A&W Restaurants Offers Sweet Relief

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A&W™ restaurants is treating Americans to a sweet deal on Monday, June 16 – a free root beer float and no purchase is necessary.

“We want to give people a great start to their summer and a little economic relief by treating America to one of their favorite sweets, the A&W Root Beer Float”

With gas prices at all time highs, 30 percent higher than a year ago, and grocery food prices increasing by double digits, A&W thought it was high time to provide Americans some sweet relief.

"We want to give people a great start to their summer and a little economic relief by treating America to one of their favorite sweets, the A&W Root Beer Float," said Ben Butler, President, A&W Restaurants. The free A&W Root Beer Float treat will be available at the national restaurant's nearly 700 stores. To learn more about A&W Restaurants visit www.awrestaurants.com.

America’s Favorite Float

The A&W Original Float is made with A&W Root Beer and topped off with proprietary A&W soft serve. A&W Root Beer is the world's number one selling root beer. It is mixed fresh and sold at hundreds of A&W restaurants. To this day, the formula of this favorite root beer made from a unique blend of 13 ingredients including roots, bark, herbs and naturally sweet sugar cane, remains a proprietary secret. It is caffeine free.

Other Sweets and Treats

A&W has expanded its sweets and treats menu and offers a number of one of a kind desserts including:

• The New Oreo Fudge Polar Swirl, available for a limited time, which blends Oreo® cookie pieces, hot fudge, and vanilla soft serve into a creamy summertime treat.
• Root Beer Freeze, made mostly of soft serve with A&W Root Beer blended in.
• Shakes made with soft serve and in favorite flavors of vanilla, strawberry and chocolate, sundaes and soft serve cones.

America’s Favorite

The A&W brand was founded in 1919 and is famous for serving a signature frosty mug root beer float, hotdogs and pure-beef hamburgers. There are more than 1,000 A&W All American Food outlets in 15 countries and territories around the world, and more than 600 additional points of distribution at Yum! Brands multi-brand restaurants. A&W Restaurants, Inc. is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), Louisville, Ky.