I've seen plenty of A&W Restaurants in my travels throughout Canada. There are also a few A&W…read morelocations in the Northeast USA, in which some locations are open seasonally and other locations are cobranded with KFC, Taco Bell, or Pizza Hut.
The A&W/KFC location (Salem, NH) near my home closed up, which was mediocre anyways. I used to stop at that particular A&W location for the root beer floats, which served flat root beer most of the time and the employees there could care less. I hoped the next visit would be better than the previous visit, but it just didn't happen there.
This A&W Restaurant in Saint John resembles a retro 1950s style drive-in restaurant which has a self serve dining room and drive-thru. A&W serves up their signature Burger Family Combos including Papa, Mama, Double Mama, Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle, Teen, Double Teen, Chicken Grill Deluxe, Veggie Deluxe, Chubby Chicken Strips, Chubby Burger, and Chubby Fried Chicken buckets. They are also featuring Sirloin Uncle Burger Combos too!
The Combos come with choice of fries or side salad (similar concept to Wendy's) and A&W Root Beer. For additional charge(s), you can upgrade to onion rings or poutine instead of fries and also upgrade from a root beer to a root beer float.
The A&W Restaurants in the USA do not serve poutines, but also serve up hot dogs, chili dogs, corn dog nuggets, fried cheese curds, and ice cream treats.
I stopped by this A&W Restaurant recently for a Root Beer Float ($2.99 plus HST), which was served in a cold glass mug with hard packed vanilla ice cream and cold A&W Root Beer, foaming over the top, ahhhhhhh!!! This A&W Root Beer Float is what a root beer float should be, a very refreshing and frosty treat with plenty of carbonation in the root beer, a far contrast from the "flat" root beer floats at the "now closed" A&W (Salem, NH) near my home.
I will be sure to stop by this A&W location again and other Yelp recommended A&W locations in Canada for my root beer float fix!
FREE WIFI at this location