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Root beer brand

A&W Root Beer

Type	Root Beer
Manufacturer	Keurig Dr Pepper (United States, Worldwide) A&W Canada, The Coca-Cola Company (Canada)
Country of origin	Usa
Introduced	1919; 103 years ago (1919)
Related products	Barq'south, Mug Root Beer, Dad's Root Beer, Hires Root Beer, A&W Foam Soda

**Nutrition facts**
Serving size 8.1 fl oz (1 cup / 240 ml)
Servings per container

Amount per serving
Calories 120		Calories from fat 0

% Daily value*
Full fatty 0 thousand			0%
Saturated fatty 0 g			0%
Trans fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg			0%
Sodium 30 mg			1%
Potassium 0 mg			0%
Total carbohydrate 31 g			10%
Dietary cobweb 0 one thousand			0%
Sugars 31 1000
Protein 0 grand

Vitamin A	0%	Vitamin C	0%
Calcium	0%	Atomic number 26	0%

*Percent daily values are based on a 2,000‑calorie diet. Your daily values may be college or lower depending on your calorie needs.

A&W Root Beer is an American make of root beer that was founded in 1919 past Roy Due west. Allen^[1] and primarily available in the The states and Canada. Allen partnered with Frank Wright in 1922, creating the A&Westward make and inspiring a chain of A&W Restaurants founded that year. Originally, A&W Root Beer sold for five cents (equivalent to $0.78 in 2021).^[two]

The rights to the A&W brand (except in Canada) are owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, which in plough licenses the make to the U.S.-based A&Westward Eating house chain. A&W Root Beer products are distributed via various U.S. bottlers. A&W Food Services of Canada, which is contained of both Keurig Dr Pepper and the U.S. restaurant chain, is responsible for the restaurants and marketing of root beer products in Canada,^[3] with retail products bottled and distributed by the Coca-Cola Company. The U.Southward. variant is also sold as an import drink in Southeast Asia and Italia (where A&W has restaurants), too as in Australia, Chile and other countries.

History [edit]

Roy W. Allen opened a roadside root beer stand in Lodi, California in 1919, using a formula that he had purchased from a chemist.^[4] He soon opened stands in Stockton, as well as five stands in nearby Sacramento - where "tray boys" pioneered drive-in curbside service. In 1920 Allen partnered with Frank Wright, birthing the A&W brand name.^[5]

Allen bought Wright out in 1924, obtained a trademark, and began selling restaurant franchises - creating ane of the first eatery chains in the The states. Franchise owners could use the A&W name and logo and purchased full-bodied root beer syrup from Allen. By 1933 in that location were more than than 170 A&Due west franchises. At that place was no mutual menu, compages, or set of procedures, and some chose to too sell food.^[4]

Franchises struggled with labor shortages and sugar rationing during Globe War II, but following the war GI loans helped, in part, the number of A&W outlets to triple. The proliferation of the auto and the mobility it offered resulted in more than 450 A&Due west Root Beer stands operating by 1950. That year Allen retired and sold the business to Nebraskan Cistron Hurtz, who formed the A&W Root Beer Company. The first A&Westward Root Beer outlet in Canada opened in 1956.

By 1960 the number of A&W restaurants swelled to more than 2,000.

In 1963 the company was sold to the J. Hungerford Smith Company, which had produced Allen's concentrate since 1921. That year the first overseas A&W restaurant opened its doors in Guam. In 1966 Hungerford was sold to the United Fruit Company, which merged with AMK Corporation in 1970 to form the United Brands Visitor.^[6]

In 1971 United Brands formed a wholly owned subsidiary, A&Westward Distributing Co., to retail its root beer. After examination runs in Arizona and California the products were distributed nationally, including sugar-free, depression-sodium, and caffeine-free versions. In 1974, A&West introduced "The Bully Root Comport," a mascot that served every bit a goodwill ambassador for the brand.

In the tardily 1970s A&Westward Restaurants was formed to manage eatery franchising. It was bought in 1982 by A. Alfred Taubman.

The bear and its associated jingle became the ground of a long-running Canadian advertisement campaign. The mascot was and then successful that it was somewhen adopted by the American A&W chain as well.

In 1986 A&W Foam Soda and A&W Nutrition Cream Soda were introduced and distributed nationally, followed in 1987 by the reformulation of A&W Saccharide-Complimentary every bit Diet A&W.

In October 1993 A&West Beverages was folded into Cadbury Beverages. It spun off its U.S. beverages business concern as Keurig Dr Pepper in 2008.

