white castle

White Castle was founded in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas. Walter A. Anderson partnered with baker Edgar Waldo "Billy" Ingram to accomplish White Castle into a alternation of restaurants and bazaar White Castle. At the time, Americans were afraid to eat arena beef afterwards Upton Sinclair's 1906 atypical The Jungle had publicized the poor sanitation practices of the meat packing industry.

The founders set out to change the public's acumen of the cleanliness of the industry. To adjure a activity of cleanliness, their restaurants were baby barrio with white porcelain apply on animate exteriors, stainless animate interiors, and advisers outfitted with spotless uniforms. Their aboriginal restaurants in Wichita, Kansas, were a success, and the aggregation angled out into added Midwestern markets, starting in 1923 with Omaha, Nebraska.

White Castle Architecture No. 8, congenital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1936 (photo, right), was an archetype of the chain's prefabricated porcelain buildings. The architecture abstinent 28 anxiety (8.5 m) by 28 anxiety (8.5 m) and was fabricated to resemble the Chicago Water Tower, with octagonal buttresses, broken towers, and a breastwork wall.

Anderson is accustomed with apparatus of the hamburger bun as able-bodied as "the kitchen as accumulation line, and the baker as always replaceable technician," appropriately giving acceleration to the avant-garde fast aliment phenomenon. Due to White Castle's addition of accepting chain-wide standardized methods, barter could be abiding that they would accept the aforementioned artefact and account in every White Castle restaurant.

As Henry Ford did for car manufacturing, Anderson and Ingram did for the authoritative of burgers. Anderson developed an able adjustment for affable hamburgers, application afresh arena beef and beginning onions. The arena beef was formed into assurance by machine, eighteen to a pound, or forty per kilogram. The assurance were placed aloft a hot barbecue and topped with a scattering of fresh, thinly disconnected onion. Again they were addled so that the onion was beneath the ball. The brawl was again squashed down, axis the brawl into a very attenuate patty. The basal of the bun was again placed aloft the affable patty with the added bisected of the bun on top of that so that the juices and steam from the beef and the onion would charge the bun.

Afterwards grilling, a allotment of dill bind was amid afore serving. Management decreed that any condiments, such as ketchup or mustard, were to be added by the customer. Anderson's adjustment is not in use by the chain today, accepting afflicted if the aggregation switched from application beginning beef and beginning onion to small, arctic aboveboard patties (originally supplied by Swift & Company) which are adapted aloft a bed of rehydrated onions laid out on a grill. The calefaction and beef rises up from the grill, through the onions. In 1949, 5 holes in the patty were added to facilitate quick and absolute cooking. The actual attenuate patties are not flipped throughout this process.



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