White Castle
The first White Castle restaurant cost $700 to open in 1921. Each of Billy Ingram’s famous burgers cost 5 cents and by the year 1941, the restaurant had sold over 50,000,000 of the burgers. Only in 1950 did the burgers cost over 10 cents each. Occasionally, White Castle would run promotional ads in the 1940s that would include coupons in local newspapers offering five burgers for ten cents, takeout only.
White Castle
In-N-Out Burger
Rather than having door-to-door style service, Harry and Esther Synder created this now-iconic restaurant. They decided using a drive-thru speaker was smarter and much more efficient. This was the first-ever drive-thru in California. In-N-Out has locations mainly in the Southwest and Pacific coast in the United States. The franchise was founded in 1948 in California, and today, it has expanded further out, to the rest of California as well as into Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and Oregon. Currently, the chain is owned by Lynsi Snyder, the Snyders’ only grandchild.
In-N-Out Burger
