They always seem to be standing by

Usage examples of operators.

For example, he suggested that operators begin their salesmanship immediately when the customer entered the building and then should be constantly alert to opportunities to sell additional products.

Instead, Ingram suggested to operators to "put on two and you will find he will invariably ask for the extra one.

He did the accounting, wrote correspondence for the partners, handled the miscellaneous administrative functions in the office, and worked the grills when the regular Castle operators were unavailable.

Anderson's trips across America and up into the wilds of Canada became a point of pride for many White Castle operators, that their leader embodied a rugged, if somewhat reckless, individualism.

Perhaps Anderson's rapport and popularity with the Castle operators can explain why his sudden departure was quietly downplayed in company circles.

From the outset, Ingram had established and enforced a strict company dress code for all Castle operators, insisting that all his operators wear crisp and clean white uniforms while on the job.

Referred to by Castle operators as simply "the cut-out booklet," they were designed as a marketing strategy to bond customers to White Castle.

But operators from all across the country reported that customers were lined up for blocks, even hours before the sale was set to begin, patiently waiting to get their discounted sacks of hamburgers.

This time, however, the company and its operators were prepared for the onslaught, and they handled it easily.

Since most of White Castle's clientele was male, Ingram did not permit women to be hired as operators, explaining that the male customers were apt to use inappropriate language and that employing women in that role would result in "too many problems.

As mentioned earlier, he also frequently directed Julia Joyce and local operators to give away hundreds of hamburgers, coffee, and pies to the poor at charity events.

Benfer quipped that he considered these former Castle operators to be "either in spirit or in fact, 'absent without leave'.

Since Castle operators traditionally were healthy young males, all were prime candidates for conscription into the service.

As early as two months before the start of the war, only one-tenth of all Castle operators had more than one year of service with the company.

With hundreds of former operators now in uniform, White Castle had to turn to younger workers and to other workers who might not have been hired in earlier times.