The World's First Fast Food Restaurant in the 21st Century in the United States

White Castle

There are many fast food restaurants in the world that are mushrooming and easy to find in the 21st century. Long before fast food restaurants became popular, there was only one fast food restaurant location in the world called White Castle in the United States.

White Castle is the world's first fast food restaurant which opened in 1921 founded by Bill Ingram in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Quoting USA Today, the White Castle restaurant was made with a design inspired by the Water Tower building in Chicago.

The Delighted Cooking page wrote, White Castle only served hamburgers as a main dish when it first opened.

The first White Castle fast food restaurant, has its own characteristics

As the world's first fast food restaurant, White Castle is easily recognizable due to several features that set it apart from other restaurants. One of them is the selection of the type of minimalist kitchen.

In contrast to most restaurants at that time, which placed the kitchen away from the customer's view, White Castle actually made an open kitchen model. Through the open kitchen, White Castle customers can see clearly how the process of making their ordered hamburger.

In addition to direct viewing, White Castle customers can also place orders and pick them up independently without the help of restaurant staff. Not only has succeeded in writing history as the world's first restaurant, White Castle is also said to be able to change the public's view of their mainstay food, namely hamburgers. In the early 1900s, hamburgers were considered an unhealthy and unimportant food by many.

At first at that time many people believed that hamburgers were often made from used meat of very low quality. The image of the hamburger is slowly being considered to have changed since the existence of White Castle.

Hambuger from White Castle As the mainstay of the menu at that time, the hamburger belonging to White Castle was actually made with standard quality meat, not low quality meat that was not worth it.

The White Castle hamburger later came to be recognized by the media and critics as a "superb sandwich of great taste" because of its delicious taste and incongruity with earlier views.

After White Castle, various fast food restaurants began to appear with more complete and modern services. One example is the presence of a drive thru service provided by the first franchise restaurant in California, namely In-N-Out Burger in 1948.

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