I Visit A Vintage A&W Root Beer Restaurant And Bask In The Companies History In Sweet Home, OR
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I Visit the A&W in Sweet Home Oregon to discuss the history of America's 1st fast food franchise, enjoy!
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Imagine scrolling RUclips and you see your local A&W! Thanks for visiting our little town!
Did not expect to see my town in the recommended videos. Thanks for stopping by!
My wife used to work at this exact one! We both grew up in Sweet Home, probably at least a third of the kids at the high school had their first job working at A&W.
Hello from Eugene Oregon! I took a road trip with friends a few years back and stopped in Sweet home A&W!!
I’m a cook at this location absolutely love it couldn’t ask for a better boss! Hope you enjoyed your time there!
I just realized there's an A&W in Niagara Falls. Now I want to go there!
Yeah i live in Canada and A&W are as popular as Wendy's. They're everywhere.
There's an A&W about 20 minutes away from me. I love how the roof is like a little hat on top of the building. Their Cream Soda is absolutely top tier
I cannot think of A&W without thinking of Snoopy! Especially the scene from Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (1980) where he drinks a mug of root beer on a checkered table.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about A&W in Canada, being it's own seperate company. We are immensely proud of our A&W restaurants up here, it's like a Canadian badge of honour lol. The food is so damn good. I heard the food in the state's ones are not nearly as good and there are hardly any A&Ws around compared to Canada? I wonder how they compare.
The only annoying thing is up here they totally ditched the 50s/diner vibe and removed any photos and artwork in the restaurants of where they came from. Now it's like this modern/boring/hipster theme lol. I wish they wouldn't walk away from their identity. I can't stand when businesses do that. It was so wild to see this vintage A&W with phone ordering at the tables! And still with drive in ordering! That's absolutely awesome! 😃
Thanks for the great video! Love from British Columbia 🇨🇦❤️
Most of the old school drive in ones are confined to small towns now, like he said most are modern and double ups with other Yum companies and many are a part of big truck stops.
We have one in the city I work in, Cortland, NY. I haven't been in a while, so I think it's a destination for lunch sometime this week.
Used to get coffee here every Friday night after football games
I miss A&W so much. Absolutely love the floats. We used to have several long John's silvers a&w combo restaurants nearby but they closed unfortunately 😞 very interesting to learn the history.
Interesting, I thought A and W started in Canada.
Wow, it’s been a while since I haven’t ate at A&W. My local used to be at Woodfield Mall. It opened around 1984 and closed around 2019.
Correction, the Woodfield Mall location opened in 1985.
Wonderful thank you. Ours closed down in our town😂 I miss it.
We all do, I think most of us would drown in nostalgia and happier times if we could
Have one of these real close to me in Dayton, Ohio, one paired with a Long John Silvers. I’ve never been, even though I LOVE root beer floats, and was always fascinated by it since it was the only one I’d ever seen growing up, lol.
Ive been to one of those when i was little back when i lived in Oregon. I went to one of the ones near the coast when we went to the beach
This was a blast of nostalgia as i remember seeing and a&w store in Minnesota when i lived there. It was quite nice to see you enjoy the store and the food there and wanting to wish you better days ahead and wishing you well during your travels for the summer
It was also nice seeing another a&w store still around and i would love to try it out again after all these years and it was nice to hear about the history
Thank you so much for the tip. And for those kind words, i'm so glad you enjoyed it!
the last time I ate at A & W within the last 6 years was in Vancouver, Canada. Older family members went nuts lol. The locals said they had 3 within the city but supposedly it's down to one. I avoid Portland (most people do) but in Oregon, I might pass by that place for the nostalgia factor.
People in Oregon also avoid Portland, lol. Sweet Home is a good hour South and a few miles West off I-5
as a kid, we used to have on in Veneta but I think its gone....Florence on the coast has an Old school A&W as well
I love eating at A&W there's one at Aztec NM where my dad went to School at and my dad told me he used to go there a lot with his friends in he was in Highschool and my dad still remembers that and I love My Dad so much
It amazes me that A&W now is way more popular in Canada than in the US. I grew up near an A&W but it became a tobacco store. I would love to eat at one again.
Here in Canada A&W burgers are huge. Just as big as Wendy's. Or close. But I did read the A&W restaurants in Canada are not actually affiliated with the ones in the U.S. i love their Papa Burger and their onion rings are really good.
Eaten at that location many times! Love it.
I love A&W
Not only have I eaten at the original A&W in Lodi, I also had pizza at the original Shakey's pizza in Sacramento.
I love going to a&w root beer because it’s totally awesome restaurant, I’m so happy about you got to eating & drinking at there
I haven't been to a A&W in a lotta of years they were certinaly BIG here in California.
