A & W and Wendy’s are two of the leading fast food restaurants in the world today. Both restaurants have thousands of locations across the globe and serve millions of people each day. Aside from the difference in their menus, both company’s have unique backgrounds. Each company comes from their own time and place in the history of restaurants.
The A & W legally began much before Wendy’s. Ray Allen from Lodi, California, mixed up his first batch of root beer and sold it for five cents. A few years later he took on a partner, Frank Wright, and using the first initial of each of t