Canadians are probably smart enough to know that a 1/3 pound burger is BIGGER than a 1/4 pound burger. Unfortunately a large number of Americans aren’t. Funny they didn’t mention this problem in the video.
A&W was a huge family favorite in the 50s and 60s. We would take a drive in the country and eventually end up at DQ or A&W. A&W used to serve free baby beers in small mugs to us kids. On a hot summer afternoon, the ice-cold root beer was heaven-sent. Very fond memories.
One of my friends when I was young his family had an A&W franchise. Our small town had few places to eat out besides the supper clubs. The root beer at A&W was the best. The burgers were different than most places, with a unique sauce like thousand island dressing. We had a Dairy Queen. That was it. Both only a few blocks from our house. Could ride our bikes to A&W or Dairy Queen. Later after I moved away they got Kentucky Fried Chicken, Hardees.
We were poor when I was a kid so going to McDonald's was a treat, but just before Christmas, every year, we went to Bonanza, to me that was high class, you didn't eat out of a styrofoam box and drink out of a paper cup, it was real glassware, and waitresses came to you for the order...those were good times.
I understand where you are coming from. I came from a similar background where we could never afford to eat out. I remember going to Bonanza and in thought it was a bug deal
Our A&W in West Palm Beach, FL, (corner of Southern Blvd and Parker Ave) featured three sizes of burgers dubbed the PAPA BURGER, MAMA BURGER and the BABY BURGER... Us kids graduating from BABY to MAMA to PAPA was a rite of passage in our family! They also featured the take-home / refillable gallon jug of root beer! What memories...
You forgot K-Mart Delicatesons... and the Blue Plate Special. Nothing quite like the wafting aroma of hotdogs, popcorn, and chili in the air as you shopped at K-Mart. The entrance had Cotton Candy and ready-to-eat, sticky, caramel-covered, apples on a stick. No wonder the carts had nasty sticky handles! ICK!
Oh man, I remember this as a kid. Went away when I was still a kid… I had a few lucky years to enjoy it before it was gone for good. The ghost of the “food stop” was really sad. My Kmart stopped working it but it was still built it for YEARS. They used it as additional storage and caution taped it off. I was always so sad as a kid seeing it… I wanted my popcorn.
I miss Woolworth's so much. As a very young person working in Manhattan, I could actually afford a good lunch at a good price. Plus everything else Woolworth's offered. Sad to see then gone.😢
A little known fact is that Woolworth is still around. The company renamed itself after shifting to focus on it's most profitable item, shoe sales. The company is now called Footlocker. No joke, look it up.
The first drive-through restaurant was created by Sheldon "Red" Chaney in 1947, in Springfield, Missouri. The restaurant was called Red's Giant Hamburg and was located on Route 66. It served customers until its closure in 1984
I missed Shakey's since 82. All the pizza, fried chicken, potato wedges, and salad we can eat. Also, Ponderosa, Quizno's, Hungry Hobo, Ruby Tuesday, and Rax.
Right now they are building an A &W/ Long John's Silver restaurant near my house. Not only has burgers and hot dogs but fish also along with the A&W root beer.
I remember as a kid in church I just couldn't wait for it to end because, I knew we were going to eat at Ponderosa after! It was so good you could get the chopped steak dinner with the salad bar buffet included. I still remember how cheap it was.. like $6 This was between the mid-1980s to late 80's
There was nothing greater on this earth than drinking that A & W root beer as a kid on a hot summer day. My mom would get one of those big glass jugs of it and bring it home once a month and chill it in the freezer until it was near frozen then leave it out for an hour ~ that was her trick
only one thing goes better than chicken strips at McDonald's which failed for some reason was MCRIB sandwich with side fries and coke was best combo ever guess something don't work out.
A&W restaurants are still around, I eat at the one in the Mall of America still. There's one in Baldwin Wisconsin where I go every year for memorial day.
I've never seen an A&W restaurant other than from movie and TV footage in California until I found one in the food court in the Gulf View Square Mall in Port Richey, Florida. Now that mall is all but gone.
