White Castle Building No. 8, originally built in 1936 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and later remodeled. The castle-like features mimic Chicago's Water Tower Pumping Station. White Castle no longer operates this building, which is currently an antique shop.
White Castle is an American regional hamburgerrestaurant chain with about 345 locations across 13 states, with its greatest presence in the Midwest and New York metropolitan area.[6] 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.[7] In the 1940s, White Castle periodically ran promotional ads in local newspapers which contained coupons offering five burgers for ten cents, takeout only.[8][9] In 2014, Time named the White Castle slider "The Most Influential Burger of All Time".