# Frostop

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American root beer brand

Frostop Frostop restaurant in Uptown New Orleans. Type Subsidiary Industry Soft drink Restaurants Genre Fast Food Soft drink Founded 1926 Founder L.S. Harvey Headquarters Columbus, Ohio, U.S. Number of locations 13 drive-ins Products Soft drinks, Fast food Parent FBG Bottling Group, LLC Website frostop drive-in.com

**Frostop** is the name of an American [root beer](/source/Root_beer) brand and chain of [fast food](/source/Fast_food) drive-in restaurants. The restaurants are known for their rotating oversized root beer mugs used as outdoor signage.

## History

The first Frostop root beer stand was opened in 1926 in [Springfield, Ohio](/source/Springfield%2C_Ohio) by L.S. Harvey. A chain of franchise locations was established, with the biggest growth following World War II.[1][2] The Frostop drive-ins reached their peak in 1958 with locations concentrated mostly in the [American midwest](/source/Midwestern_United_States) and deep south, but found from [New York](/source/New_York_(state)) and [Florida](/source/Florida) to [California](/source/California) and [Washington](/source/Washington_(U.S._state)) state.[3]

## Today

Frostop brand products—[Root Beer](/source/Root_Beer), [Sarsaparilla](/source/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)), Red [Birch Beer](/source/Birch_Beer), Orange Cream, [Black Cherry](/source/Prunus_serotina), and a [Vanilla Caramel Cream](/source/Cr%C3%A8me_br%C3%BBl%C3%A9e) soda—are still available in supermarkets and convenience stores in [Arkansas](/source/Arkansas), [California](/source/California), [Colorado](/source/Colorado), [Illinois](/source/Illinois), [Iowa](/source/Iowa), [Idaho](/source/Idaho), [Indiana](/source/Indiana), [Louisiana](/source/Louisiana), [Michigan](/source/Michigan), [Minnesota](/source/Minnesota), [Mississippi](/source/Mississippi), [Missouri](/source/Missouri), [Nebraska](/source/Nebraska), [Nevada](/source/Nevada), [Ohio](/source/Ohio), [Oregon](/source/Oregon), [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania), [Tennessee](/source/Tennessee), [Utah](/source/Utah), [Washington](/source/Washington_(U.S._state)), [West Virginia](/source/West_Virginia) and [Wisconsin](/source/Wisconsin). Although not as numerous as they were in the 1950s and 1960s, Frostop drive-in franchises can still be found scattered across America.[4]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-history_1-0)** ["The Drive In"](https://frostop.com/drive-in). *Frostop*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210115154801/https://frostop.com/drive-in) from the original on 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2021-01-20.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Frostop...Nothing Tops It But The Foam!®"](https://web.archive.org/web/20101217064046/http://frostop.com/text/history.html). *frostop.com*. Archived from [the original](http://www.frostop.com/text/history.html) on December 17, 2010.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Frostop...Nothing Tops It but the Foam!®"](http://www.frostop.com/text/availability.html). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110126212239/http://www.frostop.com/text/availability.html) from the original on 2011-01-26. Retrieved 2011-02-06.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["The Drive in"](https://frostop.com/drive-in). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20230601165958/https://frostop.com/drive-in) from the original on 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2023-07-13.

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Frostop](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Frostop).

- [frostoprootbeer.com](http://www.frostoprootbeer.com) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150801135126/http://frostoprootbeer.com/) 2015-08-01 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

- ["Sock Hop Soda Shop"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150607181453/http://www.sockhopsodashop.com/). Archived from [the original](http://www.sockhopsodashop.com) on 2015-06-07.

- [Frostop Root Beer](http://www.frostop.com)

- [The LaPlace Frostop Est. 1958 Home of the Lot-O-Burger & Frosty Mug Root Beer](http://www.laplace-frostop.com/)

- ["Frostop Drive Inn"](https://web.archive.org/web/20061105001345/http://www.hollyeats.com/Frostop.htm). Archived from [the original](http://www.hollyeats.com/Frostop.htm) on 2006-11-05., one of the remaining drive-in restaurants

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