I remember the Woolworths cafeteria in downtown Chicago as a kid. The only thing that slightly resembles that now is Grand Lux Cafe on Michigan Ave. in Chicago but, that now is closing soon or closed recently. It was a nice place to eat with a date and, watch the shoppers outside the window.
Sizzler and Ponderosa still hanging on in Kissimmee, FL. I forgot about Quiznos, Red Barn, Roy Rogers, and Steak and Ale I got a real mental through back with those.
Shakey's pizza. 🍕 👍🏻 My town in central California only had an A&W Drive-In and a Shakey's Pizza. We were kind of (still) an "oil boomtown," so we had few nice, family owned, sit-town restaurants, too. The biggest buildings in town were the Crocker Bank and the Safeway grocery store.
@@droe2570 They didn’t last here in Rhode Island,McDonald’s and Burger Chef were undercutting them. Then Burger Chef tanked in 1982,becoming Hardee’s and Burger King,then Hardee’s locations in my area became Burger King..
There was a Sambo's near Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. When we visited Disneyland, my parents would take us to Sambo's for breakfast. I liked the mural-story of "Little Black Sambo" that was painted (wallpapered?) around the dining area. I realize that the story of "LBS" would be considered "that's racist!" today, but I enjoyed the "theme restaurants" when I was a kid during the 1970s.
We have an A&W combined with a Long John Silver's, on East Fowler Avenue in Tampa, Florida. They aren't a drive-in, but they DO have a drive through, so you can get your order, park, and eat in your car.
Big Boy Burgers were pretty big and delicious when I was a kid. It was a staple in our neighborhood! That was when my mother and father were still alive. Getting nostalgic!😢😊
I never paid A&W much mind until I joined the navy and was stationed in Bahrain. Any stationed in Bahrain knows P911 or 'P9' for short. A&W was my go-to spot when I was craving a burger and now I go there because of the nostalgia. It really grew on me
The A&W's near me are long gone, but I'm glad to hear the chain is still around. I loved their mugs of root beer, as well as their burgers. I was always amused by the names: Papa burger, Mama burger, Teen burger, Baby burger... can't get more family-friendly than that, lol.
There used to be a Red Barn around here as "The Farm" but it closed in early 2020 (nothing to do with lockdowns). It's since re-opened as Burgers and More; it's still the Red Barn building.
Sizzlers final blow came when a little girl died after eating contaminated fruit from the buffet. i used to like to get a buffet lunch there sometimes.
I can't believe Quiznos went under because they had good food. However, the "franchise" business model often causes problems whenever the franchises don't maintain high standards of good food, decent prices and clean restaurants! If the head office doesn't deploy inspectors to investigate and report sub standard practices, a bad reputation will kill a chain slowly and relentlessly!
A&W in Canada is the second largest chain after McDonald's... It almost tastes the same as the 1980's version with a few tweaks.. Still one of the better budget burger chains around...
@@mediawarrior5957 No,it was actually unsolved murders in an Indiana location that Burger Chef had to settle with murdered employees in a corporate restaurant that haven’t been solved till this day!!!
Last summer I went to an A&W restaurant in the small town of Fosston, Minnesota and that whole experience was fantastic. Especially their root beer float and cheese curds 😎
I can still recall going to the A&W in W. Springfield, Mass. shortly after I got back from Vietnam in 1972. I was much surprised to find the building boarded up. It had gone out of business a couple of weeks earlier. I was very disappointed because it was my favorite spot for having a couple of hot dogs and root beer.
You always speak of a healthy new menu and food, and new concepts!!! News flash have you and everybody on this site been to some of these new restaurants??? You tell me I totally miss these restaurants!!
I worked for A&W back in the 80's. I had opportunity to work a few shifts at the last drive-in in 🇨🇦. We still made the rootbeer in store, whistle dogs and fresh hand cut n bettered onion rings! The worst mistake A&W made was going away from foil pkging imo
Wikipedia A&W Canada. The company was initially a subsidiary of the U.S.-based A&W Restaurants chain, with the subsidiary opening its first franchise in Winnipeg in 1956. In 1972, Unilever acquired A&W's Canadian operations, leading to the subsidiary's separation from the U.S.-based company.[6] In 1995, a Canadian management group made up of A&W franchisees took ownership of the chain from Unilever.[7] The A&W chain in Canada remains privately owned and is headquartered in North Vancouver. As of 2022, A&W was Canada's second-largest fast-food hamburger chain with 1,029 franchises.[8]
@daryllmcgorman I remember in early 1960'sgoing into the A+ W in Brandon , Manitoba and grabbing an ice cold root beer in a frosted mug, boy that tasted swell! The building of A+W was little more than a ppl plywood shack! Lol! Looked forward to that weekly trip, on my paper route of 75 customers, I was 10/ 11 yrs old back then! Lol!!!
