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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.
- Kathryn Underwood
The rights to the A&W brand (except in Canada) are owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, which in turn licenses the brand to the U.S.-based A&W Restaurant chain. A&W Root Beer products are distributed via various U.S. bottlers.
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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.
- 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.
The A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund is a limited purpose trust established to invest in A&W Trade Marks Inc. (Trade Marks), which indirectly owns the A&W trademarks used in the A&W quick service restaurant business in Canada.
A&W Root Beer is not owned by a single entity, but it operates independently as a franchise system. This means that different owners, commonly referred to as franchisees, operate individual A&W restaurants across various locations.
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Under Bazner’s leadership, A&W moved away from the co-brand strategy, and today is building single-brand restaurants. Unlike most quick-service chains, it has shied away from discounting, instead focusing on quality. A&W resumed making its signature Root Beer fresh in each restaurant.
