After more than six months of collaboration, A&W will become the first national restaurant to serve French’s Tomato Ketchup and Classic Yellow Mustard in all all its restaurants across Canada.
This is part of a continued commitment by A&W to providing guests with great-tasting food, farmed with care. Both the ketchup and mustard are made without preservatives or artificial flavours and colours, and contain 100 per cent Canadian tomatoes and 100 per cent Canadian mustard seeds.
The transition to French’s Tomato Ketchup and Classic Yellow Mustard is already underway and A&W guests across Canada will be able to enjoy the new toppings on all their favourite menu items starting in April.
As a 100 per cent Canadian-owned and operated company, A&W uses locally-sourced tomatoes from Leamington, Ont. and mustard seeds from Saskatchewan in all of its ketchup and mustard, including in its kitchens, dining areas and take-out orders. The tomatoes and mustard seeds are grown by second and third generation farmers with the expertise to produce the finest crops that are perfect for ketchup and mustard. What’s more, all of A&W’s Ketchup is produced and packaged in Ontario.
“At A&W, we’re always looking to partner with Canadian suppliers and farmers who are producing natural ingredients,” said Susan Senecal, president and chief operating officer of A&W Food Services of Canada Inc.
“The tomato farmers in Leamington and mustard seed farmers in Saskatchewan work hard to produce the best quality ingredients for French’s, and we are proud to add these locally-sourced products to the menu at all of our Canadian restaurants, including our restaurant in Leamington.”
“French’s and A&W are committed to the same values, including great taste, real ingredients and added social responsibility. This is a natural relationship for us,” says Elliott Penner, president, The French’s Food Company.
“We have been working with A&W for more than six months to bring this partnership to life, and are excited for such an iconic Canadian company to become the first national restaurant to serve French’s ketchup and mustard.”
A&W has changed the face of fast food since launching its Ingredients Guarantee in 2013. The A&W Ingredients Guarantee is rooted in the simple philosophy that good food makes good food.
Since introducing the Ingredients Guarantee, A&W has become the first and only national quick service restaurant to serve beef raised without the use of hormones or steroids, chicken raised without the use of antibiotics, eggs from hens fed a diet without animal by-products and antibiotics and bacon from pork raised without the use of antibiotics. A&W is also the only national QSR to exclusively offer its guests organic, Fair Trade coffee.
To learn more about the A&W Ingredients Guarantee, residents can visit www.awguarantee.ca.