We'd go to A&W, and get root beer in the frosted glasses brought out by the carhops. Once the soft drink was sold in supermarkets, going to the fast food places wasn't as important. I like Sizzler's salad bar because they also had hot food like chicken wings too, something I had not seen before.
We had most of these fast food chains in NYC. I liked Wetsons, they were the predecessor of Wendy's. I remember Wetsons in 1975 when I was a very young man. Their burgers were very good. I took my dog there too. She loved the experience sitting in the front seat of the car. She was so happy with those little car trips.
Wetsons and Wendy’s aren’t related in any way, Wetson started in 1959 in NY and closed in 1975. Wendy’s was started in 1969 in Ohio by former KFC employee Dave Thomas and is still going. Looking at both restaurants backgrounds and their founders, they have zero in common. One was a success and the other was a failure
In my hometown of Ortonville, Michigan has a drive in A&W that still operates to this day but it's seasonal. Closed during Winter months and colder Fall and Spring months.
A&W is 2nd to McDonalds when it comes to burger chains in Canada with way more locations than Wendys or Burger King. A&W is my first choice out of the 4.
I remember many of these "fast food joints". Growing up, my family enjoyed going to Ponderosa. Ponderosa had the same service model as Bonanza (which came about a little earlier) and York (which came about later). The three of them probably have less than 25 restaurants left combined in the US. Was it the changing tastes of patrons or bad management (or both)? You could have several more shows on national and regional brands that have (all but) disappeared. I remember Kewpee hamburgers. Dave Thomas got the idead for his hamburgers from them. He was the much better businessman since Wendy's is a huge chain and Kewpee's has less than a dozen places left!
Always heard the Sizzler commercials in the 70's as a kid. Wanted to try it out. We moved to a state that, I'm not sure if it had any Sizzlers. I had my opportunity about 5 years ago (40 ish years later) in a neighboring state but , declined because my girlfriend at the time was a vegan and, the parking lot was kind of bare every time i drove past it and, i mentally questioned the food quality so, i decided not to go . We did find a nice quiet Restaurant next to a lake about a quarter mile from the Sizzler on the same street.
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What is your most missed fast food chain?
SAMS Hamburgers 5 for 5 dollars
The Hot N Now by me was turned into an auto store.
Not fast food, but definitely Howard Johnson. Oh man, Stuckey's pecan log rolls. Nothing compares.
Burger Chef.
McDonalds. Lost it's flavor.
I have an A&W right down the street from me. There are several through out Michigan and there are some in Wisconsin also.
The still have stores - but the drive ins closed.
I wish they were still in illinois
I'm 1 block from A&W in Michigan also. We have most of these restaurants still
One close to my house in Ohio as well. They still have the drive up window or you can park and eat in your car.
There building a new a & w in south Colorado
A&W in Canada is going strong. You even used footage from the Canadian commercials.
yeah, we have one in a gas station on the freeway 15 going back to los angeles from las vegas
Canadians are probably smart enough to know that a 1/3 pound burger is BIGGER than a 1/4 pound burger. Unfortunately a large number of Americans aren’t. Funny they didn’t mention this problem in the video.
I used to love Woolies food ,,it eas fast and chep
For brickky it had to be M,S❤️❤️❤️
They were just pointing out that they move from being drive in to dine in
A&W was a huge family favorite in the 50s and 60s. We would take a drive in the country and eventually end up at DQ or A&W. A&W used to serve free baby beers in small mugs to us kids. On a hot summer afternoon, the ice-cold root beer was heaven-sent. Very fond memories.
Me too. Those cute little baby root beer mugs. 🥰
I have an A&W 8 miles north and one 25 miles south from my house.
