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Article: QUEEN OF THE WHITE CASTLES // For 36 years, Julia Mueller has reigned at the grill
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 2, 1989
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Her name tag reads "Julia, 36 years."
Julia Mueller proudly holds the distinction of grilling White
Castle hamburgers longer than anyone else at the Chicago area's 34
White Castle restaurants. She is the queen.
"I had never heard of White Castle and I had certainly never
eaten one of their little hamburgers," Mueller recalls of her
pre-Castle days. "Being from a German household, we cooked at home."
When Mueller emigrated to the United States in 1952, she spoke
no English. Older brother Wolfgang suggested she get a job at White
Castle, the best place to learn English and to meet a wide variety of
Americans. Wolfgang was right.
But Mueller was also drawn by the "White Castle code," ...