Topics: Food & Tobacco

Food Offerings Are a Key Differentiator for Travel Centers in 2024

Food Offerings Are a Key Differentiator for Travel Centers in 2024

Food offerings are a key differentiator that can make truck stops and travel centers standout from the competition and bring drivers inside. Jessica Williams, CEO of Food Forward Thinking, said professional drivers get tired of the same old thing, and she is seeing more and more locations add non-traditional quick-service and fast-casual franchises and licenses to help their businesses stand out. More

Keep Food Offerings Interesting at Your Travel Center with an Innovation Calendar

Keep Food Offerings Interesting at Your Travel Center with an Innovation Calendar

Innovation plays an important role in driving sales of retailers’ core offerings, and keeping food offerings fresh and exciting can help make a location a destination and bring customers inside. Jessica Williams, CEO of Food Forward Thinking, recommends operators make a conscious effort to find new, creative offerings and roll them out throughout the year. "I have an innovation calendar for all the people I work with,” she said. More

Grow Wallet Share with the Right Food Offerings at Your Travel Center Video

Grow Wallet Share with the Right Food Offerings at Your Travel Center Video

Jessica Williams, founder and CEO of Food Forward Thinking, is an expert in menu planning for travel centers. She led a webinar, sharing her expertise on how to better capitalize on the untapped potential in food and beverage sales. More

Sprint Mart’s Newest Location Creates a Welcoming Destination for Drivers

Sprint Mart’s Newest Location Creates a Welcoming Destination for Drivers

Sprint Mart has opened a new, state-of-the-art location in Vance, Alabama. The site features a 16,000-square-foot property built in a V-shaped format. One side of the V houses a 150-seat restaurant, Sadie’s Diner, while the other half is a traditional Sprint Mart convenience store. “This is the biggest of the biggest that we've ever built before,” said Herb Hargraves, chief operating officer for Sprint Mart. More

Grow Wallet Share With the Right Food Offerings at Your Travel Center

Grow Wallet Share With the Right Food Offerings at Your Travel Center

Jessica Williams, founder and CEO of Food Forward Thinking, joins the podcast to walk listeners through menu planning for travel centers. She offers advice on: What is usually missing at a travel center that drivers seek? What should travel centers think about when planning their food offerings? What food trends are “trending” right now? More

Some Truckstop And Travel Centers Continue To Have Success With Food Delivery Options

Some Truckstop And Travel Centers Continue To Have Success With Food Delivery Options

Food delivery surged during the pandemic, and several truckstop and travel plazas continue to have success with food delivery options. More

Operators Come Together at NATSO Connect’s Find and Dine Reception

Operators Come Together at NATSO Connect’s Find and Dine Reception

NATSO’s Find and Dine kick-off reception brought together travel center owners and operators and industry suppliers while highlighting several food concepts. More

Port Fuel Center's Grand Opening Blew Me Away

Port Fuel Center's Grand Opening Blew Me Away

Port Fuel Center in Port Wentworth, Georgia, is loaded with technology geared toward speed including augmented checkout counters, kiosk ordering and displays that monitor traffic at the port. The truckstop also offers parking for 80, ten diesel lanes, a CNG facility, a four-bay truck repair shop and a quick-serve food service option. More

10 Creative Solutions Travel Centers are Using to Overcome Inventory Challenges

10 Creative Solutions Travel Centers are Using to Overcome Inventory Challenges Members Only Join or Login

Supply chain issues and labor challenges continue, making it harder for truckstop and travel plaza operators to ensure they have the right products in the right place at the right time and pushing inventory management to the forefront. Operators have embraced several strategies to keep shelves stocked, including building safety stock, finding non-traditional suppliers and shifting SKUs. More

Pilot Company to Launch Site For Roboburger Vending

Pilot Company to Launch Site For Roboburger Vending

The RoboBurger equipment is a fully autonomous robotic burger chef in a vending machine. More

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