Long John Silver's | A&W — Restaurant in Wichita

The first restaurant was opened on August 18, 1969, in Lexington, Kentucky.1] The original location, on 301 Southland Drive just off Nicholasville Road, was previously a seafood carry out restaurant named the Cape Codder. The original Cape Codder concrete block building was redesigned by Architect Druce Henn, who created the New England style of LJS's early chain restaurants. That original location is now a styling salon.[2

Earlier restaurants were known for their Cape Cod style buildings, blue roofs with square cupolas, wood benches/tables, lobster pots, and ship's wheels. Later, more nautically themed decorations were added such as seats made to look like nautical flags.

Those early restaurants also featured separate entrance and exit doors, a corridor like waiting line area, deep fryer with food heaters that were transparent so customers could see the food waiting to be served, and wrought iron 'sword' door handles. A major exterior theme of these buildings had dock-like walkways lined with pilings and thick ropes. Somewhat newer restaurants retained the basic structural design and theme but eliminated most of the interior features.

In September 1999, A&W announced to acquire the chain out of bankruptcy, as a result a new company called Yorkshire Global Restaurants has been formed. In 2000, Yorkshire Global Restaurants agreed to test multi-branded locations with Louisville, Kentucky-based Tricon Global, owner of the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell chains.

The parent company of LJS and A&W, Yorkshire was acquired by Tricon Global and Tricon was renamed to Yum! Brands, Inc in 2002, but by January 2011 Yum! announced it was looking for a buyer for its Long John Silver’s and A&W All-American Restaurantsdivisions, citing poor sales and a desire to transfer more of its focus to international expansion.[4] In September 2011, Yum! announced the impending sale of Long John Silver's to LJS Partners LLC – a group consisting of franchisees and other private investors.[5]

In March 2015, James O'Reilly, who had previously worked for KFC (another Yum! Brands holding), was appointed as the CEO. He stated that he expected the chain to maintain its 1,132 stores, refocus its marketing following negative press about the fat and sodium content of the menu (see below), and looked to the possibility of future expansion.[6]

On May 22, 2018, Long John Silver's announced the acquisition of 76 franchised restaurants primarily owned by ServUS located primarily in Indiana, as well as renovating its...

So I ordered a southwest bowl with shrimp they gave me half a scoop of rice, 4 pieces of small shrimp and a half scoop of lettuce the bowl was bigger than what they give you of food damn not even try to pack the small bowl with rice or lettuce on top of that it cost me $ 10 dollars and when I asked for a scoop of rice they said it was extra its sad to say i asked the guy taking my order what does it come with he said he don't how you work somewhere and not know and not even ask someone what comes in the mini bowl so tell me i dont know you want it or not what Chipotle gives u more rice then that not only that but u can get as much vegetables as you want worst experience ever rather go to Chipotle and get a bowl they won't charge extra for rice or lettuce and top of that Chipotle bowl is twice and big and it's pack even if you only get chicken or whatever meat you want and only rice and lettuce and they still give you more on top of all that the bowl a&w sells in the menu looks packed in the picture and looks to have tomatoes hate to see wat a real bowl will cost to full to the top of there mini bowl if that's the case you might as well sell your bowl for $2.99 or $3 dollars flat no no taxes on because paying taxes on a mini bowl not worth it you get more food from a happy meal from mc Donald's then to buy a mini bowl from them still not worth it I wish i had my phone with me so u can see what i mean plus they rude...

I feel like it's a place that needs some work. Food was on point for them, cleanliness was under par but not terrible, service was okay with an interesting story.

A homeless individual, God bless him, had a meal bought for him and was super excited to have it. It was like a $3 item too, so nothing crazy. He makes his order and pays, then goes outside to wait, probably out of self-consciousness. The order comes up while he's out. This other patron sitting there asks about it like we don't know who's it is and I tell him it was that guy that stepped out. He'll be right back, we're sure.

Anyway, long story short, homeless guy comes back and his food is gone. The associate says she gave it to the guy that was asking about it because he said he'd give it to him. Nope, he straight just jacked a homeless guy's meal while I wasn't noticing. They did the right thing and remade it, but what an example of pure life.

Part of me was laughing and part of me was beside myself someone would just jack a homeless guy's food.

As for the store, giving someone's food to another customer? Yeah, they could have done better. At least they made up for it.

Oh, they also don't have malt vinegar anywhere to grab and don't offer it. You have to ask for the packets behind the counter.

Root beer tasted...