15 Unbelievable Photos of Fast Food Restaurants Then and Now

WHITE CASTLE THEN

Founded in Wichita, Kansas, back in 1921, White Castle sold its thin, onion-topped sliders for 5 cents and standardized the process enough to open locations quickly and inexpensively. Combined with prefabricated White Castle buildings and a squeaky clean reputation — important when the public isn’t all that happy about recent beef contamination — it was able to become the world’s first burger chain.