I drove past this one a few months ago with family, I really wanted to stop, lol, but family had other plans. I grew up near one in Winston Oregon, such fond memories and wow those root beer floats were great! It was not that many years ago one of the old style drive in ones was still open in Vancouver Washington, a fairly decent sized city of like 170k? a suburb of Portland, now the old drive in ones seem confined to small towns like Sweet Home. As a teen I remember the Winston one being a co-sponsor of a annual car cruise.
My A&W memories are of the one that was in Felton, CA. The building is still there, but unfortunately it is some Chinese restaurant now. But I loved going to it when it was still an A&W. I wish we could bring all that back.
yep, they missed a HUGE marketing opportunity to go full nostalgia even more so than Sonic, people are dying for all kinds of nostalgia
@@deanfirnatine7814 Exactly. And Sonic isn't even that good. A&W was way better.
I’m like 5 minutes away from the Lodi original!!! I love it there. The food is great, the floats are amazing, and YES!!! The best Root Beer EVER!!!! Totally beats the gas station A&W cans lol
Probably the best place to put this aside from an actual McDonald's video but if you're ever driving along the 10 Freeway in California, the McDonald's on W Ramsey Street in Banning still has the golden arches building structure and a Speedy sign outside. I passed by it and thought of you + your videos my Friend 💙
fond memories of n ot just their floats, but their onion rings and burgers
I'm lucky, we have the only drive in A&W left in Vermont! My love of onion rings comes from A&W
Oh God ya the Onion Rings are the best
@deanfirnatine7814 one of my favorites!
I'm in northern NY and most of the A&W's near me are across the border in Canada. But there is still one like the one in this video a couple hours south of me in Cortland. I need to make a trip down there.
Hey kids, road trip!
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I remember the one in San Jose that had a groovy Fireplace.
We just passed by the A&W
YUM Brands! no longer owns Long John Silvers and A&W Restaurants
Who owns them?
I remember the old restaurant in Racine Wi but they closed that one and built across the interstate another one a newer one was disappointed when I ate there they got rid of making them by hand now they use patties but the root beer was good
My mom worked as a carhop at one in Chicago around 1965 when she was 15.
Oakridge Oregon has an old one too!
Root beer floats need to come back.
Great video Chris nothing beats the actual A&W root beer from the actual restaurant
i was about to say that this looks like my local A&W
but that's because it is
Im in oregon, and i see those resturants everywhere! Usualy connected to a kfc, and A&W is my favorite root beer!
You should visit Lodi, CA. The birthplace of A&W. (You already knew that). The original building where they stored the hotdog cart is in the Downtown area. They have a stand alone A&W there, too!
I'm planning on it!
I just grabbed breakfast from A&W.
They're everywhere in Canada. Way better than the Clown food
A&W are now all franchisee's who then in turn I believe own the parent company
Love love their on tap Root Beer!!!!!!
I work at a vintage A&W in Iola, KS. Would be awesome for you to stop by sometime, I’m a huge fan of this channel and would love to meet you. 😎👍
If the mugs aren’t frosted - it’s far from correct.
Yes they were always frosted
The A&W's in my area are complete dumps.
A&w is popular in Canada
I had an A&W near me. It sadly closed a few years ago :(
Think I was traveling across Colorado possibly maybe 5 years or so ago the first time I tried a A&W, not terrible but not that impressed either
Root beer float looks good never been to a A@W restaurant.
@@josephhughes3313 They are definitely worth a stop for those root beer floats.
Can you make a video about Dog N Suds? It’s a restaurant very similar to A&W. I remember going there as a kid and thought their food and root beer was better than A&W.
It's on my list!
if you were going for classic you should have gone to A&W 1 in Lodi CA.
@chefwolf77 I definitely agree with you for the nostalgic sake and the little museum they have inside. I just wish that location was more of a classic design but it's sadly been updated.
@@SetsStreetsEats that's very true but even though it's been a little bit updated I still love that location
You came all the way over here?
That is a really intense intro.
Had an A&W paired with a KFC but A&W got squeezed out and KFC took over the whole building, miss A&W..
Where at
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You should visit the Chucky e cheese in Muncie indiana
I just went!
Just some constructive criticism don't talk while eating. I enjoyed the video until that point. I know it's probably a me thing but there are probably others. Listening to others eat really sets me off like nails in a chalkboard.
So I eat an entire meal without saying a single word. But you still had to comment because I talked while eating the ice cream and sipping the root beer at the end of the meal? Really? Go watch someone else's videos then.
Greece tastes turrible
I personally would not eat a country important safety tip.
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Like wat?
why did you eat a country my man
@@phantomhourglass13
It wat it cooked in ,, my main
Its weird how huge it is in Canada then in the states. Sad america doesn't have the burger family like Canada has. Teen burger is king ❤