Thursday, March 26, 2009

"A&W plans big expansion in Milwaukee"

http://www.jsonline.com/business/41906757.html

They're heading our way. Yum! Was the one near Park High once an A&W? I know there once was one on Hwy 32 south of KR. I think the nearest one now is on the Frontage Road off of County Hwy K.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

When I went to Park I think it was called J&W?...Anyways A&W still has the best rootbeer......In the summer the kids and I roadtrip to get some..........Thanks ORBS this is great news for A&W lovers.....

Toad said...

ABBY:

It was J&W because they refused to sell the "Mamma and Pappa" brand burgers. They wanted to stay the way they were, so they had to change the name. NOBODY had a BETTER double cheesburger. I remember going there to buy a gallon of Root Beer on a hot summer night. It couldn't be beat. It's now EMPTY. I had many a lunch when going to Park.

Anonymous said...

Same kind of story up in Plymouth Toad. On the way to Camp Anokijig we'd stop at the A&W in Plymouth. But for reasons unknown to me, the dropped A&W and are now known as Chester's. But us "old timers" still refer to it as A&W.

OrbsCorbs said...

I'm amazed that anyone is expanding in this economy.

drewzepmeister said...

Cool! I haven't had a root beer at drive-in in years! The last was like maybe seven years ago in Shawano. Had anybody tried Sprechter's? A little expensive, but excellent on a hot summer day!

Toad said...

Drewz.:

Sprechers is from Madison, where everything is expensive. Remember .15 cent beers? HUH.

OKIE said...

Oh my gosh, A&W Cheeseburger, fries, Root Beer. Yum!
Everyone pooling their money so we could have lunch there.
The only A&W I know of any more is the one on I-94. I honestly don't know if we have them down here anymore or not. Not by me anyway.
Now I'm hungry.

drewzepmeister said...

Toad-Spretcher's is a buck a bottle around here. Still good stuff. I remember 25 cent tappers of beer at the bar. I know,I'm young:)

BTW logjam,Camp Anokijig ROCKS! So many great memories there!