White Castle officials, in a release, made sure to point out they were offering their customers “anything they crave on the White Castle menu, anytime their local White Castle is open,” and said they were making the move after “extensive testing and careful preparation.”
White Castle operates restaurants in Springfield, Trotwood, Middletown, Franklin, and South Lebanon. The Columbus-based fast-food chain also opened a $19.4 million, 80,000-square-foot frozen-food facility in Vandalia that produces more than 200,000 frozen Original Sliders, Cheeseburgers and Jalapeno Cheese Sliders for distribution to grocery stores across the nation as part of the company’s retail business.
“As a family-owned business, we believe in the power of the customer,” said Jamie Richardson, White Castle vice president. “Cravers” — a term that White Castle coined to describe its customers — have been “begging for our popular breakfast items at other times of the day so we have responded … ,” Richardson said.
Breakfast first appeared on the White Castle menu in 1986. Egg and Toast Sandwiches debuted in late 2011, and the Breakfast Belgian Waffle Sliders lineup appeared in 2014.
Privately held White Castle owns and operates more than 390 restaurants in 12 states. The Columbus-based company was founded in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921 and bills itself as America’s first fast-food hamburger chain.
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