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"   Is fast food just efficient enough for you these days? Think of those minutes wasted while sitting in your car at the drive-thru. The strain of leaning out your window to scream your order into a small box only to have it garbled back to you unintelligibly. The forgotten order of fries. Don&amp;#039;t worry, White Castle&amp;#039;s got your back. MSNBC reports that the home of the square burger has implemented an online ordering system. More from Delish: Make-Your-Own Fast Food For many, White Castle is simply a late night eatery for bleary-eyed college kids who wander in at 2am for a sack of greasy nourishment brought into the pubic eye by Harold and Kumar. But the 90-year-old chain is a burger pioneer, always at the forefront of burger technology. According to The Daily, Billy Ingram, White Castle&amp;#039;s founder, controlled his burger empire with militant efficiency. In an effort to get as many burgers as possible from a pound of beef he dreamt up square burgers. This innovation also meant that an optimal amount of patties could fit on a griddle with no space wasted. Later, in 1949, five holes were added to the burgers so that they would require less cooking time, thus making fast food faster. But they weren&amp;#039;t just at the frontlines of burger production ingenuity. White Castle&amp;#039;s website touts that the company was the first to run a fast food coupon campaign in 1932. In 1950 they began selling frozen hamburgers so that White Castle burgers could be enjoyed at any moment that the customer wanted. In 1970 the company began &amp;quot;Hamburgers to Fly,&amp;quot; which shipped hamburgers via air to those who were out of driving range of a White Castle (if only Harold and Kumar had known about that service). Now, White Castle can add online ordering to their roster of developments. More from Delish: Fast Food Restaurant Histories The new ordering system allows customers to choose an outpost in their area and then load up a virtual sack full of whatever their stomach is craving and however their stomach craves it as the site allows customized ordering. The company believes that this system will be particularly helpful for customers placing large orders. Once the order is placed, the customer will have to simply hop in the car or take to the sidewalks and go pick the order up. The service will be available in 400 locations in 11 states from New York to Missouri. More from Delish: Who Makes America&amp;#039;s Favorite French Fry? Of course, being able to order food online is nothing new. Sites like SeamlessWeb.com and GrubHub.com have been making that an option for years. Chains like Domino&amp;#039;s have also made their sites into virtual fast food counters. But White Castle&amp;#039;s entrance into the virtual realm marks the first of the big burger chains to do so. Will McDonald&amp;#039;s or Burger King feel the pressure to go virtual? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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