ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Fast-food slider chain White Castle plans to enter the Northeast Florida market with a proposed location in St. Augustine, according to our news partners at the Jacksonville Daily Record.
The 2,764-square-foot restaurant with a 270-square-foot outdoor seating area and dual drive-thru is slated for an outparcel in a Walmart Supercenter under construction at World Commerce Center off International Golf Parkway and Florida 16, just south of Tocoi Creek High School.
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The supercenter, at 3405 International Golf Parkway, is about 2 miles west of Bass Pro Shops, Buc-ee’s and Costco at World Commerce Center.
Columbus, Ohio-based archall architects is the White Castle architect. Gatlin Development Co., through IGP WCC Project LLC, is the property owner, according to the county property appraiser website. Steinemann & Co. is the developer.
A project cost will be assigned when the county issues a building permit. The county Development Review Committee will discuss the project May 6.
Florida has three White Castles, in Clermont, Kissimmee and Orlando, with a fourth scheduled to open this summer in Daytona Beach, according to a news release.
Founded in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, by Billy Ingram, White Castle owns and operates 341 restaurants, its website says. In addition, the company operates a retail division to sell branded food nationally in grocery stores, as well as meat-processing plants, bakeries and frozen-slider retail facilities.
Time magazine named White Castle’s Original Slider the most influential burger of all time in 2014.
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