“White Castle” Arguably America’s First Fast Food Burger Joint
They Now Serve Breakfast
I drive by a White Castle every day at approximately 5 am and marvel at the line-up of cars in the drive-thru line. It was about this time I realized White Castle must be offering breakfast or people like the burgers this early in the morning. I was happy it was the former, and breakfast was on the menu. Why so excited for breakfast in the morning from White Castle?
For those of you not from the midwest, White Castle was started in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921 with the first restaurant opening in 1924. A few years later, they decided to move to a more central part of the United States, and Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio became the locations of choice. Holding to the White Castle name, the building facade looks like that of a white-colored castle. This general design is still being used to this day.
White Castle, to me, was always considered a lower-caliber type of burger. I worked for a boss that would often offer to buy lunch if we performed an out-of-the-ordinary task. Lunch, in his opinion, was best when he could buy it from the “low cost” White Castle. Burgers were cheap because they were so…
