More than 80 years.
More than 380 restaurants.
More than 500,000,000 burgers
sold last year
alone.
But when you add it up, the by-the-numbers White
Castle math just can't compare to the steam-grilled
science of creating that signature Slyder. Or the
consistent history of high quality and great taste that
turned fast food into big business and jumpstarted
the nation's first hamburger century. (Well, almost a
century: meat rationing during World War II forced us
to sell hot dogs and eggs.) Or, most of all, the
shared secret language of committed Cravers across
the country, the words and senses that turn all of you
into One of Ours.
Still, math is pretty fundamental. Mostly because, in
White Castle mathematics (crunched at our
Columbus, Ohio, headquarters), the number one
keeps popping up.
First fast-food hamburger chain ever. First industrial-
strength spatula. First mass-produced paper hat. First
to sell a million hamburgers. First to sell a billion
hamburgers. First frozen fast food for sale.
All of which, of course, makes us your number one.
Hold your applause for your next burgers.