What we’re really supplying with our supply chain
We’re better than a better-burger franchise. We’ve got the supply-side muscle to prove it. A&W Restaurants franchise is somewhere in the in-between. And by in-between, in this instance, we mean in between fast-food chains and better-burger franchises. We mean in...
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The Magic of the Drive-Thru
Here’s how we pulled 2020 out of the fire and outperformed everyone else in the burger franchise category Eight consecutive months of double-digit year-over-year sales growth would be an accomplishment in any year. But when that year was 2020, and every other burger...
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Now Open: New Units Help Drive Double-Digit Sales Growth
Getting a new restaurant built and opened is tough enough in regular times, let alone during a pandemic. But COVID-19 did not stop Betty Adrian and Mike Adrian from finishing a stunning new A&W this month in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. Welcome to the family!...
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A&W Restaurants’ CEO Discusses COVID-19 Success on CNBC
A&W CEO Kevin Bazner explained to viewers of CNBC’s Worldwide Exchange how America’s first franchised chain restaurant has outperformed other quick-service brands after a “scary” March and April. According to Bazner, A&W Restaurants’ year-to-date sales growth...
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Franchisee Profile: From Corner Booth to Boardroom Seat
By Dave Crowley, Director of Franchise Recruitment Growing up in small-town Yale, Michigan in the 1990s, Mike Vinckier personally knew the owners of the local A&W restaurant, which still serves the best burgers in town. “I have so many memories of going after...
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A&W Wins Summer Burger Wars with Three Months of Double-Digit Sales Growth
Perhaps it was Americans’ taste for familiar comfort foods and summer treats, like A&W Root Beer Floats. Or maybe it was our franchisees’ ability to quickly adapt to customers’ changing needs. Whatever the reason, new data shows A&W’s comparable sales, which...
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