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Posted on 05/11/2015 8:36:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The hottest new pizza places are convenience stores
Pizza chains these days are watching customers drive right by, then filling up on pizza when they fill up at the gas station.
Market research company the NPD Group says that the amount of pizza dough and crust shipped to convenience stores shot up by 27% in only a year. We’re collectively buying 20% more servings of pizza from these outlets than we were a year ago, while servings at traditional carry-out pizza chains are just treading water.
Convenience stores have ramped up their food offerings and gotten more aggressive at courting people outside their core customer base of young to middle-aged blue-collar men, says NPD Group restaurant industry analyst Bonnie Riggs.
“They’ve placed a lot of focus on food service and food ready for immediate consumption,” she says. “They’re competing directly with other fast food concepts now.”
Jeff Lenard, spokesman for NACS, the National Association of Convenience Stores, says fifth-biggest pizza seller in the country — behind Dominos, Pizza Hut, Papa John’s and Little Caesars, respectively — Casey’s General Stores, an Iowa-based convenience store chain.
According to NACS, convenience stores sold $40.6 billion worth of food prepared on-site, coffee and fountain drinks in 2014, an annual increase of around 10%. That’s roughly 20% of all sales, and prepared food makes up a growing percentage of the industry’s profits.
One way they’ve done this is by doubling down on the variety and quality of food they offer, Riggs says. Chains like Wawa and Sheetz are attracting millennials and women
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Who’s “we”? I won’t eat that crap. Maybe YOU would, Martha, you fat cow, but not me...I eat REAL pizza.
When I was a kid that best pizza I ever ate was at Smiling Sam's....on St. College Blvd..in Anaheim, CA.
Now....I'm still searching.....Umberto's pretty good here in T-Town...and Andolini’s Pizzeria..get's great reviews!!
Little Caesar’s but fresher.
never buy food that is not prepackaged at a gas station. I worked at an AM/PM years ago and the one thing I learned is that given a chance every food safety rule will be broaken because there big concern is selling gas.
Jalapenos, salsa, and "pico", whatever the heck that is, on a pizza?
See post 46
I tried a slice of quick trip’s pizza with ev everything...it was quite good.
Never had the pizza. Next time you’re in 7-11 get a quarter pound big bite...awesome hot dog.
Never had the pizza. Next time you’re in 7-11 get a quarter pound big bite...awesome hot dog.
I eat no pizza that calls its ingredients “topping.” Like sausage “topping.” or cheese “topping.”
“Topping” is a food industry way to say adulterated. Not able to stand up and meet the standards of being cheese or whatever.
Best pizza is where you watch real ingredients placed on top turn it into a good meal.
Yeah, we had a small station in my area called “Pump And Munch.” For some reason my wife would laugh hysterically every time she saw it.
Wanna makes the best coffee!
Sorry folk ... Autocorrect. WAWA is what it was supposed to refer to. It’s a Mid East coast convenience store.
Caseys used a little bit of that “tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”. Their motto became “Famous for our pizza”. I think they started saying that the day they started making it. NOW, they really are so it became true.
I love Wawa and Thornton’s. They have great food to go and we go to either on the weekends. Wawa is our favorite place to grab food. I heard my convenience store of my youth is now upscale - Cumberland Farms.
College students love 7-11 food. No idea why.
“purple drank”
Uhhh....I don’t think you know what that means
Mexican Pizza? That would be like Asians selling Tacos or Italians selling Korean. Best Pizza... Pepe’s or Sal’s.
Wawa is great...my boys love biking to it for hot chocolate and doughnuts.
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