White Castle

EST. 1921 · Columbus, Ohio

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US UNITS2952025 record · QSR Pro estimates
GLOBAL UNITS3502025 record · QSR Pro estimates
FRANCHISED %90%2025 record · QSR Pro estimates
FRANCHISE REQUIREMENTSView source notes ↓Primary-source review pending

01Our Coverage

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White Castle's Texas Gambit: Why the Slider Icon Is Finally Crossing the Red River

White Castle will open its first-ever Texas location at Grandscape in The Colony this summer, marking only the chain's seventh outpost outside the Midwest and a calculated bet on the nation's most competitive QSR battleground.

Mar 24, 2026

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02About the Brand

Slider burger chain and America's first fast-food hamburger chain

FIG 1 — US UNIT COUNT, 2019–2025

RECORD YEARS AND SOURCE LABELS BELOW

Records can refer to different reporting dates within a year. Estimates are identified in the source labels; these records are not a like-for-like growth calculation.

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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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