A&W Canada — Restaurant in Winnipeg

It is always a struggle to rate fast food. I try to avoid them as much as possible, I'm already overweight and really should not be eating hamburgers. But my wife and I were interested by the new A&W veggie burger. Since we had a coupon and we're going out anyway we decided to try a little scientific comparison.

We got 1 each of a mama burger, a veggie burger, fries and onion rings. We both had Root Beer to drink.

Despite their irritating ads, I still think they have the best Root beer and the teen burger is still the best generic style burger you can get. But we wanted to compare apples to apples, so we figured the Mama burger was the closest in size, condiments and general content. We split every thing and compared the two burgers for taste, mouth feel, consistency, looks and general effect. I must say that I am pleasantly impressed. The burger lives up to its hype. It was different in the side by side with a meat patty but not "oh it's a veggie", just slightly different. Pleasant flavour, good texture, and all in all a really nice burger. It went well with either fries or onion rings (well, of course I guess) and I would cheerfully chow down on another one if it were a bit cheaper. I also have not checked the fat, sodium, trans etc content which will have an effect on how often I would even consider eating them, but a really nice treat that you can take your non-meat...

Ordered 2 teen burgers without cheese through the drive thru. Order took about 15 minutes, only car in drive thru. When I received it, it was very evident that they had just picked the cheese of the patties, as there was melted cheese all along the edges. Went back through, said they had cheese on them, they apologized and I was told they'd have 2 more out shortly. Another 15 minutes later I received the 2 new burgers, promptly checked them in drive thru, couldn't see cheese and went home.

Upon further inspection when we sat down to eat, the new order's patties had dried/crusted melted cheese on them... So way to go guys, you did a better job scraping the cheese off the edges...but really?! How hard is it to just NOT put cheese on a burger?!?!

This is 100% unacceptable!! Whether you think it's not a big deal or not, I have a dairy allergy, so kind of a big deal! Will definitely not be going back to this location. Half hour wasted in the drive thru, all for food I still couldn't eat......

Terrible service. Came through the drivethru and placed order at 8:22pm Monday, August 22, 2022. My order was 5 buddies burgers with cheese and an order of onion rings. Not a big deal. I was told at the drivethru window to wait out front. Great no problem, my order will be freshly made I figure. After about 8 minutes of waiting 2 more cars pulled up and are waiting as well. Another car pulls up and a guy gets out. Walks in AW and comes out within minutes with his order. At 8:36 a tall slim employee with a head set on comes out but heads to the last car that arrived. This is fine seeing as it was closest to the door. I could over hear the order was wrong and the carwas told to go through the drivethru again. Finally he comes to my vehicle at 8:38. I said the wait was kinda long in a very polite manner. He replys by throwing his head back, laughing and says "yaya"....