Topics: Food

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

Sprint Mart’s New Travel Center Is Extra Special

Sprint Mart’s New Travel Center Is Extra Special

Sprint Mart opened a new 16,000-square-foot travel center in Vance, Alabama this year. Herb Hargraves, Sprint Mart's chief operating officer, joined Amy Toner, executive director of the NATSO Foundation, on the podcast to share the great things happening at the new Sprint Mart. It boasts a 150-seat diner, a huge bakery, its proprietary grab-and-go fried chicken and catfish program Chix and 15 cooler doors. Its forecourt includes 12 gasoline pumps and five diesel lanes. 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

NATSO Foundation Podcast Explores Opportunities at Travel Centers To Grow Wallet Share From Professional Drivers

NATSO Foundation Podcast Explores Opportunities at Travel Centers To Grow Wallet Share From Professional Drivers

To help operators understand recent research on professional drivers and what it means for the industry, the NATSO Foundation created the Opportunities Abound at Travel Centers to Serve Professional Drivers and Grow Wallet Share Toolkit. Christine Schoessler, COO of NATSO and Amy Toner, Executive Director of the NATSO Foundation, discuss the survey results on the foundation's podcast. More

Key Findings in New Study of Professional Driver Behavior at Truck Stops and Travel Centers

Key Findings in New Study of Professional Driver Behavior at Truck Stops and Travel Centers

Gather the key findings on how often professional drivers fuel, rest and shop at travel centers during their work week, what brings them inside and their expectations around wait times, employee interaction, and food and loyalty preferences. More

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Kitchen Innovation are Automating Tasks and Maximizing Labor for Travel Centers

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Kitchen Innovation are Automating Tasks and Maximizing Labor for Travel Centers

Automation and digitization are changing nearly every industry, including truckstops, travel plazas and convenience stores. New technology is helping companies automate tasks and re-direct labor to responsibilities that directly benefit customers. 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

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

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