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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 ...
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Jan 25, 2023 · A&W Root Beer is actually one of over 125 brands owned by Keurig Dr. Pepper. Other drink brands owned by that parent company include Canada Dry, 7Up, Crush, Snapple, RC, and Yoo-hoo. Keurig Dr ...
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- 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.
A&W serves more than 197 million customers annually. A&W Root Beer is Canada's #1 root beer. A&W is recognized as a Platinum member in Canada's Best Managed Companies program. In 2013, A&W launched new beef which is raised without the use of hormones or steroids. In October 2014, A&W began using chicken raised without the use of antibiotics and ...
A&W Canada. In 1956, the first A&W drive-in restaurant in Canada opened on Portage Avenue in Winnipeg. Serving a delicious combination of great-tasting burgers, onion rings and frosted mugs of famous A&W Root Beer®—all from the smiling faces of friendly car hops—A&W proved to be an instant hit. A&W Restaurants quickly multiplied across the ...
A&W Restaurants, Inc. (also known as Allen & Wright Restaurants) is an American fast food restaurant chain distinguished by its "Burger Family" combos, draft root beer and root beer floats. [5][6] The oldest extant restaurant chain in the United States [7] (the oldest being the Harvey House), [8] A&W's origins date back to 1919 when Roy W ...
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A&W Root Beer® is made with natural cane sugar and all-natural flavours. So it’s a more natural way to treat yourself. Harvested from the sugarcane plant and identified by its caramel colour, natural cane sugar provides a fruity sweetness and floral aroma. Light, yet complex, birch bark brings a subtle earthiness to the smooth, delicious ...
