White Castle 80 Year Celebration

The other day our area (Cincinnati) local White Castles had a special promotion for their 80th year in the area.

8 White Castle for 80 cents
1 cup of coffee for 5 cents

The coffee was sold all day the special on slyders was a 6pm-8pm.

They sold:

125,000 cups of nickel coffee
240,000 slyders

What a way to celebrate 80 years.

(BTW: Yes the slyders were good)


edited to add location

I'll trade you all our McDonalds for one White Castle store.

Sorry EC

NO DEAL!



I would gladly GIVE you our McD, but i will keep my Chateau LeBlanc's

I can send you some used empty slyder boxes (so at least you can smell them)

Enginecapt, at least you've got INO burgers to console you in California. I'd throw in all our Wendy's, BK's & Mickey D's for a Whitey down here. Oh well, dream on.
Meantime we do have Krystals in the area.

QFan
Bonita Springs, FL

I wish I was in Cincinnati for there 80th celebration! I would have bought a truckload to bring down to FL with me. The one thing I miss about NY now that I have moved to FL is White Castle! Krystal just can't compare. I know how you feel QFan. Last year we went to Nashville and I think we ate at white castle almost everyday!

White Castle hamburgers are terrific in my opinion. Love them when they are fresh and hot. Nothing compares. Krystal hamburgers don't even come close to them in greatness. As a former "northerner" now in Florida, boy do I miss them alot.

White Castle's is a strange business. They've been around for a very long time (I think 1921), but they are such a conservative company and for some reason they are extremely reticent to expand into new markets and states. I don't understand their thinking. I think they could run circles around most of the fast food hamburger joints in most places (especially the Checkers and Sonics down here in Florida) but choose for some reason not to expand.

I know they have their detractors, but I think there are many more fans of White Castles than not and I think they would be tremendously successful if they went nationwide. Actually, they used to be in Miami years ago. At the DesPlaines, Illinois White Castles there is a WC historical display with pictures of the former White Castles store in Miami that no longer exists because it was far away from their supply source. Let's all write to White Castles and get them to see the light.

"but i will keep my Chateau LeBlanc's"

Maybe I've been under a rock, but that's a new one on me. Love it!

Too bad the nearest Chateau is in my old neighborhood, 200-odd miles away.

WC is very conservative about expansion, because there are places where they have failed like Kansas City. Before closing completely, many WC outlets there also sold Church's chicken. I guess not everyone has the taste for sliders...

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Originally posted by Rt66Mike

WC is very conservative about expansion, because there are places where they have failed like Kansas City. Before closing completely, many WC outlets there also sold Church's chicken. I guess not everyone has the taste for sliders...

The failure in KC wasn't all that long ago either. Which is kind of odd when you think about the fact that they started out in Wichita, just down the Kansas turnpike a bit.

QFan
Bonita Springs, FL

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Originally posted by QFan

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Originally posted by Rt66Mike

WC is very conservative about expansion, because there are places where they have failed like Kansas City. Before closing completely, many WC outlets there also sold Church's chicken. I guess not everyone has the taste for sliders...

The failure in KC wasn't all that long ago either. Which is kind of odd when you think about the fact that they started out in Wichita, just down the Kansas turnpike a bit.

QFan
Bonita Springs, FL

At least we still have the Cozy Inn in Salina still going strong with their sliders

Figure that 240,000 white castles equal about 1/4 side of beef. An impressive number tho. I remember how long the McD's marque said over 1 million sold.
britt