Coffee Break

After an extended layoff, Coffee Break is back in business. Here’s today’s dose of business stories from across the land.

  • Bombardier is hiring 500 engineers in Montreal for three projects, including the Learjet 85.
  • Anyone wanna go to DineEquity for lunch? OK, it’s not the name of a restaurant; it’s the new corporate name for the company that owns IHOP and Overland Park-based Applebee’s. Let’s hope the food is better than the name.
  • Continuing with the restaurant theme, it’s always intrigued me, for some odd reason, that White Castle was founded in Wichita. In honor of its 87th year in business, White Castle rolled back prices to 27 cents for 87 minutes yesterday. When the first White Castle opened here in 1921, they cost a nickel. If you’re dying for a White Castle, it looks like the closest one is in the St. Louis area.

2 Comments

  1. Nick Jungman
    Posted May 28, 2008 at 2:37 pm | Permalink

    Used to be one in Tulsa. Gone now? And is the nearest Krystal closer?

  2. Dan Loving
    Posted May 28, 2008 at 2:52 pm | Permalink

    No White Castle in Tulsa. However, according to its Web site, it appears you can get them in some stores around here. Although I’m not sure why anyone would want to do that.

    Looks like the nearest Krystal is in Fayetteville.