Californians have grown up appreciating the company’s virtues while the rest of the country slavers from afar.

But control of the burger chain will pass in 2012 to Lynsi Martinez, 27. Once she takes formal ownership, if she declares In-N-Out will henceforth sell only Broccoli Burgers, or will dispense prayers rather than food, her word will be law.

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