Why Isn’t White Castle A Fast-Food Giant? 

Like immortal technique.

Don't insult White castle with a rapper

@@myownpath1046 obviously you dont know about immortal technique...

@@myownpath1046 Racist

I think it's profitable as a tourist attraction.

Awesome

That's really cool.

What an awesome story.

Fast food made me so fat.

@@billted3323 you made your self fat

Exactly. You can clearly be big and successful but not that big giving up control of your own company.

@Derek Young Not quite there several business that haven't sold out to corporate America, like Chick-fil-A, Golden Coral, Jersey Mike's Subs etc. not everyone is a sellout to the love of money.

Exactly! They are doing just fine.

They got 'tegrity!

Same with InNOut

More $$$ more problems. I like that they are not trying to compete with anyone. Glad we have them.

@@Dina_Darling yes, the end goal of life is to be happy n stress free.

Family-owned businesses have issues too. The most common ones are the in-fightings.

@@chiensyang water is wet yes...

you can also make burgers out of weed. fullo tegridy.

Hahaha! John, you are clearly a businessman. Brilliant!

^ honestly

John M Flores Great Idea!! IN Detroit many years ago in High School we would occasionally hitch hike to White Castle,, 5 hamburgers for 1.25 cents.

We have inn out burgers, 1000 times better! W/C is crap💩💨✨

Random Person thank you... so tired of pointlessly long, overly analytical videos on youtube. At least make the title different if you’re going to take forever & beat around the bush to the answer of the title.

@@KevinAndrewRea except this isn't "overly analytical," it's very clearly a history of the restaurant

Well even I could've guessed that

Legend.

Jonas Hulse - I know right 😕. Thats what I said.

Did you have milkshakes? They were thick and not to sweet 😊

don't trust interviews.... the owner of one place i worked at is a strict suit and tie (older generation style) -- nothing wrong with that but they made him dress up in a hoodie, jeans and stuff when doing an interview for a spot during the super bowl because we are from the midwest and they wanted to give an image .... it was pretty dumb tbh, and everyone at work just laughed when we saw it on tv... you would never see that guy leave his house without a suit on

wnxdafriz Interesting... Very interesting...

Except for her eyebrows...

I’d smash

You can also see her helping out in the kitchen making burgers @8:54

Except none of you have watched the video. White Castle is literally doing what you say they’re not. The video talks about them accepting a deal from a massive money hungry corporation in China. They also have locations in Singapore and Japan. Also a “family company” in Las Vegas. This is only the beginning.

@@JohnDoe-zq1ho but they are being very selective on their choices

not all the time going big is better ...if your still turning a profit I dont see the problem

@@JohnDoe-zq1ho but they aint mcdonalds tho lol

@@JohnDoe-zq1ho They aren't hyperexpanding like they used to the in the 80's. Opening like 4 stores in the span of a couple of years internationally is TINY.

Mpls here, frozen is just as good.

@@jadedngreen frozen is pretty good. We buy them all the time.... just my opinion... Frozen is not as good as "fresh" :)

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@@joshuawoo7026 lol 😂

There are 3 white castles in Las Vegas, if you ever go there. Same juicy burgers as back east.

This comment is only a month old, how long ago did u see one in Vegas?

@@j-duhdripper8001 I went back in 2015. Is it gone now ..??

It’s in Casino ROYALE. In between Harrah’s & the Venetian

There is one on Fremont St.. Open 24 hours.

There is also one across from Virgin Hotels, the old Hard Rock

lol, I'd like to see arena's and stadiums charge 89 cent burgers, that'd be the day.

There aren’t enough bathrooms to sustain all the people eating White Castle 😭

i see white castle at walmart stores lol frozen isle

The Pepsi center sells local brewed beers

Very hard to get into these places.

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way less stressful without investors pushing you to grow profits every quarter

Almost like public interest are not a good thing

Yes.....money matters

why does there have to be ever more growth please tell me why? if there is enough profit there is no need to expand

i did not know that either. i was in nyc

I grew up in Ohio and I also assumed they were everywhere.

I live in Columbus ohio too & love them! I'm currently in grove city on business & about to walk across the street to white castle lol

Closest one to me is 3 hours away :(

Donatos is the same way man

Sounds like my kinda after party lol.

😆 that's how u do it o.g

the virtue signal is tacky

@@seabreeze4559 stfu

Ah yes the soca/west indian clubs in Queens. I would either go to White Castle, Liberty Express or one of the various 24 hr diners.

@Tommy Strawn Yep!

Same for me when I get to NYC.

Colin Yapp Yes sir!

Tommy Strawn I flew into O’Hare

Same here!!! 63 rd and Cicero one of the better ones👍

Why I'm laughing

Goat curry?

