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A&W Root Beer is an American brand of root beer that was founded in 1919 by Roy W. Allen [3] and primarily available in the United States and Canada. Allen partnered with Frank Wright in 1922, creating the A&W brand and inspiring a chain of A&W Restaurants founded that year. Originally, A&W Root Beer sold for five cents (equivalent to $0.88 in ...
- Root Beer
- 1919 - It All Started with A Roadside Stand…
- 1922 – So That’S What A&W Stands For
- 1925 – Adding to The Family
- 1950 – Here We Grow Again
- 1956 - Going International
- 1963 - Bacon, Meet Burger
- 1999 – That’S A Lot of Root Beer Floats
- 2017 & Beyond – The Future Is Now
Roy W. Allen opened his first Root Beer stand in Lodi, California on June 20th. It was a hot night that coincided with a city-wide party celebrating the homecoming of local World War I heroes.
Allen partnered with former Lodi employee Frank Wright. They leased their first two Root Beer stands to other operators so they could expand into the larger city of Sacramento. This was around the same time the partners coined the new name A&W®, “A” for Allen & “W” for Wright.
Allen began to sell franchises to others, thus establishing the first franchise restaurant chain in America.
Thanks to the postwar boom & prevalence of G.I. loans, there was a flurry of new development & nearly 450 operating A&Ws. Allen sold the entire operation to the A&W Root Beer Co., a California company.
A&W went international opening its first restaurant in Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1956. A&W restaurants in Canada were initially part of the American A&W restaurant chain until they were sold in 1972 and since then, have been owned and operated in Canada independently and separately from A&W operations in the United States.
A&W expanded to the Philippines, Malaysia, & Okinawa, Japan. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Original Bacon Cheeseburger was born.
In conjunction with A&W’s 80th Anniversary, the world’s largest Root Beer Float was created. 2,562.5 gallons of Root Beer was used to break the world record.
There are approximately 1,000 restaurants (& counting) in the United States & Southeast Asia. An estimated 46 new restaurant openings are planned for 2018 between the U.S. & International markets.
Feb 9, 2024 · In 1971, A&W Root Beer became available in bottles and cans and in 2003, the chain’s famous Cheese Curds were introduced. On June 20, 2019, A&W became the first franchise to turn 100 years old. While the chain has fewer U.S. locations than it did during its heyday in the 1960s, it remains a popular restaurant chain in America and is reportedly looking to expand again in the near future.
Mar 21, 2024 · The year was 1993, and the root beer brand had just been swallowed up by the British confectionery giant Cadbury Beverages, a move that would have far-reaching consequences for the future of A&W. Fast-forward to 2008, and Cadbury Beverages, in a bid to streamline its operations, spun off its U.S. beverages business into a new entity known as the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, taking A&W along for ...
6) A&W Root Beer is named for partners Roy Allen and Frank Wright. 7) A&W Root Beer (1919) is older than sliced bread (1928). 8) A&W was the first American quick-service restaurant to open in Malaysia (1963) and Singapore (1966). In 1963, it was the first American hamburger shop to open in Okinawa.
Jan 31, 2023 · A&W helped to make root beer popular, but the history of the beverage goes back further than 1919. According to Thought Co, the first introduction of root beer was in 1876, when a pharmacist named Charles Elmer Hires introduced a recipe combining 25 herbs, berries and roots, with a bit of carbonated water to top it off. This was loosely based ...
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Jun 19, 2019 · A&W’s famous root beer stands, which helped create the drive-in restaurant culture across America and introduced the first bacon cheeseburger, celebrates a century in business this month.
