Overview
American regional fast food hamburger chain founded in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, credited as the world's first fast food hamburger chain. Known for its small square sliders sold at low prices. Privately held and family-owned (Ingram family), headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with ~345 locations across 13 states.
In 2020, White Castle began deploying Miso Robotics' Flippy automated cooking robot in Chicago-area stores, expanding to the Flippy 2 model in November 2021 — by end of 2022, a third of locations were expected to be equipped with the device.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Founded
Scale
Stage
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company White Castle has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Impossible Foods1× joint
- 2Microsoft1× joint351 total
- 3Miso Robotics1× joint1 total
Most recent
- White Castle x Miso Robotics (Flippy)2020-09-01with Miso Roboticsoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Lisa Ingram President & CEOsecondary-verified
Former / Previously (2)
- Edgar Waldo 'Billy' Ingram Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Walter A. Anderson Co-foundersecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for White Castle.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
White Castle in third-party press
White Castle Unveils ‘Restaurant in a Box’ Serving Sliders in Minutes - Complex
Serve Robotics (SERV) Partners With White Castle for Autonomous Delivery on Uber Eats - Yahoo Finance
Serve Robotics partners with White Castle for autonomous delivery on Uber Eats - Verdict Food Service
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
3 total · 3 operating · 1 ended
Every company White Castle has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- White Castle x Miso Robotics (Flippy)2020-09-01with Miso Roboticsoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Impossible Foods1× joint
- 2Microsoft1× joint351 total
- 3Miso Robotics1× joint1 total
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology—operating
- deployment2020-09-01operating
- White Castle x Impossible FoodswithImpossible Foodsdistribution—concludedoperating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 11, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-02
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-02
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for White Castle.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning White Castle from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
White Castle Unveils ‘Restaurant in a Box’ Serving Sliders in Minutes - Complex
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Serve Robotics (SERV) Partners With White Castle for Autonomous Delivery on Uber Eats - Yahoo Finance
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Serve Robotics partners with White Castle for autonomous delivery on Uber Eats - Verdict Food Service
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White Castle, Serve Robotics team up with automated delivery technology - MEAT+POULTRY
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White Castle expands robotic delivery partnership with Uber Eats - Chain Store Age
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Serve Robotics Teams Up With White Castle: Can Robot Delivery Scale? - Zacks Investment Research
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Serve Robotics stock jumps on White Castle delivery deal By Investing.com - Investing.com Nigeria
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White Castle partners with Serve Robotics to deliver through Uber Eats - QSR Web
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Serve Robotics and White Castle Launch Autonomous Delivery via Uber Eats - GlobeNewswire
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Serve Robotics adds White Castle to its list of delivery partnerships (SERV:NASDAQ) - Seeking Alpha
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Serve Robotics CEO talks Q4 earnings, White Castle partnership - Yahoo Finance
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Miso Launches the Newest Flippy: The Fry Station Robot Built From Millions of Baskets of Real-World Data - QSR Web
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/white-castle.md
- RSS feed: /companies/white-castle/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/6a58d31b-efcc-4adf-a7f1-1edfec90460c
- Revision history: /companies/white-castle/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place White Castle against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 7, 2026