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A&W Restaurants

American fast food chain
Organization restaurant_chain Q277641
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Summary

A&W Restaurants is a restaurant chain[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of restaurant chain entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,871 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: fast food restaurant chain[4]
  • Founder: Roy W. Allen[5]
  • Headquarters location: Louisville[6], Lexington[7]
  • Commons category: A&W restaurants[8]
  • Industry: fast food[9]
  • Inception: 1919[10]
  • Location of formation: Lodi[11]
  • Parent organization or unit: Yum! Brands[12]
  • Official website: https://www.awrestaurants.com[13]
  • Product or material produced: hamburger[14], root beer[15]
  • Official blog URL: https://awrestaurants.com/blog-home[16]
  • Number of viewers/listeners: 12,122,614[17]
  • Social media followers: 49,477[18], 57,492[19], 70,511[20]
  • Official shop URL: https://awmerchandise.com/[21]

Why It Matters

A&W Restaurants has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

United States Yum! Brands

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  8. [10] ↑ . books.google.fr. books.google.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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