A & W

Pros: The root beer is great (and they have diet!).
Cons: Everything else is par for the course.

When all is said and done, A & W restaurants offer up your typical fast food burger fare. So don’t get overly excited as you start to read here. With that said, however, why is it that I just can’t resist stopping in whenever I happen to ...

Pros: Long time favorite root beer.
Cons: The root beer is now a failed product.

In New York there just aren't a whole lot of A&W outlets around. The few, and I mean very few, are hooked up with KFC on Long Island. It's a good idea because KFC is possibly too specialized and A&W doesn't do anything special. Quite frankly the only ...

Pros: Root Beer
Cons: Limited menu; Not the same as in the past

A&W is a restaurant chain that is best known for its world- famous root beer and the innovation of the "root beer stand". This chain was founded in 1919 when Roy Allen started to sell root beer from his root beer stand for 5 cents per glass. Allen didn't...

Pros: Good food
Cons: Annoying menu, locations

I can’t help but lust for mamas, and occasionally papas. However, I find the teens to be the juiciest, meatiest, and most sensuous of them all. Occasionally I’ll even go for the double teens. However, although grandpa has things working in his ...

Pros: Cheap, Lots of locations
Cons: Awful food, dirty locations

I like to eat, and when I go to a inexpensive fast food restaurant, I don't expect to be completely impressed. Fast food chains serve an important niche in our society, as we are always "on the go" with no time to spare. They are wonderful for a quick ...

Pros: very tasty root beer, great onion rings, edible hamburgers
Cons: disgusting chili dogs, getting expensive to eat there, slow staff at many locations

A & W is one of those little establishments that have been around for years, but I fear that the years may be catching up with the A & W franchise. A & W itself is a fast food chain spread around the United States that has for years specialized in ...

Pros: it tastes like food!
Cons: food is less filling than a grease-soaked spongy substance.

Oh, we were hungry.

We had been sitting in the car for over two hours, driving to some place we were totally unfamiliar with from... some other place we were totally unfamiliar with. And according to our information, we should have been there...

Pros: Nostalgia, good food, fun
Cons: EXPENSIVE, walk through stand, bad employees

Back in the day, of early 1980's, there were no AppleBees or Outback Steakhouses. We had McDonald's, Burger King and A & W ROOTBEER!! I loved going there as a child, and as a teenager, and then as construction went under way near the last standing ...

Pros: the best root beer in the world
Cons: the food is nothing special, but who cares?

I am sipping sweet perfection, pausing to reflect respectfully at the creaminess, the body, the texture, the carbonation, which seems somehow less intrusive than bubbles in any other such beverage.

I am 19-years-old, watching wistfully from...

Pros: thanks for the memories
Cons: greasy food, chemical tang to root beer, morose service

Millions of years ago, when I was a wee lass, my grandfather lived across the street from an A&W drive-in. Of all my childhood memories, one of the most vivid still dances on my tongue: an A&W teen burger, with onion rings and root beer. From the...

Pros: Great food, great service, great price, and a brilliant return to its roots...
Cons: None that I can think of...

Recently, A&W has been making a return to its roots, by introducing themes and menu items that used to be featured during the chain's original years of operation.

I've always enjoyed A&W over other all other fast food restaurants including...

Pros: Great Root Beer & Artery Hardening Chili Dogs
Cons: Not Enough Restaurants To Go Around

One of the fondest memories I have of my childhood is going to A&W. I can remember my mother loading me, my brother and sisters into her old beat-up Buick and going for a Sunday drive, always ending up at A&W. We’d pull in and the lady...

Pros: root beer, variety, and root beer
Cons: not close enough

Back in the mid-to-late 60’s, whenever my parents and I went to Atlanta, we made it a point to go to A&W. I guess the food was okay, but the root beer…

I remember the frosty mug, the root beer freezing to the mug and breaking off...

Pros: Rootbeer, chili dog
Cons: High prices, cleanliness

My last visit to an A&W was in our local mall. It was a crowded food court, jammed with strollers and teenagers, all attempting to get lunch in a hurry. A&W had a corner of the food court, sandwiched between The Great Steak & Potato Company and...

Pros: good food, fair price
Cons: none

If you have never been to an A&W Restaurant, you don't know what you are missing. My parents took us to A&W as kids, and I still take mine there today.

The kids and I love the bacon cheeseburgers, coney dogs, chicken strips, french...