A&W Restaurant Reviews

A & W originated in Lodi. The food is good and the staff are always friendly. I used to take my grandkids for the family meal when we lived there in the early 2000's. The family meal is affordable for people with kids. Love those root beer floats!

We eat here every few months. Fun place to visit with a collection of A&W memoriabilia as the first A&W restaurant ever. They give your root beer in a tall mug glass that has been chilled in the freezer, love it. There is a bell at the door to ring if you liked your service.

It's no different from the A&W Location in most parts of the Country, which is Unkool because it's in Lodi, California the town that is the starting place for Roy Allen's Rootbeer stand in 1919. They DON'T seem to care about being the best location, just the most modern money driven one. If you call them, they won't answer but put you on voice mail so they can supposedly "call you back". I was really hoping they would be PACKED like IN-N-OUT to NOT answer my phone calls after three times, but they weren't. I've worked at a MUCH BETTER AND BUSIER Diner where we didn't get the phone ring without answering it, EVEN during a RUSH or HOLIDAY CROWD when we were understaffed! So there's no EXUSES for them from me. They employees seem to all be dragging there Butts around unhappy which makes there costumer service poor because they aren't exited to be in the town where A&W started from give anyone mediocre service as they go through the motions to get your order and on to the next person. I learned from the Manager as well that this location as I seen on Google maps WAS, let me say that again WAS an A&W Drive-in hop restaurant. BUT the now current owner changed the hops into a solar panel Drive thru and car port. Now here's the thing out the Drive thru, if you look at the pictures I have up. You will see that it's not like other "fast food" Drive thrus, you go around the solar panels port to a menu board and speaker like usual, BUT once you place your order, you pull off closer to the building where you WAIT in your CAR for them to do a carry out FOR YOU to your car as they COME from the BACK door. Sound a lot similar to a DRIVE-IN Resturant to me EXCEPT you drive off once you get you food, BUT WAIT you can do they SAME after you order from a CAR HOP at the DRIVE-IN! they reason some so hacked is because it's HARD TO FIND stand ALONE A&W joints, then Put on top of that an original A&W DRIVE-IN! Why can't they have kept the spots where cars park NOW as Drive-in hops? Then you have the best of both worlds and DON'T throw away American tradition?? Or Just have it where you take down two Drive-in hop spots so there can be a Drive-Thru? Either way, it's the ONLY A&W in Lodi because Roy Allen's Rootbeer stand is GONE so it leaves this joint to uphold the standard for what you see in A&W. The reason they Took away a DRIVE-IN is because "times are changing and they need to keep up with the days now of business and get more money" so forget that it's HARD to find an A&W in a building BY ITS SELF now-a-days, FORGET that's Drive-in Resturant are an AMERICAN TRADITION, Forget that A&W business is doing good because they have MANY other locations but COULDN'T KEEP THIS ONE TRADITIONAL because they WANT MORE MONEY. A&W SHOULD have keep this a Drive-in Resturant with a new Drive thru, and they SHOULD have SAVED Roy Allen's Rootbeer stand on Pine St. I would only say that this location is good for looking at how GREAT A&W once WAS but NO LONGER IS. I didn't want any food here because for some reason A&W is notorious for putting hair in my food almost every time I order it. But for my cousin EVERYTIME at any location for some NASTY REASON for him.

Been coming here for years. #1 IN FOOD AND SERVICE. LOVE TUESDAYS

Great fast food spot, good food and there is a lot of car events at this spot. Its the first original A&W ever built.

Nice place made me nostalgic, try the cheese curds! Yum

Their bacon burger is so much better than McDonald's, Burger King, and any other places. Ive been to other A&w restaurants and they're not good. The one in Lodi is the best. I think it's the owner that cooks? And he actually cares about how his burgers taste. The fries are ok but I love their bacon burger and rootbeer floats :)

This is the original 1919 A&W it can't get any better.

The BOGO deal is great!! Great food with a friendly environment & the best part is it's cheap too!!

Fast service. Friendly service. Just wasn't my favorite hamburger. Other would give 5 stars.

Fish and Chips was good but fish were the size of small goldfish a little smaller they would be little Neon Tettras.

Though not the place where Allen and Wright (no relation) first set up shop, it was established early on in a&w restaurants history. There is an impressive collection of a&w memorabilia on display and the dining room, and the restaurant once made its own root beer. The food was enjoyable and tasted very good and the service was friendly and efficient.

A&W is always great, especially if you love soft serve and root beer. This one is extra charming with all the history and the cruise nights. Fantastic service, good food, fun stuff always on the TVs. Easily our favorite fast food atmosphere.

Waited 12 minutes in drive threw and no one ever came out once

Great experience! Staff is friendly and fun. Very accommodating.

Love A&W double Papa Burger, root beer float and cheese curds.

L the birthplace of five the Guinness book of world records was here in Lodi the biggest root beer float part of

The original! Good and filling, great prices. Rootbeer floats are the best.

The first store in California. The best rootbeer floats.

Love it, great Burger, fries and real root beer in a mug. Enjoyed looking back at how far A W has come.

SO great!! Friendly staff, hot, fresh food and a terrific nostalgic atmosphere. Whatever you're craving, it's here. Heck, you'll probably find some new favorites too!

Great service, clean, well priced and car shows most Thursdays

Good food and the nostalgia is great. Miss Mama and teen bergers though.

Love the Mushroom Onion Melt with an icy mug of root beer!

The best a&w around, the bacon is always crispy and the bun is always fresh. Love this a&w.

Pretty good fast food! 3 piece chicken meal is the best. Taste is real, breading was right and service was fast and easy

BOGO Papa burger Tuesdays! Come early or be patient.

Great place to visit for hamburgers and Root Beer Floats!

The establishment was clean and the employees were very polite. Our orders were complete in a timely manner.

Love A&W! This original location is great! Lots of memorabilia and the food is terrific. They serve the root beer floats in big, frosty mugs and they're so delicious. Long live A&W!

It s too bad that I m going to give this review a poor rating this was the third time My client and I chose to eat there the first time we didn t get a full order second time you would ve thought we learn from the first time. Again Didn t get the full order the third time and will be the last time we ordered the fish basket theColeslaw in both containers tasted sour had to Be tossed out ( forks were missing )I don t know if you re like me when you get home from work you just want to sit down and eat I didn t want to turn around and go back I tried to call them it kept going to answering machine Thanks but no thanks A&W...