One of my friends when I was young his family had an A&W franchise. Our small town had few places to eat out besides the supper clubs. The root beer at A&W was the best. The burgers were different than most places, with a unique sauce like thousand island dressing. We had a Dairy Queen. That was it. Both only a few blocks from our house. Could ride our bikes to A&W or Dairy Queen. Later after I moved away they got Kentucky Fried Chicken, Hardees.
It's in Birch Run Michigan. Right across from the Outlet.
We were poor when I was a kid so going to McDonald's was a treat, but just before Christmas, every year, we went to Bonanza, to me that was high class, you didn't eat out of a styrofoam box and drink out of a paper cup, it was real glassware, and waitresses came to you for the order...those were good times.
I can certainly relate to that!💯 Those were definitely the good old days!👍
I understand where you are coming from. I came from a similar background where we could never afford to eat out. I remember going to Bonanza and in thought it was a bug deal
@@Defiantone427 us to in Illinois suburban Chicago
Shaky's Pizza & Ferrill's Ice Cream for me and I'm 60 yrs old! Quite the memories for me!😀
I grew up calling it "shi#$ys" pizza. Sorry
Ferrillos was a blast
@@DoktorChill i think there is still one over near Redlands.
We had a Shaky’s in Cedar Rapids Iowa where I grew up. We didn’t eat out often, but did go there several times a year.
There's shakeys all over california
Our A&W in West Palm Beach, FL, (corner of Southern Blvd and Parker Ave) featured three sizes of burgers dubbed the PAPA BURGER, MAMA BURGER and the BABY BURGER... Us kids graduating from BABY to MAMA to PAPA was a rite of passage in our family! They also featured the take-home / refillable gallon jug of root beer! What memories...
I appreciate the no-nonsense and pace of this video.
A&W best root beer ever!❤
yes
In Canada yes, made with proper cane sugar and natural flavourings, the US version is corn syrup crap.
So is are there burgers❤
@@floydsemlow8253 the burgers are good !
Corn syrup in canada toi@@alittlebitgone
Thank you for bringing back some great childhood memories!
You forgot K-Mart Delicatesons... and the Blue Plate Special. Nothing quite like the wafting aroma of hotdogs, popcorn, and chili in the air as you shopped at K-Mart. The entrance had Cotton Candy and ready-to-eat, sticky, caramel-covered, apples on a stick. No wonder the carts had nasty sticky handles! ICK!
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Can't remember if it was KMart or JC Penny's, but the grilled cheese and orange soda was such a treat as a kid.
Bag of ham and cheese sandwiches and an Icee mix cherry and blueberry
Oh man, I remember this as a kid. Went away when I was still a kid… I had a few lucky years to enjoy it before it was gone for good. The ghost of the “food stop” was really sad. My Kmart stopped working it but it was still built it for YEARS. They used it as additional storage and caution taped it off. I was always so sad as a kid seeing it… I wanted my popcorn.
Walmart had this also
A&W was one of the best places to go in the sixties and seventies they need to make a comeback
I live 15 in away from a A&W❤ cheers from Chardon Ohio. I absolutely agree to your comment. Come back for sure!
A&W is everywhere in Canada. Still can get the Papa, Mama and Teen Burgers as well as the root beer in a frosted mug.
Real good smell of those malty root beers with the burgers, etc
My grandfather took me and my sister to Sizzlers in the early 70’s. Every Friday.
I miss Woolworth's so much. As a very young person working in Manhattan, I could actually afford a good lunch at a good price. Plus everything else Woolworth's offered. Sad to see then gone.😢
A little known fact is that Woolworth is still around. The company renamed itself after shifting to focus on it's most profitable item, shoe sales. The company is now called Footlocker. No joke, look it up.
@@DukeWeIIington wow. I didn't know
I miss these old chains they were so much better than what we have now days
A&W is extremely popular on Okinawa, Japan. They're everywhere.
Similar to what you mentioned, I was in Ireland last Fall and there wasn’t a 7-11 or AM/PM in sight but there were Circle K’s everywhere you looked.
They are in Canada too, just had some raspberry pies a couple of days ago.
