[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9115]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      WHITE CASTLE'S 90TH BIRTHDAY

  (Mrs. SCHMIDT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call attention to the 90th 
birthday of a restaurant. While it was started in Wichita, Kansas, in 
1921, this restaurant then came to Ohio, came to Cincinnati, and it's 
that little square hamburger, White Castle. And when you look at the 
Ingram family and what they've done across the Nation with their idea 
of an entrepreneurship of just a little square hamburger--they now have 
400 stores in 11 States. This is a family company, and it employs 
thousands of people.
  The craze that Mr. Ingram created in 1921 has grown in large part due 
to marketing, innovation, and adaptations of service. It has been 
reported that White Castle was the first fast-food restaurant to 
advertise in newspapers. It developed cardboard cartons for hamburgers, 
French fries, drinks, and even invented its own small type of 
semipermanent restaurant building. Mr. Speaker, ``White Castle'' was 
certainly a fitting name for this Ohio institution. Please join me not 
only in congratulating the Ingram family on the 90th birthday of White 
Castle but to remind ourselves of the importance of jobs and 
entrepreneurship in the United States.

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