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.

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