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A&W Restaurants Offers Sweet Relief.


Free Root Beer Floats to Everyone Monday, June 16 - National Free Float Free float

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

With gas prices at all time highs, 30 percent higher than a year ago, and grocery food prices increasing by double digits Double Digits was a pricing game on the American television game show, The Price Is Right. Played from April 20, 1973 through May 18, 1973's show, it was played for a car and used small prizes. , 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 Ben Butler might refer to:
  • Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician)
  • Ben Butler (actor) a contemporary American actor.
, 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[R] cookie pieces, hot fudge Hot Fudge, a.k.a. The Hot Fudge Show, was an American children's television series that aired in syndication from 1976 to 1980. The series was produced in Detroit at WXYZ-TV. , 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 Mug Root Beer is a brand name of root beer made by the Pepsi company.

Mug was first produced by the Belfast Beverage Company in San Francisco, California during the early 1950s. Its name was changed to Mug Old Fashioned 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 Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) or Yum! is a Fortune 500 corporation, that operates or licenses A&W (excluding Canada), KFC, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell restaurants worldwide. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, it is the world's largest quick-service (a.k.a.  multi-brand restaurants. A&W Restaurants, Inc. is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE NYSE

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: YUM), Louisville, Ky.
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