Why not black cave Here in Asia we have yellow sushi temple

I'm 69th like

Nice😂😂😂

Asia: *Laughs in tea*

This guy has seen The Founder

So

Nah nah, that's the Catholic Church.

@@slikdude12592 or he's read Rich Dad Poor Dad

@Viva Dominicana I guess the truth is funnier than fiction, lol?

Boring Person cus they just don’t care about their old community.

@@Warrenmitchum there is an "agreement" with kings x/Jimmys dinner that white castle can't open a location here. Kings x is where the founder worked when he created the patties.

If you go to Salina, Kansas there is a very similar place called Cozy Inn. It sells almost identical burgers, they only have soda and chips besides that, they have a walk up "drive through" window and the same counters and stools from the 1950s. There is a replica of the restaurant (owned by someone else) in Manhattan Kansas (right in aggieville, the Kansas State University bar district).

That’s not really irony though....

@@Eric_Schon Kings X was bulldozed in 2012. Where did you hear this agreement?

Exactly Massive Company =/= Successful Company. Going public and relying on profit oriented investors and stock owners is what killed many companies from a consumer's point of view and even in a literal point of view in some cases, many game companies and stories like that of GE fit this category.

that's what she said

That was exactly what was said in this video

Elizabeth L ray Kroc stole McDonald’s and ousted the brothers out of their brand

thaintriguing1 Exactly. The exactly the opposite of what happen here. What is crazy? It is such a slippery slope partnering with people.

@@thaintriguing1 He didn't steal anything. They made a bad deal and regretted it later. White Castle's Ingram bought out it's founder, Anderson, in the same way.

Faber thank you.

Faber lmao no he stole it. They made a good deal and he found a loophole to destroy them

Brown arches

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "WHERE" AND "WERE"!!

@@user-um7tw6kx4r6 it was a typo, get a grip...

In what universe is a 3 hour drive to White Castle worth it? Or were u recreating the movie ?

Lol that's crazy! just for white castle? An hour I can justify

Sounds like an awesome road trip 😎

@@pdigi3179 YOLO

Sounds awesome. Last night wife son and I drove only 40 miles to our closest one. WORTH IT!

Stay away from weeeeeeeeeeeeeeb

They ate cockmeat sandwich as well

@@jays5926 Big Bob served them well.

@@jays5926 with extra dickcheese.

YEAH AND THE BEASTIE BOYS GAVE THEM CRED IN THE 80S

they don't have WC in Texas tho...

That is high praise from Texans. As you saw in this video, Whataburger, a Texas chain, has incredible brand loyalty, behind only WC and In-n-Out.

got one down the road from me in ledgewood,nj lmao:)))))

*laughs in NYC*

Cries from KS..

*laughs in California* ain’t no way it’s better than in-n-out

laughs in vilnius never head of white castle nor any other irrelevant restaurant

Brian W lol wtf are you saying?

A very good infomercial. Great Ad.

iPamaj1 GT he’s stating facts

Alumic what facts ?

AOC will destroy fast food hamburger restaurants. Get use to eating Saw Dust Burgers and paying for dental care to maintain Beaver Teeth like.............

They have one in Vegas.

Come see me at paradise rd location

Since you are in California, there is another privately owned burger-restaurant-chain you can go to, In-And-Out; unless you do not like In-And-Out.

@@chiensyang I'm a huge fan of In and Out and I use that restaurant regularly when I can afford it. However it's just not the same.

@@chiensyang in and out is not White Castle... Tf 🤣

sometimes Dollar Tree has 2 packs for 1.00

They sell in Walmart too in Georgia. They’re alright. I put on my own slices of cheese though.

The veggie burger at White Castle, was probably one of the best veggie burgers, I've ever had. If White Castle had a location in Texas, I would go there for their veggie burgers, but as for their regular burgers, places like Culvers, What A Burger, In and Out, Country Burger...etc... are better. Based on news articles, it appears that they are bringing "one" White Castle to Florida in Orlando, near Disney World. My first experience with eating a White Castle burger was from the frozen food section, and it was not good. Like many who were not previously familiar with that place, because it's not in every location, the movie Harold and Kumar drew interest to it. A few years ago, when I was traveling across the United States, I saw a White Castle in Missouri, and tried both the hamburger slider and the veggie burder slider. I've had much better burgers in Texas, so White Castle doesn't really rank up there with anything great, in my opinion. But I can understand those who were raised on it, having a strong preference for it, just like a lot of people in California like Carls Jr, which I also don't care for.

My state has the corporate headquarters and at few dozen of them.. none closer than an hours drive though.. which sadly me and my buddies have been known to make for no other reason than to go to white castles. i never understood it either. it's ok but it's not like I think it's better than other burger joints. hell, I prefer Checkers/Rallies and it's only 5 minutes away..

