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Originally posted by Leemart

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Originally posted by Rearden

"Krystal……..White Castle………Neither one can hold a candle to the best mini-burger ever: Royal Castle! A pile of Royal Castle hamburgers and a birch beer served in a frosted mug…….it doesn’t get any better than that. I sure do miss the Royal Castles!"

Why? Aren’t they still in business? I can’t seem to find a website for them.

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Actually the Royal Castle legacy lives on in Miami FL, where the company started sometime around 1938. One of the early (1939) stores sufferred a fire in recent years, but is scheduled to reopen soon, while another has been operating successfully. This is all that is left of a chain that stretched across the southeastern US and to my mind, was superior to the White Castles or Krystals. Three burgers and a birch beer in a frosted mug for all of $.35 was my treat every Saturday before attending the kid’s movie program at the Rosetta Theater in Little River, a suburb of Miami.

Royal Castle reached way beyond the Southeast. Royal Castles were very big in the midwest — at least in Ohio, and that last two I know of in Ohio were right off Interstate 71 at Sunbury and at Lodi. The first Royal Castle I ever saw, and enjoyed, was on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami back in 1951 or 1952.