Roots cut
A&W Root Beer, once a prominent fast food option in the valley, will be shrinking to a single outlet.
Lithia Motors will be taking over a defunct strip mall on the southeast corner of Plumb and Kietzke lanes and will be ejecting the A&W that is on a stand-alone pad in the parking lot. That will leave only an A&W on Baring Boulevard in Sparks.
At one time, there were also A&Ws on the west side of Kietzke, on Prater Way in Sparks (now Scooper’s), and at Sutro, Montello and Oliver streets.