A & W Restaurant

High priced bar food, decent ambience, not my kind of thing. But if u just want to watch a game, it’s great.

It seems like lately every time I even think of fast food, the good old belt line has to be increased by a notch. Sure its part of getting older, but so is the knowledge that fast food isn’t something we should be eating right? Well who can resist once in a while? Not this guy
A&W in Fishkill is tossed together with KFC — a lethal combination as you can order from either end at the same time. When I feel up for a guilty pleasure I’ll stop in here and order some KFC crispy fried chicken, biscuits (you have to get a biscuit or they may be something wrong with you), and a side of corn dog nuggets (bite size corn dogs… Go ahead and judge, I’m still going to eat em).
This place tends to get pretty crowded as there are a number of hotels nearby and a Walmart, but they tend to handle the crowds well for the most part (I’ve often waited long enough to start to question my food choices and start to feel guilty.). Overall worth checking out if you’re up for some KFC and want to add on a nice root beer to boot

I usually don’t write reviews for fast food restaurants, but this one was particularly good. 1^st stop, the bathroom which was clean. My wife ordered a double cheeseburger combo which was very good and I ordered a chicken finger combo from the KFC which was very good as well. We’ll worth a stop if you are in the area and want fast food.
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They make and sell good burgers and hotdogs at a fair price. I would stay away from the KFC section only because you can get KFC pretty much anywhere else in the Dutchess County. They also make good root beer floats and their fries and cookies are pretty good. The seating area can be nice and clean if they aren’t busy with customers or if they didn’t get any customers that don’t pick up after themselves. A good place to go if you want to have decent burger while I would give the pass on McDonald’s and the diner near by.

Came here late one night with my daughter who was begging for Chicken Nuggets. I ordered her what I thought were going to be nuggets but they were really little poppers and loaded with pepper. It was so spicy she refused to eat them — tried them myself (I can handle spicy food and my mouth was on fire.) Not cool offering this to little kids!

What a great idea, A&W with a KFC. It’s clean and the service is quick for a semi sit down fast food joint.

Who says fast food restaurants have to be dirty, dingy places? Increasingly it seems this way today, but fortunately some franchisees and their store managers buck the trend.
A&Ws are increasingly rare. Yum! Brands tried to reintroduce them to America in the 2000s, but that attempt mostly failed and the A&W sections of many if not most co-​branded locations have disappeared over the last few years. Furthermore, Yum! sold A&W and Long John Silver’s off because they didn’t want to deal with them anymore.
In other words, if you come to this co-​branded A&W /​KFC, you better not get the later. KFCs are everywhere. You might as well enjoy the old-​fashion slice of Americana that is A&W, with their burgers, hot dogs, and root beer.
This location was by far the cleanest and brightest fast food restaurant that I have visited in years. There were even some awards hanging by the register that seem to suggest my experience was not a fluke.
For a mere $ 5-​something, I received a bacon cheeseburger, medium fries, and a medium drink. That’s quite the value these days. Placing my order went quickly and the staff was very friendly.
It seems the frosted mugs may have been phased out at this location. I’m not sure if that’s a location-​specific thing or if it has something to do with the chain’s struggles. This didn’t really affect my experience, however.
Root beer is still tapped next to the soda fountain from a weird contraption that combines a tap handle-​esque lever for the regular version and a standard-​issue modern push lever for the diet version. Maybe I’ve gotten so used to diet soda, but I thought the diet root beer tasted delicious. Since the fountain on the customer side (the way it should be!) I went back for a refill.
After filling up my soda I started to have some concerns. Where is the ketchup? Where are the napkins? Is this going to be one of those terrible fast food locations where they give me two packets of ketchup and I have to also ask for a napkin or two?
I quickly discovered that all was well. The tables actually have ketchup bottles on them, something I don’t think I’ve seen at a fast food restaurant in at least a decade, if ever. My table also came equipped with a napkin dispenser, salt, pepper, and artificial flowers with colorful glass beads in the vase. This is absolutely stellar for the fast food industry today.
The dining space itself had tons of light from windows on three sides, and even had TVs showing baseball on ESPN. Again, I can’t recall ever seeing this at a fast food restaurant before. My phone also connected to free AT&T wi-​fi — not sure if that’s for everyone or just AT&T customers, but either way, not a bad offering to have.
It’s sad that A&W is so rare these days, as the experience I had should be the norm for fast food.

Ahh! The smells of fresh A&W root beer abound, as you enter this shop! Although prices are moderate, lines for their products are never very long.
And root beer, although the most requested item, isn’t the only thing they sell. They do sell other types of sodas as well as burger food and fries.
As in the olden days, you serve yourself the root beer out of old style pull-​handled jugs. They have both regular and diet root beers, so be careful to pick the correct one.
Employees, although sparse, do an excellent job of keeping the floor clean, in case of spillage. But be careful. As for the trays, they try to keep the tray amounts to a minimum!
Very few shops still operate root beer of the consistent they do than this A&W shop only. That’s a major turn on, and you will surely get me as a return customer when I’m down in the southern Dutchess area. I was almost at your business again about a week ago, I was thinking about your business, but another medical reason brought me to another nearby business shop nearby, and the fact I was in the wrong lane of traffic on a rainy evening a few says before hurricane Irene made landfall. Please realize the thought was there. Thank you.