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White Castles new Crave and Go location opens Oct. 26

White Castles new Crave and Go location opens Oct. 26

10.12.22 | Austin Fuller

White Castle’s new pickup and delivery-only restaurant near its Orlando store has an opening date of Oct. 26, and the chain is looking to build more restaurants in Florida.

The Ohio-based company is “having some fun” searching for new sites for traditional restaurants in the state but will be patient, said White Castle vice president Jamie Richardson. “We’re continuing to look in Florida and we’ll see where it leads,” Richardson said.

Meanwhile, the new 1,800-square-foot store just yards from the White Castle near Walt Disney World will fill orders from customers placed on whitecastle .com and through the White Castle app, as well as deliveries by DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub.

It is being marketed as White Castle’s first “Crave & Go.”

The restaurant revealed plans in April for the new location within Unicorp National Developments’ O-Town West project at Palm and Daryl Carter Parkways.

Customers who still want to order in-person for dine-in or in the drive-through will need to go to the full 4,567-square-foot restaurant, which rewrote the company’s record books by selling five million sliders in its first year.

“It really hasn’t slowed down,” Richardson said.

The new restaurant will also feature a “Flippy 2” robot arm that uses cameras and artificial intelligence to take French fries, chicken rings and cheese sticks out of a freezer and put them in the fryer.

Richardson said the robot will free up White Castle staffers from working the fryer so they can do other tasks.

“It isn’t replacing people, but it is making the job easier,” Richardson said.

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