Same!

If I'm going to Texas, it's whataburger! White cat can't compare to whataburger

@@1towmater1 True that sir.

Dont worry man im here crying in british

White Castle is the Immortal Technique of hip-hop.

@@UlayothEU man i'm crying in asian

I’m in Michigan and hell yeah!

Isn't there a Crystal's down there? Suppose to be like the southern White Castle.

The fact that they ignore the southern United States tells you that they ain't really serious about making real money.

@@keithkelson726 Exactly

I just think they don't want to compete with Krystal for the south.

No most people would know that it's actually the economy and other franchises. You're competiting against Mc Donald's, In & out, taco Bell, Chipotle, Wendy's, Canes etc.

@@keithkelson726 I agree. And certain metropolitan areas are guaranteed successes. Boston, Philadelphia, DC, Charlotte, Atlanta. All of which White Castle has ignored. I just don't get it. Their cult status alone would guarantee them selling out in their first days of opening in these particular markets. Their expansion model seems kinda backwards to me.

LOL !!!!! I was looking for a comment like this! YES!!!!! Thought she had two Nike Air Max's on upside down!

😂😂😂😂😂

bruh :-) :-)

hahhahahahahhaha

Best laugh all day

AHAHAHAHAHA

Hell naw!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

Very funny.. 👀😆🤣😂 👋🏾🇹🇹

lol that’s my cousin lisa she’s not a spy😹

She literally the granddaughter of the founder homie lol

Frfr 💯 I love White Castle and the movie lol 😂

I’ve never seen one. But krystal was invented in my town

@@spitonitpawpaw7049 lol hey thats not a bad thing it creates revenue and keeps the people goin

Same here. White Castle is everywhere in the Chgo suburbs so I thought it was a national chain.... until I moved to Springfield, IL and was shocked there is no White Castle.

It sure is a game isn't it

lol

@Sparka ok boomer

@Sparka Pompous much? Ha

FACTS!

Hasan Zuhairy why not franchise though or even expand you don’t necessarily need a franchisee to make more buildings I think it’s more ambition

Bryce Howard this is the reason why u need to watch it rather than seeing comments like this....

Thanks lol what a waste of time

I dunno. I already knew why, but I liked looking at the old-timey photos and learning the history.

also run by a woman

You ever been to white castle high? Its magical

@Kevin Prima Bet your bathroom experience the next morning was interesting to say the least.

Jealous

CHICAGO TOO

I ate them when I went to New Jersey have of my family lives there so we vist And got some lol

Yea mainly in the Bronx or soemthing

trisha d Boston Rd in the Bronx! I’m there at lest twice a week!

Sades Xenia I hear fast food jobs are usually horrible environment but good to hear you had a good experience.

Did they ever sale milk shakes

Worst Job ever, if you turned around and there was no customer or no food to prepare you got yelled at for not cleaning. Im not talking about siting around, no, as soon as you give the customer the bag and turned around if you didnt have a cleaning rag in had the and the manager saw...CURTAINS!!!!!

Exactly

If you call cooking frozen burgers fresh

Have any of you even had white castle? The quality of the food is dogshit. The burgers are soggy all the time and the food just has...an odor..... not saying it doesnt taste good but the quality is ass. Other restaurants like mcdonalds are sometimes worse though for sure.

@a. barker I cant comment my opinion but you can? Makes sense lol. I'm sorry you're butthurt over greasy food.

@@chriscolbert2188 That's kind of what White Castle is all about. Steamed burgers and buns with tons if onions. Food tastes great but the quality is what you can expect from a chain restaurant

Lmk ifit worthit lol

if u go.. update lol

Im from Columbus Ohio, there's one every few miles here and I never go.

@@Rdizzle512 nope oversalted overgreased.

Yuriy Didukh The grocery stores have their burgers here in North Carolina

Then there frozen ones and Krystal burgers

I visit a White Castle once every couple years to remind me that I can do without it.

Great food for producing clogged arteries! The taste I CAN live without!

@@coffeelink943 when i was in Florida there was a krystals,I’ll say its not bad like I thought it would be

I am thinking about a new type of restaurants: eating-spots in eating-spots, food keeps changing, chefs also rotate this is opposed to current restaurants, thanks to this rotation of food and chefs, eating-spots are more powerful than restaurants, along with that, there is an app, people vote for the food that will be cooked in the next days menu is influenced by the live input of the people via an app.

Man I was just thinking like where the LA locations at? They blowing it

or Ratburgers

Hahaha

facts!!

The one in Vegas sucks. The burgers taste like cardboard. However, when I was in Ohio visiting my bro i decided to stop by white castle again and they tasted soooooo good! Wish there was a white castle in California.

