking forward to a great season. It should be very exciting for both our In-N-Out family and our customers!”

Troxel’s early triumphs with In-N-Out led to her ascension to the professional ranks midway through the 2000 season when she was selected by mega-team owner Don Schumacher to pilot the Exide Batteries Top Fuel dragster vacated by his son Tony Schumacher, who was moving over to the newly-formed U.S. Army group.

Wasting little time in impressing her peers, Troxel quickly raced to a runner-up result in Dallas and was steady enough in just 10 races to be named the Auto Club Road to the Future award winner. The accolade, now saluting the sport’s top rookie, was given to Troxel as a racer “who had the best chance to make a mark in the sport of drag racing.”

She’s been living up to that billing ever since, racing Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Mod with great success. In her brief career, Troxel has raced her various hot rods to seven national event victories in 16 final-round showings. She also has four Low Qualifier awards to her credit and is known throughout the motorsports world as the quickest and fastest female racer.

“It’s very exciting to be back with In-N-Out Burger and to be racing a Funny Car again,” said Troxel, who will be tuned by veterans Lance Larson and Robb Hauser. “We had big plans with In-N-Out a decade ago and now the circumstances have come together for us to continue our partnership and move forward.

“I feel a real bond with Lynsi and her staff at In-N-Out and I really want to do well for them, both on and off the racetrack. Our team owner, Roger Burgess, has given us all the equipment we need to be successful and I think we can jump right back in the mix at Pomona. We’re all very excited to get started.”

Troxel won the Pomona race in 2006 to kick-off a record string of five straight final-round showings to start a season. The victory made her just the eighth female since 1951 to win an NHRA national event and the sixth female ever to win in the Top Fuel class. Her incredible season ended with Troxel being named Sportswoman of the Year by the Billie Jean King Foundation and her nomination for two ESPY awards (best driver and best female athlete).

Switching to Funny Car in 2008, Troxel proved just as lethal, winning the Bristol event to become just the second female in history to claim a trophy in the class.

Last year, Troxel drove a Pro Mod car for Burgess and managed to post the third quickest quarter-mile pass in history, a 5.829-second blast. She will still compete in the Pro Mod class in 2010, driving the In-N-Out Burger ‘63 Corvette at all 10 events in the NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series.

In 1948, the first In-N-Out Burger was founded by Harry and Esther Snyder in Baldwin Park, Calif. The basic menu of burgers, fries, and drinks is still the same one customers have enjoyed since the company’s inception 62 years ago. Everything is still made fresh to order and there are no microwaves or freezers in use.

Through careful and deliberate expansion, In-N-Out Burger now features restaurants throughout California, Nevada, and Arizona. In-N-Out Burger remains privately owned and the Snyder family has no plans to take the company public or franchise any units.

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Foreign students get up to speed on In-n-out and all things American

