QSRweb Podcast

A&W is sprouting up a plant-based burger, CEO says on QSRweb podcast

A&W's turnaround CEO Kevin Bazner goes one-on-one with QSRweb Editor Shelly Whitehead on today's podcast to break some news on the brand's rollout of the Beyond Burger, along with a slew of other new initiatives that prove this 100-year-old brand is just getting started.

October 18, 2019

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Podcast Summary

With key ingredients like sarsaparilla root and birch bark, A&W's namesake root beer has to be one of the oldest — if not the oldest — plant-basedQSR beverage. It's only fitting then that today the more than 100-year-old chain that built its name on its unique take on that foamy drink, said it would make the plant-based Beyond Burger available as a menu item to all U.S operators by year's end.

But, that's just one of the interesting revelations QSRweb podcast listeners can hear more about in today's one-on-one with A&W CEO Kevin Bazner. The popular chief executive has performed quite a turnaround at the QSR over his past eight years back in the role after the chain's franchisee-owners returned him to the top spot when they bought A&W from Yum Brands in 2011. Since then, neither the franchisees nor Bazner has ever looked back.

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