There was at least one in Malaysia way beck in the late 80s

wish they would come to California

It is actually extremely difficult to open branches overseas without a foreign partner that is based in that foreign country.

I was surprised to stumble across a White Castle In Shanghai.

My grandmother said those burgers was the only thing she could hold down due to stomach cancer.. She ALWAYS made us grab her 3.

Saint Loc lol, i missed WC until they just opened one in Scottsdale AZ

Yep all over Indiana and Illinois too. You guys have Culvers down there in Missouri?

Rice n Beans Yes, and it’s better then White Castle

Rice n Beans yeah we have Culver’s in MO

There's one in Wentzville.

I live in Memphis

Go Memphis grizzlies lol that’s all I know about Memphis I love in Moore Oklahoma

Man you can feel the depression in this comment.

Eldin Nukic 😂

They taste practically the same except the restraunt burgers have pickles

@D Lopez yeah that’s why I don’t buy them anymore, but it ends up as a last resort lunch or dinner if I do buy them

Hahaha.. damn right...thinking the same

The frozen burgers are not that bad they will curb the crave into you get to a white castles

Yeah, the buns lack the grease/steam combination that makes them oh so delicious

No pickle

Did you call them " gut busters" as well ha.. I grew up in Brooklyn Park mn

St Paul still has a few open..

Stillwater, MN location closed June 2021. Resturants close all the time. Generally, it does not bother me. But I miss this location because of the convenience of it and of course the service was top notch. As I would be parking an employee would notice and yell out, Joe's here, crack a couple eggs now. I miss that store. There is another store close to me, but I don't go often. It does help, I had a crush on the manager.

greg fuzi, closest i got was by steaming them which wasn't to bad, way better than oven or nuke methods, but yea when i go to nyc i try to stop by an get 2 dozen for the ride back upstate and those suckers are gone 3 blocks later. LOL

Same here... Moved to Sacramento and I've been eating frozen ones ever since... Don't taste too bad after you put pickle on them... JS ✌😘

Never tried a frozen one I have 3 franchises within 20 ,min here in New Jersey

greg fuzi ya if you get The store ones u have to steam them your self. dont microwave them.

It's exactly the same

I stopped eating beef 4 years ago but damn I miss me a good white castle cheese burger

You should try Culvers. Best fast food imo

Rice n beans good but not that good, Portillos has the best burger in Chicago and White Castle is unique 👌

Mine too lol, there isn't one in NC.

Culvers is infinitely better tho

Portillo's is better!

in n out is a superior product...if you don't agree, you're a crack baby...

In-N-Out Burger is crap. White Castle is king!

I live in california so im okay

The Metalhead it’s not popular in certain areas. I live in Texas and their stores are like ghost towns here. A lot of people would rather eat at Whataburger

@@Feliciatanktop that's true, I have tried and liked them all. Having said that, Krystal Burger is cheeseburger king!

Thank you.

Control freak....

John Titor and North Jersey

John Titor heck yeah there are! There’s one right down the block from my house

John Titor oh we’ve got all the chains here ahah, there’s even a tiny in-and-out I think

Shes a traitior

😂👍🏽

LOL!!

Lol. I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed that. She needs a new brow update.

I was looking for an eyebrow comment lol

The Castle of White

2 burgers of ham!

ok, cool...at least something is good there

AGREE ITS PRETTY GOOD BETTER THAN TYPICAL FOR THE OLD DAYS. NOW ITS OK BUT NOT THAT GREAT. BTW MOST MCD'S HAVE FANCYAZZ COFFEE NOWADAYS SO ITS MOOT.

Last time I was in Nashville, the location on Nolensville Rd @ Thompson Ln. was still open as is the location on Charlotte Ave. @ White Bridge Rd.

School is more about programming people to be able to sit inside doing meaningless work and taking orders for 8 to 10 hours a day while pushing the whole you have to go to College agenda. Creating paper pushers and blind pawns/ sheep. Do your own research on stuff youd be surprised the stuff you can learn just know that the information online can also be manipulated to fit an agenda.

Used to live up there it sucks cuz the closest one is in nanuet

BORN AND RAISED IN ORANGE COUNTY HEREE......I’ve never had White Castle in my life .....I’m 22

@@Fernbalt go try it its a nice lil drive

@@Fernbalt you don't want to tbh. its gross and over priced

In n out is better

@J S they make you poop.

Bad beef?

"Sliders" due to the patties being cooked on an angled griddle, and the patties slide down as they are cooked. Poop due to the grease, not the meat. Same results as most fast food.

@@richardm3023 grease or quality of oil? I'm wondering why its not being addressed... guessing it's related to money

@@indahpratiwi4308 can't complain about cheap fast food. you know what you're eating