A&W Restaurants

A & W is the oldest US-based franchise chain in the catering business. The company was founded in 1922. The name A & W stands for the initials of the founder Roy Allen and Frank Wright. The offer of the chain consists mainly of hamburgers and hot dogs.

Importance

A & W has 485 stores in the United States and 209 in other countries such as Australia, Japan and Southeast Asia. Not included is Canada, where the A & W restaurants were sold to Unilever in 1972; the local chain has no relationship to the rest.

From 2002 to 2011 A & W Restaurants was one of Yum! Brands, a group founded in 1997 with headquarters in Louisville (Kentucky), which also owns the restaurant chains KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

The more high-priced A & W Root Beer is sold in retail since 1971 and is considered one of the most popular products on the U.S. market. A & W referred to it as " alcohol-free, caffeine -free soft drink with herbal taste." The Cream Soda A & W Root Beer is next to another drink of the brand. It has a vanilla flavor and contains, unlike most of the Cream Soda products of other manufacturers, caffeine.

After the three A & W Restaurants in Berlin, Garbsen and Cologne were closed, A & W is no longer represented in Germany.