Jan 5th, 2010
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The topic was baseball and the class members, foreign graduate students recently arrived in the United States to attend the University of Southern California, were befuddled.
Not only were they struggling to follow the instructor’s litany of batting and pitching rules, they were mystified by the title of the hallowed championship games. Why is it called the World Series, one Chinese student wondered aloud, if all the teams in it are from North America?
Instructor Edward Roth was both taken aback and pleased. The grandiose title might reflect America’s arrogance about its national pastime, he acknowledged, but he also praised the question. It reflected the type of cross-cultural debate he encourages in a course aimed at helping these newcomers from overseas adjust to life in Los Angeles.
Then Roth reeled off some American sayings that spring from baseball: Step up to the plate. Knock it out of the park. Get your bases covered. Don’t drop the ball.
“These are very useful English phrases and we use them quite a bit,’’ he said. The 17 students, mainly master’s degree candidates from China, dutifully took notes.
Called “The United States: An American Culture Series,’’ the USC class is an unusual semester-long effort by the university to help its international students learn about the strange food, difficult idioms, and bewildering customs that surround them.
To succeed academically, the theory goes, foreign students must also adjust culturally and socially to their new surroundings. So in Roth’s class and four similar courses by other teachers, these are some of the topics: What are tailgate parties? What are baby vegetables? To whom should you give Christmas gifts? Is it an insult to call someone a couch potato?
By semester’s end, Jingjie “Ginger’’ Li, 22, a Chinese graduate student who is studying public administration, said she felt she could interact more easily with Americans. “Everybody from outside the country gets culture shock and needs to get over that,’’ said Li. The USC course, she said, gave her topics for conversations with American classmates and, more important, “taught us to express your own opinion.’’
The university has reason to offer the free, noncredit courses in American culture. For the eighth consecutive year, USC in the last academic year enrolled the largest contingent of foreign students of any US university last year: more than 7,500, or about a fifth of its enrollment.
Final numbers for the current school year are expected to be even higher, with India the largest exporter of students to USC and China second and growing fast, officials report.
The university has recruitment offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, and Tokyo, as well as in Mexico City, and it holds numerous events for prospective engineering students in India.
The culture courses began as an experiment last year with one section each semester and were expanded this fall to five sections, each meeting for two hours once a week for 12 weeks. Field trips took students to downtown Los Angeles, the California African American Museum, the Getty Center museum and, for gourmet tourism, an In-N-Out Burger drive-in. Total enrollment was about 60, mainly Chinese students with a sprinkling from India, Pakistan, and Turkey.
At USC, part of the goal is to ease international students’ isolation. Some say they feel trapped by their heavy academic loads, strong accents, shyness, and cultural confusion, while an alien universe of parties, study groups, and romances swirls about them.
Ironically, it can also be tough for many Chinese and Indian students to break out of their own national circles at USC because those groups are so large and are concentrated in engineering programs.
Electrical engineering student Fang Li, 23, said he was homesick his first few weeks at USC. He disliked American foods, except for turkey sandwiches and coffee, and lost weight. Now he is feeling better, partly because the American culture class “helped me adjust more quickly,’’ he said.
Still, he has yet to make strong friendships with Americans. He hopes to widen his circle soon and “become more familiar with the way American people think and the way they live.’’

The topic was baseball and the class members, foreign graduate students recently arrived in the United States to attend the University of Southern California, were befuddled.
Not only were they struggling to follow the instructor’s litany of batting and pitching rules, they were mystified by the title of the hallowed championship games. Why is it called the World Series, one Chinese student wondered aloud, if all the teams in it are from North America?
Instructor Edward Roth was both taken aback and pleased. The grandiose title might reflect America’s arrogance about its national pastime, he acknowledged, but he also praised the question. It reflected the type of cross-cultural debate he encourages in a course aimed at helping these newcomers from overseas adjust to life in Los Angeles.
Then Roth reeled off some American sayings that spring from baseball: Step up to the plate. Knock it out of the park. Get your bases covered. Don’t drop the ball.
“These are very useful English phrases and we use them quite a bit,’’ he said. The 17 students, mainly master’s degree candidates from China, dutifully took notes.
Called “The United States: An American Culture Series,’’ the USC class is an unusual semester-long effort by the university to help its international students learn about the strange food, difficult idioms, and bewildering customs that surround them.
To succeed academically, the theory goes, foreign students must also adjust culturally and socially to their new surroundings. So in Roth’s class and four similar courses by other teachers, these are some of the topics: What are tailgate parties? What are baby vegetables? To whom should you give Christmas gifts? Is it an insult to call someone a couch potato?
By semester’s end, Jingjie “Ginger’’ Li, 22, a Chinese graduate student who is studying public administration, said she felt she could interact more easily with Americans. “Everybody from outside the country gets culture shock and needs to get over that,’’ said Li. The USC course, she said, gave her topics for conversations with American classmates and, more important, “taught us to express your own opinion.’’
The university has reason to offer the free, noncredit courses in American culture. For the eighth consecutive year, USC in the last academic year enrolled the largest contingent of foreign students of any US university last year: more than 7,500, or about a fifth of its enrollment.
Final numbers for the current school year are expected to be even higher, with India the largest exporter of students to USC and China second and growing fast, officials report.
The university has recruitment offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, and Tokyo, as well as in Mexico City, and it holds numerous events for prospective engineering students in India.
The culture courses began as an experiment last year with one section each semester and were expanded this fall to five sections, each meeting for two hours once a week for 12 weeks. Field trips took students to downtown Los Angeles, the California African American Museum, the Getty Center museum and, for gourmet tourism, an In-N-Out Burger drive-in. Total enrollment was about 60, mainly Chinese students with a sprinkling from India, Pakistan, and Turkey.
At USC, part of the goal is to ease international students’ isolation. Some say they feel trapped by their heavy academic loads, strong accents, shyness, and cultural confusion, while an alien universe of parties, study groups, and romances swirls about them.
Ironically, it can also be tough for many Chinese and Indian students to break out of their own national circles at USC because those groups are so large and are concentrated in engineering programs.
Electrical engineering student Fang Li, 23, said he was homesick his first few weeks at USC. He disliked American foods, except for turkey sandwiches and coffee, and lost weight. Now he is feeling better, partly because the American culture class “helped me adjust more quickly,’’ he said.
Still, he has yet to make strong friendships with Americans. He hopes to widen his circle soon and “become more familiar with the way American people think and the way they live.’’

