WildaBeast:
I’m nitpicking here, but In-N-Out doesn’t franchise. The company is still a family owned business controlled by the descendants of the original founder, and every restaurant in the chain is owned by that family. The current In-N-Out heiress, Lynsi Snyder, has stated she has no plans to franchise .
Not only that, but I read an article some years ago that the biggest hindrance to their expansion was finding local suppliers, specifically the never-frozen burger patties and bun bakeries.
monstro
December 10, 2019, 6:57pm
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Good to know! Thanks!
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McDonald’s, Burger King or Five Guys for me, in that order, but I’d just as soon go to Arby’s if there’s one around. Don’t you judge me!
RioRico
December 11, 2019, 7:55am
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I was a dirt-poor vagabond when in WC territory so long ago. A few years later, when I’d graduated from sub-minimum-wage to barely-minimum-wage jobs, I took to the west coast’s Munchies chain, with ten burgers for a buck. That was a working schlub’s lunch. But earlier, WC was not available around Manhattan’s East and West Village areas.
I applaud WC for being the first of its kind to emphasize CLEANLINESS. That was the WHITE of White Castle: road food without dirt, prepared by white-clad minions. Before WC, burgers were trash. Of course, lobster was trash food long ago, too. Maybe WC will seem gourmet eventually.
I hardly eat burgers anymore, but when I do, it’s a BK bacon double cheeseburger…plain (no toppings at all). Just the right combination of grease and bun, with nothing to distract you.
fedman
June 1, 2020, 1:14am
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pulykamell:
Were they expensive where you were? They are the absolutely cheapest burger you can get, but maybe not for their size. Still, today, a burger is something like 79 cents there. That said, I’d consider a reasonable serving to be 3-4 burgers, but I can be satisfied with just 2 as a snack (they’re about 140 calories each for the plain burger.)
Maybe, maybe not. They are their own thing. It seems people either love or hate them. They’re not like a normal hamburger, and I hate it when restaurants offer their own mini-hamburgers and call them “sliders.” Sliders are not just mini-burgers. There’s a particular cooking method to them over onions that gives the bun steamed texture and oniony flavor, and the burger itself is not browned as much as a normal burger. They originated in New Jersey, and there are a number of non-White Castle places out there that serve burgers in the same style. See White Manna in Hackensack, for example. A somewhat similar style with full sized patties is the Oklahoma onion burger.
sorry, WC started in Wichita, KS
fedman
June 1, 2020, 1:16am
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Elendil_s_Heir:
McDonald’s, Burger King or Five Guys for me, in that order, but I’d just as soon go to Arby’s if there’s one around. Don’t you judge me!
Arby’s is not a hamburger place, which is topic
in some places the meaning behind the term “sliders” for burgers isn’t a nice one …
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Tommys. Their chili-cheeseburgers are to die for.
Elendil_s_Heir:
McDonald’s, Burger King or Five Guys for me, in that order, but I’d just as soon go to Arby’s if there’s one around. Don’t you judge me!
Does Arby’s have hamburgers? I thought they more followed a deli style menu now.
Arby’s does have great sandwiches though. Good Reubens.
I personally think Culver’s Hamburger is best.
fedman
June 1, 2020, 1:42am
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Wesley_Clark:
Does Arby’s have hamburgers? I thought they more followed a deli style menu now.
Arby’s does have great sandwiches though. Good Reubens.
I personally think Culver’s Hamburger is best.
Have you tried their Greek gyros yet? Great, esp for price, right now 2 @$6, don’t know what sauce they’re using so add my own tzatino