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The White Castle System of Eating Houses

99% Invisible

CHAPTER

The Expansion and Imitation of White Castle

This chapter discusses the expansion of the White Castle Burger Empire in the 1920s and 30s, the problem of copycat operations imitating White Castle, and the emergence of McDonald's as an imitator that eventually replaced White Castle.

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