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/01/03/usc_gets_foreign_students_up_to_speed_on_all_things_american/

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Sheriff treats inmate to In-N-Out as part of settlement

Dec 9th, 2009
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For some people, a double-double at In-N-Out Burger will heal just about anything.

That, and $1,000.

County Counsel Charles McKee confirmed Monday that was the price paid to an inmate inadvertently left in the Salinas Courthouse’s basement holding cell overnight in September.

“My understanding is (the bailiffs) were moving people from holding to court and back, and in that process the gentleman was left in the holding cell,” McKee said. “My understanding is the sheriff did some direct outreach and talked to the guy and even took him to lunch.”

Sheriff Mike Kanalakis confirmed that he broke bread with the young man at In-N-Out after the episode, but said it was a chance encounter that provided him an opportunity to right a wrong.

Elisha McCoy, 21, of Havasu Lake was arrested in Salinas Aug. 29 for alleged possession of brass knuckles. The charge was reduced to a misdemeanor at his arraignment Sept. 1, but the judge declined to release him without bail. He was marched, shackled, back to the holding cell to await transport back to the county jail.

Only someone forgot he was there. When deputies opened the doors the next morning, they found McCoy, cold and hungry, still in the cell.

“Yes, there was a settlement right away,” said McKee.

There was also an internal investigation, said sheriff’s spokesman Cmdr. Mike Richards. The details are confidential because they deal with courthouse security, he said, but measures were taken to ensure a similar snafu doesn’t happen in the future.

McCoy returned to court Sept. 3 and was released on his own recognizance pending the outcome of the case. And that’s when he ran into Kanalakis.

Kanalakis said he was leaving the sheriff’s office one day about 11:45 a.m. when he saw McCoy on the street corner, talking into a cell phone and looking lost. He pulled over to ask if he needed help. McCoy said he needed a ride to his grandmother’s home to retrieve his car keys, then a lift to his car. The sheriff told him to jump in.

On the way to his grandmother’s, McCoy enlightened the uninformed sheriff about his adventures at the Salinas Courthouse. He told Kanalakis the County Counsel’s Office had already cut him a check.

Tracy Kirkbride, the deputy county counsel who handled the settlement, was out of the office Monday, but McKee and Kanalakis said they remember the payment being $1,000.

“He was a very nice, personable fellow,” Kanalakis said. “I asked if he was hungry. … He told me he hadn’t eaten yet and I offered to buy him lunch. It’s as simple as that.”

There was an In-N-Out Burger at the next exit, “and that’s where we landed,” Kanalakis said. “He ordered a double-double, fries and a Coke. He was hungry.”

Kanalakis said it’s not unusual for him to pull over and assist people in need.

“I do it frequently,” he said. “This guy just looked like he was a in a daze.”

The sheriff said he did not submit the lunch as a county expense. McCoy returns to court for a plea hearing Wednesday.

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http://www.montereyherald.com/crime/ci_13950151

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Two new In-N-Out Burger restaurants open in Utah

Nov 22nd, 2009
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November 19th, 2009 @ 3:08pm

DRAPER — Fans of In-N-Out Burger eagerly awaited Thursday morning’s grand opening of the first two restaurants along the Wasatch Front; one in Orem and the other in Draper.

In-N-Out Burgers usually opens at 10:30 a.m., but there was so much excitement the Draper location started serving up burgers at 9 a.m.

Marci Wallace and Kelli Davis, originally from California and former employees of an In-N-Out burger, lined up at 1 p.m. Wednesday. They said sleeping out in the cold was worth it.

Marci said, “The food is so good, we love it.”

“It’s so good, so worth it, every bite,” said Kelli.

“We just thought it would be a really fun experience and it has been,” Kelli said. “The associates were just so nice to us last night. We’ve been treated really well, and we’ve had a really good time.”

Behind them in line was another pair of loyal customers. D.J. said In-N-Out was more than just good burgers.

