{"id":2929,"date":"2026-04-25T15:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:14:16","slug":"white-castle-is-rolling-out-hot-slider-vending-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=2929","title":{"rendered":"White Castle Is Rolling Out Hot Slider Vending Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<div class=\"css-hl6xtf e1wzc3k51\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.delish.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/clock-regular.4ddebeb.svg\" alt=\"Estimated read time\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span class=\"css-1rzbsk9 e1wzc3k50\">2 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1jx1kps etlajd3\">\n<div data-theme-key=\"collapsible-section\" class=\"css-p1fz9n e1q3dcg6\">\n<h3 data-theme-key=\"collapsible-header\" class=\"css-1fv4nwp e1q3dcg5\"><button aria-label=\"Hide Key Points section\" aria-expanded=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-header-button\" class=\"css-ec8vqf e1q3dcg4\"><\/p>\n<div data-theme-key=\"collapsible-icon-wrapper\" data-collapsible-open=\"true\" class=\"css-lhm19 e1q3dcg0\"><span data-testid=\"iconRight\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-icon-right\" class=\"css-1ep4808 e1q3dcg1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.delish.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/caret-right-regular.a6ec664.svg\" alt=\"Caret Right\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/h3>\n<div aria-hidden=\"false\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-section-text\" class=\"css-nzvxqj e1q3dcg3\">\n<div class=\"css-ex91la etlajd2\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>White Castle is partnering with Automated Retail Technologies to roll out Crave &amp; Go hot-food kiosks.<\/li>\n<li>The company says the vending-style machines will start with 1,000 locations in places like campuses, hospitals, and workplaces.<\/li>\n<li>White Castle expects the kiosk expansion to continue throughout 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Can you imagine walking up to a vending machine, pressing a few buttons, and having a hot White Castle Slider come shooting out at you? That is the kind of thing dreams are made of, as Hilary Duff once taught us. Only now, in 2026, is that dream apparently becoming a real thing.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">White Castle is expanding beyond its restaurants and freezer-aisle sliders with a new vending-style setup called Crave &amp; Go. The fast-food chain has teamed up with Automated Retail Technologies, LLC to roll out hot-food kiosks that will dispense White Castle favorites on demand in places where a full restaurant may not exist.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">The plan starts with 1,000 locations, with kiosks expected to pop up in places like college campuses, hospitals, workplaces, and transportation hubs, giving people a shot at hot sliders in the kind of places where you usually have to settle for a sad granola bar or a vending-machine bag of pretzels.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-22\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260421612297\/en\/White-Castle-Partners-with-Automated-Retail-Technologies-to-Bring-Iconic-Sliders-to-Automated-Kiosks-Nationwide\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260421612297\/en\/White-Castle-Partners-with-Automated-Retail-Technologies-to-Bring-Iconic-Sliders-to-Automated-Kiosks-Nationwide\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"According to\" data-node-id=\"4.0\" class=\"body-link css-8bav6j emevuu60\">According to<\/a> White Castle chief marketing officer Jamie Richardson, the whole point is to give people another way to get the chain\u2019s food right when the \u201ccravings strike,\u201d and it\u2019s hard to argue with the logic. If your options are \u201cmystery sandwich sitting under a heat lamp\u201d or \u201cfreshly dispensed White Castle slider,\u201d the winner feels pretty obvious.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"body-image\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-23\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"embed\">\n<div size=\"large\" data-embed=\"body-image\" class=\"align-center size-large embed css-13f5bxj e1fodxfw4\">\n<div class=\"css-1k29q50 e1fodxfw3\"><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"Vending machine offering White Castle food items.\" title=\"Vending machine offering White Castle food items.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3716\" height=\"5334\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/9bbfe3d2-62db-4add-9cc4-5adee00459cc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=768:* 640w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/9bbfe3d2-62db-4add-9cc4-5adee00459cc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=768:* 980w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/9bbfe3d2-62db-4add-9cc4-5adee00459cc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1120w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/9bbfe3d2-62db-4add-9cc4-5adee00459cc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1400w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/9bbfe3d2-62db-4add-9cc4-5adee00459cc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1800w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/9bbfe3d2-62db-4add-9cc4-5adee00459cc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 2000w\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/9bbfe3d2-62db-4add-9cc4-5adee00459cc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:*\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><figcaption data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-figcaption\" class=\"css-1am3yn9 e1g9hcy40\"><span data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-creditor\" class=\"css-l4pefh e1geg53v2\">White Castle<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">The kiosks are being powered through ART\u2019s Just Baked platform, which is already used in busy public spaces, and White Castle says the machines will make the food to order. The two companies also plan to use the partnership to test future menu items built specifically for these automated setups, which means this may be only the beginning of the robot-slider era.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Deployment has already started, and the companies say the early response has been strong with more locations expected to come online throughout 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">The future may be confusing and terrifying in a lot of ways, but if it also includes hot White Castle sliders coming out of a machine when you need them most, I\u2019m willing to hear it out.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-24\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-u95ltk e94w1mj3\"\/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 min read White Castle is partnering with Automated Retail Technologies to roll out Crave &amp; Go hot-food kiosks. The company says the vending-style machines will start with 1,000 locations in places like campuses, hospitals, and workplaces. White Castle expects the kiosk expansion to continue throughout 2026. Can you imagine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}