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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