In July 2017 A&W Canada reformulated its root beer, dropping high fructose corn syrup and some flavors from the recipe, substituting cane sugar, sarsaparilla root, licorice, birch bark and anise.^{[ clarification needed ]} A&Westward Canada launched the new formula past declaring Free Root Beer Mean solar day, serving free root beer at all locations on July 22, 2017.^[seven]

In November 2020 Diet A&Due west was rebranded every bit A&W Zero Sugar.^[8]

Brands [edit]

A&West Sugar-Free was introduced in 1974^[i] and reformulated as Diet A&W in 1987.^[1] In 2020, information technology was rebranded with the proper name A&W Aught Saccharide.^[8]
A&West Cream Soda and A&Westward Diet Cream Soda were introduced in 1986.^[1]
A&W Floats and Sunkist Floats were introduced in 2008.
A&Westward X, a low-calorie root beer, began actualization in American supermarkets in the leap of 2013.

Promotions and contests [edit]

Through eBay, A&W and Jim Belushi offered a trip to Los Angeles with a VIP pass to the "A&Due west Ultimate All-American Cookout and Concert" at the House of Blues.^[ix]
In commemoration of its 100th anniversary, A&Westward offered a free two-liter bottle of its root beer in exchange for taking the Family unit Fun Pledge, which asked participants to be "technology-free for one hr every Friday nighttime this summer."^[10]

The Bang-up Root Bear [edit]

The Great Root Deport, also called Rooty, is the mascot for A&W Root Beer. Information technology was first used in 1974 by A&W Canada, and was adopted by the American chain in 1976.

In a long-running idiot box advertising campaign for the Canadian A&W concatenation, his theme was a tuba-driven jingle entitled "Ba-Dum, Ba-Dum". The jingle was released as a unmarried by Attic Records in Canada. It was credited to "Major Ursus", a play on the constellation name Ursa Major, which means "groovy acquit". The famous Canadian composer and B.C. Hall of Fame enshrinee Robert Buckley helped compose the song.

In the late 1990s, the Great Root Acquit'southward function as mascot was reduced for the restaurant chain, ultimately replaced past "The Burger Family", although it withal appeared in various capacities for the restaurants and on A&W Root Beer cases in Canada.^{[ citation needed ]}

In late 2011, the new ownership of A&Westward began using the mascot again, particularly in A&Due west's online presence.^[11]

A&W Restaurants [edit]

Shortly later Allen bought out Wright'southward portion of the business concern he began franchising the product. His profits came from a minor franchise fee and sales of concentrate. There was no standard food menu for franchises until 1978. By 1960 the company had 2,000 stores.

In 1989 A&W made an agreement with Minnesota-based chain Carousel Snack Bars to convert that chain'due south 200 locations (mostly kiosks in shopping malls) to "A&W Hot Dogs & More".^[12] ^[xiii] Some A&W Hot Dogs & More locations are in operation today.

Many A&W locations that opened in the U.S. during the Yum! Brands buying years (2002–2011) were co-branded with Yum!'due south other chains—Long John Silverish'due south, Taco Bong, Pizza Hut or KFC.

As of Dec 2011 A&Due west was under new ownership and its globe headquarters was moved back to Lexington, Kentucky. Since then, in the United States and Southeast Asia, A&West has been a franchisee-owned company.^[14] ^{[ clarification needed ]}

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-01-14. Retrieved 2007-12-22 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) – A&W root beer's official history
^ Our Brands – Keurig Dr Pepper
^ A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund. "About A&W Food Services of Canada Inc". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-02-23 .
^ ^a ^b Smith, Andrew F., Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food, Greenwood Press, 2006. pp. 44–45.
^ "The History of Root Beer".
^ "A&Due west's All-American Experience Endures 100 Years Later". QSR mag . Retrieved 2020-08-27 .
^ "A&Due west Canada is brewing root beer with natural ingredients". A&W Food Services of Canada. 5 July 2017. Retrieved v January 2019.
^ ^a ^b "A&W Root Beer Null Sugar (Nutrition) bachelor now. Buy today!".
^ eBay Bidders Can Vie for Trip to A&W Root Beer'due south 'Ultimate All-American Cookout and Concert' Featuring Jim Belushi and The Sacred Hearts Band; Proceeds From Online Charity Auction to Benefit John Belushi Scholarship Fund. – PR Newswire – HighBeam Research^{[ dead link ]}
^ "Pledge to go Technology-Costless and Create Family Fun with A&West Root Beer". www.prnewswire.com. June 4, 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-06-20.
^ Sloan, Scott. "A&Due west brings dorsum its official spokesbear, Rooty | Daily Business concern Report". Kentucky.com. Retrieved 2013-12-30 .
^ A&West Root Beer — History & Collectables Archived November 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ Carolyn Walkup (1991). "A&W prexy sets footstep for growth in the '90's". IndexArticles. Livonia, Michigan.
^ Franchise Opportunities Archived 2015-06-11 at the Wayback Automobile A & W Restaurants.

External links [edit]

A&Due west's root beer site
The History of Root Beer
Root Beer Reviews and info