That like when artist lose popularity in the US and continue success abroad
Sizzler was me and my dad’s favorite, miss him much
... was my* and my dad's favorite
When I went to Puerto Rico I was amazed to see a sizzles buffet!!! I was like wow man !
Sorry sizzles it was good
Darn it ! Auto type...sizzler
Sizzles was a treat when I was in elementary and jr. High
I will never forget the taste of Woolworths chicken, it was sooo good.
The first drive-through restaurant was created by Sheldon "Red" Chaney in 1947, in Springfield, Missouri. The restaurant was called Red's Giant Hamburg and was located on Route 66. It served customers until its closure in 1984
I missed Shakey's since 82. All the pizza, fried chicken, potato wedges, and salad we can eat. Also, Ponderosa, Quizno's, Hungry Hobo, Ruby Tuesday, and Rax.
Roy Rogers is still a thing for the truckers traveling the Eastern seaboard
Right now they are building an A &W/ Long John's Silver restaurant near my house. Not only has burgers and hot dogs but fish also along with the A&W root beer.
I remember as a kid in church I just couldn't wait for it to end because, I knew we were going to eat at Ponderosa after! It was so good you could get the chopped steak dinner with the salad bar buffet included. I still remember how cheap it was.. like $6
This was between the mid-1980s to late 80's
A&W Makes some Good Root Beer
In Canada yes, they do, with proper cane sugar and natural flavourings, the US version is corn syrup crap.
There is still an AnW in Belleville, Michigan. I grew up there. Lots of happy memories n still go there regularly.
There was nothing greater on this earth than drinking that A & W root beer as a kid on a hot summer day. My mom would get one of those big glass jugs of it and bring it home once a month and chill it in the freezer until it was near frozen then leave it out for an hour ~ that was her trick
I always thought Bennigans was much better that TGIF
only one thing goes better than chicken strips at McDonald's which failed for some reason was MCRIB sandwich with side fries and coke was best combo ever guess something don't work out.
Where I grew up, we had a A&W . But as got a little older it closed, Shakeys , Woolworths, sizzlers,visiting all of these, places of the past. 👍🏼
I ate at a Shakeys pizza when I was in California…my parents couldn’t believe it was around and probably one of the best pizzas I had
We always hit the A&W drive in after a day at the beach or pool. A frosty rootbeer and soft serve cone was a real treat!
Woolworths was great. They made it into the 90s. Bennigans had the monte cristo sandwich
Woolworths closed the rest of their stores in the late 1990's. I use to work at one. Their food was actually decent for five & dime store...
Bob’s Big Boy had the best burgers around. Their malts were amazing too.
‘……the ‘best’ burgers around.’???
I don’t know about that.
I liked their burgers with mashed potatoes and salad very good
The slim Jim’s were awesome
Ponderosa...my first job at 16. $3.35 an hour!! I miss York steak house. Used to be one in our mall. Every'time we went to the mall, we went there.
You know I'm old too because my first job I only made $5.15 an hour
A&W restaurants are still around, I eat at the one in the Mall of America still. There's one in Baldwin Wisconsin where I go every year for memorial day.
We still have many A&W here in Michigan. A&W is my favorite restaurant. ❤😋🤤
Yeah, I live in Mason and it's still here.
I've never seen an A&W restaurant other than from movie and TV footage in California until I found one in the food court in the Gulf View Square Mall in Port Richey, Florida. Now that mall is all but gone.
There's a drive-in location 10 minutes from my apartment and I used to be less than 3 miles from it!
Yeah A&W is amazing and all over here. The bacon double is soooooo good and the fries are the best even cold.
I remember the Woolworths cafeteria in downtown Chicago as a kid. The only thing that slightly resembles that now is Grand Lux Cafe on Michigan Ave. in Chicago but, that now is closing soon or closed recently. It was a nice place to eat with a date and, watch the shoppers outside the window.
Sizzler and Ponderosa still hanging on in Kissimmee, FL. I forgot about Quiznos, Red Barn, Roy Rogers, and Steak and Ale I got a real mental through back with those.
Shakey's was awesome! Those Jo Jo potatoes were so good. I miss Ground Round, Zantigo and Big Boy too.
