Arby’s Roast Beef Sandwiches Recipe
Arby’s Roast Beef Sandwiches feature thinly sliced roast beef piled high on a toasted bun with your choice of toppings and sauces.
Make our Arby’s Roast Beef Sandwiches Recipe at home tonight for your family. With our Secret Restaurant Recipe your Roast Beef Sandwiches will taste just like Arby’s.
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Arby’s Roast Beef Sandwiches
What is that sign — Hat, side of beef or oven mitt? We’ll tell you in a moment. But first, a little background to explain…
The History of Arby’s
In 1949 a young fellow in Youngstown, Ohio named Forrest Raffel teamed up with his even younger brother named Leroy to buy out their uncle’s restaurant equipment business.
While working on designing and building other restaurants the brothers saw a need in the market for an upscale, non-hamburger fast food chain. They figured also that roasted beef sandwiches would a good thing to sell in their new restaurant.
For a name they took the first two letters of Raffel Brothers (RB) to and came up with Arby’s.
ADThe First Arby’s Roast Beef
The first Arby’s opened in 1964 in Boardman, Ohio. This first restaurant had a “chuckwagon-style” design with a natural wood and stone decor and a giant 10-gallon hat for a sign.
Yes, it is a hat. 😉
On the original menu was their roast beef sandwiches for 69 cents, potato chips and iced tea.
Arby’s was an almost immediate success despite charging quite a bit more than other fast food restaurants at the time and within a year of opening the brothers franchised their first operation.
Arby’s Today
Royal Crown Cola (RC) Company of Atlanta, Georgia, purchased the Arby’s business in 1976 and started expanding overseas with the first Arby’s opening in Tokyo in 1981.
Today, there are more than 3,400 Arby’s restaurants worldwide.
Arby’s Roast Beef Sandwiches
Arby's Roast Beef Sandwiches Recipe
Make our Arby's Roast Beef Sandwiches Recipe at home tonight for your family. With our Secret Restaurant Recipe your Roast Beef Sandwiches will taste just like Arby’s.
Ingredients
- 1 3 to 4 pound Roast Beef
- 1/2 cup Water
- 1/2 cup firmly packed Brown Sugar
- 1 envelope Onion Soup Mix
- 1 Onion chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon Garlic Powder or to taste
- Salt and freshly ground Black Pepper to taste
- 8 Onion Hamburger Buns or regular Hamburger Buns, if you prefer
Instructions
- Place roast in crock pot.
- Stir remaining ingredients (except the buns, of course) together and pour over roast.
- Cook for 8 - 10 hours on low, stirring occasionally.
- Pull apart or slice thin.
- Serve on buns.
Makes about 8 sandwiches
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March 19, 2014 @ 12:01 pm
Is the roast beef from the deli or like a chunk of it?
Gabrielle,
Hmmm… You’re right. We just assumed it was a nice big slab. So that’s what we cooked. We cooked it according to the directions above and then tried to slice it thin. It sorta fell apart and looked like pulled pork. It turned out pretty good that way and even though it didn’t look like the real thing it did taste like it. And the house smelled wonderful.
James
March 23, 2014 @ 1:34 pm
I used deli roast beef on the thicker side, maybe a 1 and a half, closer to a 2.. The second time I used a rump roast,that worked much better. The roast beef called for in the original recipe totally falls apart after the suggested time in the slow cooker. Instead of slices you get a pile of shredded and soggy beef, which I then turned into barbecue beef on a bun. You can also use a bottom round, that works well too. Other than that, it’s pretty decent.
Lynne,
Thank you for the notes.
James
April 3, 2014 @ 1:18 pm
Horsey sauce?? Love this stuff!!!
Vicki,
Thank you. So do we.
The recipe is here – https://secretcopycatrestaurantrecipes.com/arbys-horsey-sauce-recipe/ 🙂
Alton
July 16, 2014 @ 11:46 am
Do you cook the roast beef on high for 8-10 hours, or on low for 8-10 hours?
October 8, 2014 @ 1:23 am
there wouldn’t happen to be a copycat recipe for their ham melt sandwiches..would there? love their ham melt but the sandwich has gotten small but price is too much
July 12, 2015 @ 3:48 pm
One of the more expensive recipes I’ve made, first the money I spent on a barely edible dried out, overly sweet shredded roast, and then the money I spent going to Arby’s. It’s not even a particularly good roast recipe overall. This recipe should never allowed to masquerade as a copycat Arby’s recipe. I didn’t expect perfection but I at least expected a decent roast. Be warned.
January 7, 2017 @ 2:15 pm
What is the other sauce recipe not the horse one
June 9, 2017 @ 9:18 am
This does not even come close to Arby’s I did what the recipe called for,I cooked a 3 lb plus I even slow cooked for 9 hours it fell completely apart and was completely dried-out overcook did not taste at all like Arby’s .