White Castle (restaurant)

For other uses, see White Castle (disambiguation).

White Castle Management Co.
White Castle
Company typePrivate
IndustryRestaurants
GenreFast food
FoundedSeptember 13, 1921; 103 years ago (1921-09-13)
Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
Founders
  • Billy Ingram[1]
  • Walter Anderson
Headquarters
Columbus, Ohio
,
U.S.
Number of locations
345 (2024)
Areas served
Key people
Lisa Ingram (CEO)[2][3]
ProductsHamburgers, french fries, breakfast, soft drinks, milkshakes
RevenueUS$ 720.6 million[4] Increase (2019)
OwnerIngram family
Number of employees
10,000[5]
Websitewhitecastle.com

White Castle is an American regional hamburger restaurant chain with about 345 locations across 13 states, with its greatest presence in the Midwest and New York metropolitan area.[6][7] Founded on September 13, 1921, in Wichita, Kansas, White Castle has been generally credited as the world's first fast-food hamburger chain.[2] It is known for its small, square hamburgers commonly referred to as "sliders". The burgers were initially priced at five cents until 1929 and remained at 10 cents until 1949.[8] In the 1940s, White Castle periodically ran promotional ads in local newspapers which contained coupons offering five burgers for ten cents, takeout only.[9][10] In 2014, Time named the White Castle slider "The Most Influential Burger of All Time".

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  2. ^ a b Kieler, Ashley (July 14, 2015). "The White Castle Story: The Birth Of Fast Food & The Burger Revolution". Consumerist.
  3. ^ Maze, Jonathan (December 22, 2015). "Lisa Ingram to be next White Castle CEO". Nation's Restaurant News.
  4. ^ "White Case Revenue Increase". www.whitecastle.com.
  5. ^ "White Case Employees". www.whitecastle.com.
  6. ^ "White Castle's Impossible Sliders Now Available at All Locations". QSR Mag. September 12, 2018. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
  7. ^ "Number of White Castle restaurants in the United States in 2023". Scrapehero. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
  8. ^ "White Castle Offers 27 Cent Burgers". QSR magazine. May 23, 2008. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  9. ^ "The White Castle Story: The Birth Of Fast Food & The Burger Revolution – Consumerist". Consumerist. July 14, 2015. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  10. ^ Danna, Nicole; Doss, Laine (September 30, 2015). "White Castle's Crave Mobile Coming to Magic City Casino in November". Miami New Times. Retrieved December 27, 2017.