A&W Restaurants is celebrating National Root Beer Float Day today by giving away free root beer floats to customers while asking them to donate toward the Wounded Warrior Project, according to a press release from the company.
A&W has a location in Hollister at 203 South St. Visitors are encouraged to make a donation to the nonprofit Wounded Warrior Project.
According to a statement from the company: Anyone entering a participating A&W restaurant across the nation between 2 p.m. and closing time will receive one small root beer float free of charge upon request. In return, they will be asked to make a donation to WWP. Donors will be able to give directly at participating restaurants or online.
It goes on to note that more than 50,000 servicemen and women have been injured in the recent military conflicts and that 400,000 service members live with the “invisible wounds of war.”
