It All Started with A Roadside Stand: The 'Roots' of A&W Restaurants

Take a trip down memory lane with this timeline of key moments in A&W Restaurants history. Who knows, you might even learn a thing or two.  1919 - IT ALL STARTED WITH A ROADSIDE STAND… Roy W. Allen opened his first Root Beer stand in Lodi, California on June 20th. It was a hot night that coincided with a city-wide party celebrating the homecoming of local World War I heroes.

It All Started with A Roadside Stand: The 'Roots' of A&W

The 'root' of A&W: Their first root beer stand opened 104 years

A&W All-American Food

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The Humble Origins Of A&W Root Beer

A&W All-American Food

The Rejuvenating Representation of Root Beer Stands — Ronny Salerno

A&W Root Beer began in 1919, at a parade honoring returning World War I veterans in Lodi, California. Roy Allen set up a roadside drink stand to offer

A&W Glass Bottled Root Beer

A&W All-American Food