Good profile of Wichita, KS, Air Capital of the World
A deadly flight out of Wichita has one of America's most historic aviation cities reeling
https://apnews.com/article/plane-crash-wichita-kansas-a14e1e2acde7a058afa0b4fd3422313f
Good profile of Wichita, KS, Air Capital of the World
A deadly flight out of Wichita has one of America's most historic aviation cities reeling
https://apnews.com/article/plane-crash-wichita-kansas-a14e1e2acde7a058afa0b4fd3422313f
Since the closest one is a hour away. Made some Whitecastle sliders at home.
#whitecastle #sliders #hamburger #food
Another #book on my reading wishlist.
White Burgers, Black Cash
Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
By: Naa Oyo A. Kwate
The long and pernicious relationship between #FastFoodRestaurants and the #AfricanAmerican community.
Today, #FastFood is disproportionately located in #BlackNeighborhoods and marketed to #BlackAmericans through targeted #advertising. But throughout much of the 20th century, fast food was developed specifically for White urban and suburban customers, purposefully avoiding Black spaces. In White Burgers, Black Cash, Naa Oyo A. Kwate traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long #history of #RacistExclusion to its current damaging embrace of urban #BlackCommunities.
Fast food has historically been tied to the country’s self-image as the #LandOfOpportunity and is marketed as one of life’s simple pleasures, but a more insidious history lies at the industry’s core. White Burgers, Black Cash investigates the complex trajectory of restaurant locations from a decided commitment to #Whiteness to the #disproportionate densities that characterize Black communities today. Kwate expansively charts fast food’s racial and spatial transformation and centers the cities of #Chicago, #NewYork City, and #WashingtonDC, in a national examination of the biggest brands of today, including #WhiteCastle, #KFC, #BurgerKing, #McDonalds, and more.
260 McNuggets? McDonald’s Ends A.I. Drive-Through Tests Amid Errors - Ordering mistakes frustrated customers during nearly three years of tests. But competitor... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/business/mcdonalds-ai-drive-thru-white-castle.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #wendysinternationalinc #mcdonaldscorporation #tiktok(bytedance) #fastfoodindustry #socialmedia #restaurants #whitecastle #googleinc
Shot: image of a #WhiteCastle drive-thru and #LinkedIn commentary
Chaser: voice memo as a podcast clip https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/superversive/id1714699108?i=1000655200696
Opening day is set for January 30.
This is the second time White Castle has closed a store, then opened a new one in the same neighborhood a few years later. The other was in Coney Island, where a full restaurant replaced a takeout only window.