Zantigos. That's a name I haven't heard in a while. Good stuff!
Shakey's pizza. 🍕 👍🏻 My town in central California only had an A&W Drive-In and a Shakey's Pizza. We were kind of (still) an "oil boomtown," so we had few nice, family owned, sit-town restaurants, too. The biggest buildings in town were the Crocker Bank and the Safeway grocery store.
We have Big Boys here in Michigan.
@@droe2570 They didn’t last here in Rhode Island,McDonald’s and Burger Chef were undercutting them. Then Burger Chef tanked in 1982,becoming Hardee’s and Burger King,then Hardee’s locations in my area became Burger King..
i remember sambos as a kid in the late 70s & early 80s. they shut down then they reopen as denny's
I loved Sambos as a kid. Our got turned into a Godfather's pizza, then a bank.
There was a Sambo's near Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. When we visited Disneyland, my parents would take us to Sambo's for breakfast. I liked the mural-story of "Little Black Sambo" that was painted (wallpapered?) around the dining area. I realize that the story of "LBS" would be considered "that's racist!" today, but I enjoyed the "theme restaurants" when I was a kid during the 1970s.
Not true. Denny's purchased some Sambos locations, but separate restaurant chains.
We have an A&W combined with a Long John Silver's, on East Fowler Avenue in Tampa, Florida. They aren't a drive-in, but they DO have a drive through, so you can get your order, park, and eat in your car.
Liability insurance issues killed car hop formats.
We have one combined with Kentucky fried chicken in Oregon
My memory of Stuckey's in the sixties was passing them by for more reasonably priced local offerings. My parents thought they screamed 'tourist trap'.
Kachina Dolls!
We have a A & W here in Standish Michigan & the Drive up is open,, they have wonderful Chili Cheese Fries,,Dam it now I want A &W,,lol
I love this new RUclips videos!! I'm a big fan already !!
Big Boy Burgers were pretty big and delicious when I was a kid. It was a staple in our neighborhood! That was when my mother and father were still alive.
Getting nostalgic!😢😊
Downtown Woolworths in the 70's was a Saturday go to after wandering downtown for the day
Miss my A&W. Great cheap burgers and dogs.
Not so cheap these days !
Walgreens had restaurants called WAGS. They went out of business too as I remember.
‘Wags’ are what the Orcs rode on in LOTR.
I never paid A&W much mind until I joined the navy and was stationed in Bahrain. Any stationed in Bahrain knows P911 or 'P9' for short. A&W was my go-to spot when I was craving a burger and now I go there because of the nostalgia. It really grew on me
Burger Chef? No Burger Chef? You got Red Barn, which was one of the ones I thought of immediately but no Burger Chef (and Jeff).
My mom worked at Burger Chef and then Hardees when they changed over. After Hardees, she worked at Ames.
@@wintersprite - I found out after this post that they did Burger Chef in part one of these videos.
The A&W's near me are long gone, but I'm glad to hear the chain is still around. I loved their mugs of root beer, as well as their burgers. I was always amused by the names: Papa burger, Mama burger, Teen burger, Baby burger... can't get more family-friendly than that, lol.
Wisconsin loves A&W and we have many here!
I can still go to A&W, Shakey's, and Sizzler
There used to be a Red Barn around here as "The Farm" but it closed in early 2020 (nothing to do with lockdowns). It's since re-opened as Burgers and More; it's still the Red Barn building.
As a kid , I remeber going to an A & W RESTAURANT on a very hot summer day and having an ice cold
A & W ROOT BEER in a frosted mug !
Sizzlers final blow came when a little girl died after eating contaminated fruit from the buffet. i used to like to get a buffet lunch there sometimes.
I frequented a Woolworth lunch counter in Audubon NJ. Loved it!!
Grew up in a small town with an old-school A&W. When it closed, I asked my mom why. She said "because they served warm root beer and cold fries."
Brown Derby, Bob Evans, and Chi-Chi's as well.
I remember when I was a kid, my folks for a treat would take us to Santa Monica to the A&W for a root beer float. Loved it.
I can't believe Quiznos went under because they had good food. However, the "franchise" business model often causes problems whenever the franchises don't maintain high standards of good food, decent prices and clean restaurants! If the head office doesn't deploy inspectors to investigate and report sub standard practices, a bad reputation will kill a chain slowly and relentlessly!
