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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 ...
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 ...
March 26, 1968. (1968-03-26) (aged 85) Orange County, California, U.S. Known for. Founder of the predecessor of what is now A&W Restaurants, proprietor of A&W Root Beer. Spouse. Luella Alice Allen. Roy W. Allen (September 30, 1882 – March 26, 1968) was an American entrepreneur who is best known for being a founder and namesake for A&W Root ...
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 ...
Root beer. 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 ...
October 24, 2024 at 4:02 PM. IMAGO / Pond5 Images. A new limited-edition flavor of A&W Root Beer just leaked, and fans are beyond ready to get their hands on a bottle (or two). About a week ago ...
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. In 1972, Unilever acquired A&W's Canadian operations, leading to the subsidiary's separation from ...
According to court documents, the $15 million settlement covers anyone in the United States who purchased one or more A&W Root Beer or Cream Soda products labeled as “Made With Aged Vanilla ...