Most were rebranded, while a few independent Burger Chefs held on for a while. The last one, in Cookeville, Tennessee, closed in 1996. We won’t say that White Tower was a complete ripoff of ...

Fast food as we know it was born in 1921, with the opening of the first White Castle. Customers got the exact same product, every time, at a rapid pace -- huge innovations in the 1920s culinary ...