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In the early 80s a father and son moved to my little
NorCal town along with their families from LA. They
purchased the local A&W franchise. They were hardcore
conservatives and the son became one of my close pals.
Throughout their affiliation with A&W they fought with
the corp over food quality. As everyone knows what A&W
had going for it was their very popular rootbeer. The
franchise owners had the exclusive until the Corp
started selling the RB thru markets. That killed it
for most of the franchisees including my friends. As
soon as they could they bounced A&W and changed their
name to ‘Big A’ as the family name started with A.
Financially, it was a Godsend for my friends who were
great business people who had already quit buying
burger meat from A&W. Even my fussy mom thought their
fare was the best fast food in town, Nobody in town
actually missed the A&W since the rest of the menu
was good.

Anyway, my point is....I forget but your post brought
back fond memories.