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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 ...
Then came the name — A&W. The pair leased their first two walk-up root beer stands to other operators so they could expand to Sacramento, according to the company’s website. The first A&W ...
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.
Root beer is a sweet North American soft drink traditionally made using the root bark of the sassafras tree Sassafras albidum or the vine of Smilax ornata (known as sarsaparilla; also used to make a soft drink called sarsaparilla) as the primary flavor. Root beer is typically, but not exclusively, non-alcoholic, caffeine-free, sweet, and ...
The Partnership licenses the trademarks to A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. in exchange for a royalty of 3% of the sales of A&W restaurants in Canada. A&W Food Services owns ~21% of A&W Trade Marks Inc. which is the sole general partner in the Partnership, while the rest is owned by A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund. [35]
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
An 1894 American Trade Card for Hires Root Beer A Hires Root Beer mug from the 1930s or earlier. Hires Root Beer was created by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires. The official story is that Hires first tasted root beer, a traditional American beverage dating back to the colonial era, while on his honeymoon in 1875. [2]