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As of year-end 2023, A&W has 455 franchised restaurants in the US market alone. The number of co-branded locations has been on the decline with 243 such units. [98] As of January 2025, A&W has made it to the Franchise 500 list for six consecutive years. [102]
Food stand opens in graffiti-era Modesto. Modesto became home to an A&W food stand on G and 14th streets in 1957. In 1963, the chain became the first-ever to serve a bacon cheeseburger.Dale Mulder ...
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 ...
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.
A&W is a fast-food restaurant chain in Canada, franchised by A&W Food Services of Canada, Inc. [5] The company was initially a subsidiary of the U.S.-based A&W Restaurants chain, with the subsidiary opening its first franchise in Winnipeg in 1956.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
The Austin location was the third location in the chain's history. Opened in 1975, and built in 1902, it used to be a grocery warehouse, and during prohibition, was a brothel. Two chandeliers from New York City's Penn Station resided there as well as the original box office from Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
In 1924, Don Carlos Edwards established a small refreshment stand at a Pioneer Day celebration. By 1941 it had grown into a thriving BBQ restaurant. [4] Edwards subsequently opened the first Arctic Circle restaurant in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1950.