We have quite a few A & W fast food joints in Texas. I loved Shakey's never forget it. Great vid remember most of these.
A&W in Canada is the second largest chain after McDonald's... It almost tastes the same as the 1980's version with a few tweaks.. Still one of the better budget burger chains around...
Surprised no Burger Chef mentioned. They created the Fun Meal with a toy included which McDonald's nicked years later for the Happy Meal.
Mentioned in part 1 😃 ruclips.net/video/AJBsbdFjm4c/видео.htmlsi=Yda7B8sG_ZbXhKGK
Burger Chef, come for breakfast get served at lunch. Slow Service. Died because it S U C K E D.
@@mediawarrior5957 No,it was actually unsolved murders in an Indiana location that Burger Chef had to settle with murdered employees in a corporate restaurant that haven’t been solved till this day!!!
Last summer I went to an A&W restaurant in the small town of Fosston, Minnesota and that whole experience was fantastic. Especially their root beer float and cheese curds 😎
A&w is going strong.. there's like 10 of them I scroll past on uber eats lol
I remember Hills department store and the little eatery at the back of the store. Always got the nachos.
I can still recall going to the A&W in W. Springfield, Mass. shortly after I got back from Vietnam in 1972. I was much surprised to find the building boarded up. It had gone out of business a couple of weeks earlier. I was very disappointed because it was my favorite spot for having a couple of hot dogs and root beer.
There are still A and W restaurants, just not Drive-Ins. There are still Quiznos locations. There's one at my local hospital
Crazy to think there are almost double the number of A&W's in Canada compared to the US.
No mention of Chi-Chi's? That chain was huge in the 1970s and 80s, then disappeared almost overnight.
You always speak of a healthy new menu and food, and new concepts!!! News flash have you and everybody on this site been to some of these new restaurants??? You tell me I totally miss these restaurants!!
I worked for A&W back in the 80's. I had opportunity to work a few shifts at the last drive-in in 🇨🇦. We still made the rootbeer in store, whistle dogs and fresh hand cut n bettered onion rings! The worst mistake A&W made was going away from foil pkging imo
Wikipedia A&W Canada. The company was initially a subsidiary of the U.S.-based A&W Restaurants chain, with the subsidiary opening its first franchise in Winnipeg in 1956. In 1972, Unilever acquired A&W's Canadian operations, leading to the subsidiary's separation from the U.S.-based company.[6] In 1995, a Canadian management group made up of A&W franchisees took ownership of the chain from Unilever.[7]
The A&W chain in Canada remains privately owned and is headquartered in North Vancouver. As of 2022, A&W was Canada's second-largest fast-food hamburger chain with 1,029 franchises.[8]
@daryllmcgorman I remember in early 1960'sgoing into the A+ W in Brandon , Manitoba and grabbing an ice cold root beer in a frosted mug, boy that tasted swell! The building of A+W was little more than a ppl plywood shack! Lol! Looked forward to that weekly trip, on my paper route of 75 customers, I was 10/ 11 yrs old back then! Lol!!!
A&W Restaurants are still around but the almost all the old Drive-ins are gone a replaced by Dine-in and Drive-thru service only.
We'd go to A&W, and get root beer in the frosted glasses brought out by the carhops. Once the soft drink was sold in supermarkets, going to the fast food places wasn't as important. I like Sizzler's salad bar because they also had hot food like chicken wings too, something I had not seen before.
Now we have Sonics and they are pretty good
There us over 1000 a&w location in Canada . Most small town in canada have an a&w subway dairy queen and tim hortans. For fast food options.
Miss going to A &W! Had some good memories there with my parents and grandparents
We had most of these fast food chains in NYC. I liked Wetsons, they were the predecessor of Wendy's. I remember Wetsons in 1975 when I was a very young man. Their burgers were very good. I took my dog there too. She loved the experience sitting in the front seat of the car. She was so happy with those little car trips.
