Topics: Food Service

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

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

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

7 Ways Truckstops and Travel Plazas Get Creative to Capture Grab-and-Go and Self-Serve Food Sales

7 Ways Truckstops and Travel Plazas Get Creative to Capture Grab-and-Go and Self-Serve Food Sales Members Only Join or Login

COVID-19 has changed restaurant and food sales, and companies had to quickly adjust. Those offering self-serve food options have had to pivot in many areas of the country depending on state and local ordinances. More

Increase Customer Frequency, Drive Transactions and Boost Loyalty with Mobile App- and Web-Based Ordering

Increase Customer Frequency, Drive Transactions and Boost Loyalty with Mobile App- and Web-Based Ordering

When Northland Properties, which operates Denny’s restaurants in Canada, launched its web ordering platform with Smooth Commerce, it saw a significant growth in revenue within 30 days. “We were very pleased with the amount of lift we saw during such a short time,” said Manoj Jasra, chief digital officer and chief marketing officer for the company. More

Convenience Retailing During the Pandemic with the Hosts of the In-Convenience Podcast

Convenience Retailing During the Pandemic with the Hosts of the In-Convenience Podcast

The hosts of the In-Convenience Podcast joined NATSO's podcast to talk about what they think is working and not working for c-stores, retailers and truckstops during the pandemic. More

NATSO Offering Mobile App and Web Ordering Webinar

NATSO Offering Mobile App and Web Ordering Webinar

Join Smooth Commerce, a leading branded mobile app and web ordering provider, for a webinar on Thursday, July 16 at 1 p.m eastern to learn about this critical business offering.  More

Donna’s Truck Stop Offers Insight and Great Ideas on Offering Uber Eats

Donna’s Truck Stop Offers Insight and Great Ideas on Offering Uber Eats

With dine-in options limited due to COVID-19, Donna's Truck Stop in Marysville, Washington, recently partnered with Uber Eats and saw strong results. More

Trend to Watch: Fresh Offerings Add Up to Big Success at Your Truckstop

Trend to Watch: Fresh Offerings Add Up to Big Success at Your Truckstop

Those truckstop and travel center operators who have embraced food as part of their conversion rate, experience and store environment improvement plan are really knocking it out of the park. More

Check Out the Exceptional Offerings at The Thumb in Arizona

Check Out the Exceptional Offerings at The Thumb in Arizona

During a visit to Scottsdale, Arizona, a friend told me we had to have to lunch at The Thumb. She raved about the barbecue, then she added with a smile, “It is a gas station.” Although the sign at The Thumb says it is “just your average gas station,” the location is anything but average. More

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