A&W restaurant opened for business a while ago. It started with just selling root beer in 1919 in
Lodi, California by a man named Roy Allen.
Roy invented the A&W root beer and started to sell his root beer and opened a business. He sold the root beer for a couple of years starting in 1920.
The restaurant went nation-wide in 1922 spreading east from California. The restaurant opened more outlets in Houston, Texas.
After success in selling his beverage from a root beer stand in Lodi and Sacramento, he teamed up with one of his original employees, Frank Wright, to officially market their A&W Root Beer in
1924
A&W then started selling hamburgers and hotdogs along with their famous root beer in a couple of years.
In the years of 1925-1926, Allen moved to Salt Lake City, Utah and restarted his business. By selling A&W franchises throughout the United States, Allen created the very first restaurant chain in America.
During The Great Depression and World War II in 1929, A&W Root Beer Drive-Ins either thrived or closed down because of
In general, however, the franchise drive-ins continued to increase in number throughout the 1930s.
By 1970 there were over 2,000 A&W drive-thru restaurants spread across the nation.
A&W Restaurants is in the business of licensing franchises not only in the United States but around the world, and A&W Food Services of Canada is managed by a group of businessmen who are building a beverage and restaurant empire across North America.
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