"0"^^ . . "I remember A&W from my childhood. Aside from a couple of White Spot locations, A&W was the last place I remember seeing car hop service. (Yes, I'm that old! ;-) ) Over time, A&W seemed to be an endangered species: old locations slowly disappeared, and while new ones popped up from time to time, the new locations didn't seem to appear as quickly as the old one disappeared. No matter how fun and quirky their ads were, A&W seemed to be fading away.\n\nIt turns out, they weren't. On my most recent trip, I was amazed to see how many A&Ws there are these days. (None in town, sadly, but apparently everywhere else.) My guess is that their recent makeover with a big push on fresh ingredients and responsible farming has had a lot to do with that. (Personally, the news that you can get any burger as a lettuce wrap was the deciding point for me, but not everybody is on a low-carb diet, so that probably didn't have much of an effect on the market as a whole.)\n\nWe got to our hotel kind of late after a long shuttle ride, and we were pretty hungry, but not prepared to pay the prices listed in the hotel restaurant, and A&W was one of several fast food joints in the neighbourhood. We just kind of picked at random, but I'm glad that's the choice we made, because it was my first clue of A&W's revival.\n\nIt's still not going to be my first choice, because the only remotely low-carb side dish available is coleslaw, while most fast food joints have at least side salads, if not meal salads, as options these days. Still, the lettuce wrap was pretty good. (Or, possibly, I was just really hungry.)"^^ . "0"^^ . "3"^^ . "0"^^ . . "2018-06-19T00:00:00"^^ . .