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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. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] A&W's origins date back to 1919 when Roy W. Allen set up a roadside drink stand to offer a new thick and creamy drink, root beer, at a parade ...
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 ...
A&W Restaurants — possibly the best thing since before sliced bread.. On June 20, 1919 (sliced bread was invented in 1928), founder Roy Allen served the first mug of A&W root beer at his walk-up ...
The drink gained the name "A&W Root Beer" in 1922 when an employee of Allen's stand in Stockton, [7] Frank Wright, joined Allen in a partnership. The following year, A&W opened its first drive-in restaurant, located in Sacramento. [2] Though Frank Wright was bought out another year later, the chain of root beer stands retained the same name.
The walk-up eatery – which serves hot dogs and coney dogs, burgers, ice cream and, of course, root beer floats – offers covered outdoor seating. It is typically open each year from spring to fall.
A&W may refer to: A&W Restaurants, an American fast food chain A&W (Canada), a fast food chain originally a part of A&W Restaurants, later sold and operated as a separate company; A&W Root Beer "A&W" (song), a song by American singer Lana Del Rey
HARWICH PORT — Bagel Hound plans to breathe new life into a shuttered site and open a new location in the iconic former A&W Root Beer on Route 28. Claire Adams, who runs Bagel Hound with her ...
In 1971 United Brands formed a wholly owned subsidiary, A&W Distributing Co., to retail A&W Root Beer. After the suicide of Black in 1975, the company was acquired by Seymour Milstein and Paul Milstein. In 1980, Chiquita was an official sponsor of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. [6]