“For me it’s all about the experience and doing stuff like this,” he said. “You only live once and In-N-Out Burger, besides being the best burger in the world, they just have the best employees and associates, and everybody’s super friendly. They treat us right.”

November 19th, 2009 @ 3:08pm
DRAPER — Fans of In-N-Out Burger eagerly awaited Thursday morning’s grand opening of the first two restaurants along the Wasatch Front; one in Orem and the other in Draper.
In-N-Out Burgers usually opens at 10:30 a.m., but there was so much excitement the Draper location started serving up burgers at 9 a.m.
Marci Wallace and Kelli Davis, originally from California and former employees of an In-N-Out burger, lined up at 1 p.m. Wednesday. They said sleeping out in the cold was worth it.
Marci said, “The food is so good, we love it.”
“It’s so good, so worth it, every bite,” said Kelli.
“We just thought it would be a really fun experience and it has been,” Kelli said. “The associates were just so nice to us last night. We’ve been treated really well, and we’ve had a really good time.”
Behind them in line was another pair of loyal customers. D.J. said In-N-Out was more than just good burgers.
“For me it’s all about the experience and doing stuff like this,” he said. “You only live once and In-N-Out Burger, besides being the best burger in the world, they just have the best employees and associates, and everybody’s super friendly. They treat us right.”

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Jeremy also camped out overnight. He said there was nothing quite like In-N-Out. “You know, I tell kids young and old that if you eat In-N-Out every day, or as often as possible, your wildest dreams will come true.”

Noticeably absent from these northern Utah locations are the palm trees seen at the restaurant’s other locations.

Kristi Calmy, In-N-Out’s division manager, said, “We knew they just wouldn’t handle the weather out here, unfortunately. We might be able to have them for a couple of days, but if it’s any indication, we had a little plant outside yesterday. And it was gone.”

But the freshly cut fries, patties, and shakes made out of real ice cream is all the same. Calmy said, “Everything is fresh, made to order, no preservatives, everything is very, very fresh.”

Two more stores will soon open in West Jordan and American Fork. Carl Van Fleet, the vice president of Planning and Development for In-and-Out Burger said the West Jordan location should open in early December, and the American Fork restaurant will open a week after that.

Right now, all the positions at the Draper, Orem, and West Jordan locations have been filled. But Calmy said the company was always looking for good applicants, especially for its other locations.

“We’ve probably hired an average 50 to 60 associates for each location so far,” she said. “So, doing the math, when we continue to open more stores, we definitely are bringing some jobs out here, and we’re very excited about that.”

The starting wage is $10 an hour.

In-N-Out locations in Utah

Washington City, 832 W. Telegraph St.
American Fork, 601 W. Main St.
Draper, 12191 S. Factory Outlet Dr.
Orem, 350 E. University Pkwy.
West Jordan, 7785 Jordan Landing Ave.

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Denver, Seattle, and Portland in the lead

Nov 20th, 2009
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Based on over 2,800 votes cast so far in the informational poll, the users on the In-N-Out Book facebook fan page have put three cities neck-in-neck for the lead.

Denver, Seattle, and Portland are very even in the poll.

Make sure your favorite city gets a vote.  Go the poll here.

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Where would you like to see In-N-Out Burger expand next?

Nov 18th, 2009
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The poll below is strictly informational to try and quantify all of the opinions of facebook.  Please vote and come back to check the results.

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Lakers season, so far, is In-n-Out – OCRegister

Nov 17th, 2009
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Lakers season, so far, is In-n-Out
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Afterward, Andrew Bynum continued his great start to the season by generously swinging by In-n-Out Burger on the way from Staples Center to the airport, …

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Mainstreaming marijuana – Washington Post

Nov 16th, 2009
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Mainstreaming marijuana
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In parts of California, licensed medical marijuana dispensaries have become as common as In-N-Out Burger stands. At least 13 other states allow some form of …

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Police log: Gunmen rob liquor store – Tracy Press

Nov 16th, 2009
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Police log: Gunmen rob liquor store
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He said he was leaving In 'N Out Burger when two guys wearing ski masks and hooded sweatshirts, one of who had a knife, walked up to him at Tracy Truck and …

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In-n-out unfairly mentioned in this article

Nov 15th, 2009
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Boomers see views relaxing on marijuana
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In parts of California, licensed medical marijuana dispensaries have become as common as In-N-Out Burger stands. At least 13 other states allow some form of …

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