For the under-informed, Buc-ees' stores are MASSIVE highway convenience stores, frequently found with 100 pumps and a retail store loaded with goodies! Formerly confined to Texas, they are expanding in the Southeast US.
I live a few miles from one. It is great
We drove through the southeast a couple years ago on a family trip. My kids thought that Loves was the best thing they had ever encountered. Then we got to Buc-ees. Oh. My. Goodness. It was highway rest-stop Nirvana. They still talk about it to this day.
There’s one opening soon here in Central Kentucky - they’re looking for workers now.
It’ll have 120 gas pumps!
Once it opens I’ll go just to have a look see.
It’s a bonus that the owners contribute to conservative leaders.
I stopped at one in Georgia today. The bathroom was incredible.
The only problem I have with Buccee’s is that on holiday weekends, the lines back off of the service road on to the interstate.
so a liberal is upset that Republican Texas has businesses that support Republicans?>
LMAO
please, for everyone sack lib, steer clear of the buc-ee’s leave it all to ME!!!!
That was a pathetic and poorly-written sixth grade level attempt at an attack. Laughable.
In 2008, Bankoff was hired to be CEO of SB Nation, a sports fan blogging site founded by liberal activists Tyler Bleszinski and Markos Moulitsas (founder of the left-wing political site Daily Kos) in 2003. Within two years, SB Nation was logging 8 million unique visitors and 40 million page views each month, and Bankoff had grown the site’s revenue’s fourfold. [4]
However, the company was criticized by many progressives for its employment policies: SB Nation bloggers were all independent contractors without health or other benefits, many making as little as $600 per month, and the company demanded that they write a minimum number of posts before they would be paid. These contributors, one writer noted, “put in long hours and receive only token sums for work against which Vox sells ads.” [5]
Vox Media was created in 2011 when SB Nation was merged with The Verge, a technology-focused website that had been founded by writers and editors from SB Nation. Bankoff became CEO of the newly formed company. [6] The company’s most prominent media brand, Vox.com, was founded by left-wing journalists and activists Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Melissa Bell in 2014. [7] Vox pioneered the “explaining the news” editorial model that has been criticized for presenting the writers’ personal opinions under the guise of neutral journalism, with even left-leaning critics saying its reporting is “almost a parody of liberal faux-neutrality”[8] and involves “characterizing its views as self-evident truths.”
https://www.influencewatch.org/person/jim-bankoff/
Cue Yogi Berra - no one goes there any longer, it's too crowded.
Almost everyone traveling between San Antonio and Houston stops at the Buc-ee’s in Luling. It is an OASIS!!
What a steaming pile.
This is why I can’t talk to liberals.
“ My disenchantment with the chain might also have something to do with the fact that founder Arch Aplin is a financial supporter of the some of the state’s most loathsome politicians. He’s given more than a million dollars to Gov. Greg Abbott, who signed the country’s most restrictive abortion ban into law in 2021, and donated to the campaign for Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is currently under indictment for alleged securities fraud. The donations sparked a minor controversy, with some Democrats vowing to boycott the chain, but the boycott never gained much traction.”
Oh, good grief. Grow up.
It appears that she is GenZ, “The Lost Generation”.
Yeah, well all the people stopping at Buc-ee’s don’t agree with her.
Okay, so it’s just a pro-abortion snowflake trying to start a boycott of Buc-ee’s. Whew, for a minute I thought they were closing down. I love Buc-ee’s!
Aww, poor baby!
Why is it appropriate to include all that political crap in an article in “Eatery”?
Snowflake author will really flip our when she checks out this new news:
https://babylonbee.com/news/texas-annexes-oklahoma-turns-entire-state-into-one-giant-buc-ees
OKLAHOMA—Texas has announced the unilateral annexation of Oklahoma. The entire state will be leveled and turned into one giant Buc-ee’s convenience store, according to sources within the Texas state government.
The move was made as part of an attempt to find a use for the state to the north of Texas, as it seemed to just be acres and acres of nothing worthwhile.
“There, that’s a far better use of these 7,000 useless square miles,” said Texas Governor Greg Abbott as bulldozers began demolishing the trailer parks, exotic cat zoos, and lame gas stations with fewer than 48 pumps that made up the state of Oklahoma. “Finally — weary travelers just passing through Oklahoma can experience fine refreshments, plenty of gas pumps, and extremely tasty snacks.”
Abbott then bit into a glazed pistachio. “Oh, man. This is to die for.”
You forgot to mention to mention the most important part. They have huge restrooms with at least 50 stalls each for men and women. They have so much restroom capacity that they can afford to have staff cleaning the restrooms full time and even encourage groups in busses to stop by. There is never a line to go to the restrooms at Buc-ee’s.