A&W Restaurants Company Description
The old fashioned root beer stand lives on thanks to this business. A subsidiary of fast-food giant YUM! Brands, A&W Restaurants operates and franchises about 625 quick-service restaurants in the US and 10 other countries offering hamburgers, hot dogs, onion rings, and fries, along with its signature root beer. In addition to its traditional drive-up format, the chain includes food court locations and restaurants co-branded with sister chains KFC and Taco Bell. A handful of locations are corporate-owned. A&W traces its roots back to a California root beer stand business started by Roy Allen in 1919.
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