Wetsons and Wendy’s aren’t related in any way, Wetson started in 1959 in NY and closed in 1975. Wendy’s was started in 1969 in Ohio by former KFC employee Dave Thomas and is still going. Looking at both restaurants backgrounds and their founders, they have zero in common. One was a success and the other was a failure
FADED FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS :
@00:20 : A & W DRIVE - IN RESTAURANT
@01:25 : SHAKEY'S PIZZA AND BUFFET RESTAURANT
@02:25 : WOOLWORTH'S COUNTER RESTAURANT
@03:15 : SIZZLER'S STEAK HOUSE RESTAURANT
@04:15 : ROY ROGER'S RESTAURANT
@05:10 : STUCKEY'S RESTAURANT
@06:10 : BENNIGAN'S RESTAURANT
@06:50 : PONDEROSA STEAKHOUSE RESTAURANT
@07:50 : STEAK & ALE RESTAURANT
@08:50 : RED BARN HAMBURGERS RESTAURANT
@09:50 : SAMBO'S RESTAURANT
@10:45 : WETSON'S RESTAURANT
@11:35 : YORK STEAKHOUSE RESTAURANT
@12:30 : PO FOLKS RESTAURANT
@13:20 : PENGUIN POINT RESTAURANT
@14:15 : GOODY'S RESTAURANT
@14:55 : SOUPLANTATION RESTAURANT
@15:55 : WALGREEN'S LUNCH COUNTER RESTAURANT
@16:48 : CHARLIE BROWN'S STEAKHOUSE RESTAURANT
@17:35 : QUIZNO'S TOASTED SUBS RESTAURANT
We're I'm from here in central NY. We still have a drive in dine in A &W. Best place in town.
Just stopped at an A&W in Kansas last year.
Well, I ate at an AW last week. Seems like there's at least two of them here in Des Moines.
Prices were affordable back then...i miss the good old days...
You and me both!
I literally just ate at an A&W yesterday. They're all over the city in Vegas
There is an a&w stand right down the road from me the place is a gold mine its crowded all summer
In my hometown of Ortonville, Michigan has a drive in A&W that still operates to this day but it's seasonal. Closed during Winter months and colder Fall and Spring months.
A&W Drive Inn on CY Ave in Casper Wyoming circa 1968. The best. ❤
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A&W is 2nd to McDonalds when it comes to burger chains in Canada with way more locations than Wendys or Burger King. A&W is my first choice out of the 4.
First and only!
I miss a chili cheese dog and a root beer float from Dog N Suds.
I liked their coney dogs and onion rings. We used to call them Arf n Barf even though the food was good.
5:08 Stuckey's roadside billboards had a simple slogan, "Eat with us and GET GAS!"
A&W is the oldest fast-food chain in the country and is still going strong. We have a lot of them in Idaho and the northwest.
Not really, A&W sold root beer only before any fast food chains existed but White Castle started selling food before A&W did.
Friendly's, Johnny Rockets, and Golden Corral should be on the list
I'm toasted like a Quiznos sandwich- Curren$y
A&w was a bit more classy and had really really good food. They're double burgers were the best and their milkshakes were great.
I just drove back from the East Coast and there are Roy Rodgers on the turnpike.
I remember many of these "fast food joints". Growing up, my family enjoyed going to Ponderosa. Ponderosa had the same service model as Bonanza (which came about a little earlier) and York (which came about later). The three of them probably have less than 25 restaurants left combined in the US. Was it the changing tastes of patrons or bad management (or both)? You could have several more shows on national and regional brands that have (all but) disappeared. I remember Kewpee hamburgers. Dave Thomas got the idead for his hamburgers from them. He was the much better businessman since Wendy's is a huge chain and Kewpee's has less than a dozen places left!
Always heard the Sizzler commercials in the 70's as a kid. Wanted to try it out. We moved to a state that, I'm not sure if it had any Sizzlers. I had my opportunity about 5 years ago (40 ish years later) in a neighboring state but , declined because my girlfriend at the time was a vegan and, the parking lot was kind of bare every time i drove past it and, i mentally questioned the food quality so, i decided not to go . We did find a nice quiet Restaurant next to a lake about a quarter mile from the Sizzler on the same street.
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Great stuff.
Shakeys pizza was a great place. Love it
Very interesting! I do remember a few of them😅