Description The old-fashioned root beer stand lives on, thanks to this business. A subsidiary of fast-food giant YUM! Brands, A&W Restaurants franchises more than 700 quick-service restaurants in the US and about 15 other countries. The eateries, many of which still offer drive-up service in addition to dine-in seating, offer a menu featuring hamburgers, hot dogs, onion rings, and fries, along with its signature root beer. A&W traces its roots back to a California root beer stand business started by Roy Allen in 1919. YUM! Brands is the world's largest fast-food franchisor and owns such chains as KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell.
A&W Restaurants has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,405 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The A&W Restaurants employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants & Food Service industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 54% of employees would recommend working at A&W Restaurants to a friend. This is based on 1,445 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
68% of job seekers rate their interview experience at A&W Restaurants as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 1.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at A&W Restaurants.