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When you think of a fast food chain, the usual suspects come to mind: McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, KFC, Burger King. In recent years, the restaurant industry has changed to referring to fast food places as quick-service restaurants (QSR), and the new-ish hybrid of fast food and casual-dining restaurants (like Applebee's) is called fast casual. Where the definitions blur is with regional fast food chains, meaning a QSR that usually started out in a particular state as a mom-and-pop shop and gained a devoted following thus enabling them to grow. Sometimes it's a few stores that don't cross state lines. Other times,...

A Leesburg man was arrested after his pants fell down at Wawa. A Leesburg police officer was conducting a property check Thursday night on the Wawa gas station when he re-entered the men’s restroom and saw 57-year-old Rudolph J. McCray standing at the sink trying to pull his pants up. When McCray turned to look at the officer his pants fell from his waist down to his ankles. As this was occurring the officer saw a small clear baggie fall from his groin area. As the baggie landed at McCray’s feet the officer saw that it contained an off-white rock-like...

Customer Ken Lewandowski Describes The Rise In Crime & Says It's “Scary…Anywhere You Go Now”: A Wawa Is Shut After More Violence In Philadelphia (11/4/22)

Two Wawa stores in Philadelphia closed for good over the weekend, while other locations are shortening hours amid an uptick in crime. “We are very sorry we can’t be there for our friends and neighbors at these two locations, but we continue to serve the community from our other nearby stores and our commitment to the greater region remains strong,” Wawa said in a statement to FOX 29, regarding the locations at 12th and Market and 19th and Market. “Philadelphia is our hometown and that’s something that will never change.” Locations in Feasterville, a Philadelphia suburb, will be closed between...

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A group of violent Philadelphia ATV drivers was caught on video attacking police by throwing bricks and bottles at the officers before fleeing the scene, police said. The group unleashed its assault on police just one day after a Republican city councilman accused the administration of Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, of instructing officers "not to enforce the law." The Philadelphia Police Department shared video on Tuesday showing "a large group of people riding dirt bikes and ATV’s" around a gas station near Delaware Avenue and Spring Garden Street, police said. According to police, a dirt bike rider initially crashed...

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney reacted to the closure of two Wawa convenience stores struggling with crime by denying that the move is a “bad omen.” Wawa, which has locations in multiple states along the East Coast, announced on Thursday that the company would close two locations in Center City, the main business district in Philadelphia and home to City Hall. Both stores had been contracting private security services due to an increase in thefts.

Philadelphia Councilmember Mike Driscoll on Tuesday said a “senior” Wawa representative told him the company was considering excluding Philadelphia from its expansion plans because of crime concerns, the Philadelphia Business Journal reported. During a forum hosted by the Philadelphia Real Estate Alliance, Driscoll said he met with Wawa representatives the day after a store in Mayfair, which is in his district, was ransacked by an estimated 100 juveniles. “The scariest part to me is one of the senior officials said, ‘We’re seriously considering moving out of the city of Philadelphia in our strategic planning, at least not to expand,’” Driscoll...

Wawa, a beloved Philadelphia-area convenience store, might nix plans to expand in the city after one location was ransacked by dozens of looters last month, according to a Philadelphia councilman. “They’ve had to invest in security, and those of you that have these office buildings [know that] security doesn’t add anything to your bottom line, it takes away from your bottom line. But without it, then you’re in deep trouble. So they are spending money, they’re losing money,” Philadelphia Democratic Councilmember Mike Driscoll said Tuesday at a town hall-style forum hosted by the Philadelphia Real Estate Alliance. “The scariest part...

Republican Pennsylvania Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz says his "diagnosis" to the rising crime plaguing his state places blame squarely on his "radical" Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, for creating the conditions for criminal activity to prosper. In an interview this week with Fox News Digital, Oz asserted that instances of violent crime, as well as events like the ransacking of a Wawa gas station by a mob of people over the weekend, were now "normalized," and described such occurrences as a "cancer" to society. "We've normalized thoughtless, destructive criminal acts. The question you ask in the morning is...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Philadelphia Police Union endorsed Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate on Monday. The announcement was made Monday morning at the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5. Oz joined the group for the announcement. FOP President John McNesby said, "People in Philadelphia are going through an unprecedented crime wave." He said Oz stands for safer streets.

A group of about 100 people ransacked a Wawa convenience store in Northeast Philadelphia on Saturday night, and the crimes were recorded and posted on social media, police said. Philadelphia Police say they’re reviewing the video of "juveniles" breaking and stealing items inside the store on Roosevelt Boulevard at Tyson Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The mob of juveniles caused thousands of dollars’ worth of damage of to the Mayfair Wawa, according to PPD. Responding officers were able to disperse the teens, police said. No injuries were reported. As of Sunday night, tens of thousands of people had watched and...

Dozens of rampaging youths trashed a Wawa convenience store in northeast Philadelphia Saturday night — hurling food and drinks at one another as one belligerent young woman twerked on a counter, video of the chaos shows. The rowdy group of about 100 young people were captured on video — shot inside the chain location at 7001 Roosevelt Blvd. — as they ransacked the shop at about 8:20 p.m. and recorded the pandemonium on their phones. An employee filming the wild scene from behind a sandwich counter in the store can be heard scolding the vandals. “You’re all stupid,” he said...

A group ransacked a Wawa in Philadelphia's Mayfair section on Saturday night. The store is located on Roosevelt Boulevard at Tyson Avenue. *** A group ransacked a Wawa in Philadelphia's Mayfair section on Saturday night. The store is located on Roosevelt Boulevard at Tyson Avenue. [Video at link]

On Sunday night, a gang of juveniles wreaked havoc by brazenly looting and destroying the Wawa Food Market in Northeast Philadephia’s Mayfair section. In a now-viral video posted by Tara Nicole on Facebook, the mob can be heard cheering as they deliberately destroyed the food market and looted. One woman urged a Wawa employee to stop recording so that he could prepare her sandwich as the store was being ransacked.

The battle of Sheetz versus Wawa in the Midstate (PA) continues and it is not going anywhere anytime soon as Wawa announces plans of doubling its store count in Central Pennsylvania over the next three to five years. According to the store’s press release, the plan is to expand its footprint along the Susquehanna River, with its first store opening as early as 2024. There is even a potential for up to 40 additional stores in Midstate counties over the next few years. Get daily news, weather, breaking news and alerts straight to your inbox! Sign up for the abc27...

Police are investigating a stabbing inside a West Mount Airy Wawa. They say it started because of a disgruntled customer. It happened at the store located on the 7200 block of Germantown Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Police say an employee was unpacking boxes when a male customer began yelling and then punched and choked the employee because he wasn’t being served. When the man tried to go around the counter with a knife, investigators say the employee pulled out his own knife, stabbing the suspect. “That’s crazy, especially when you coming to work the normal shift and you have...

Tease that hair and get out those leg warmers because Wawa stores are being transported to the 1980s. Not just any ’80s — “The Goldbergs” ’80s. The convenience store is a regular presence in the ABC comedy series, which is set in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania in the decade of Teddy Ruxpin, Cabbage Patch Kids, the Brat Pack and “Alf.” In celebration of Wawa Week, marking the 57th anniversary of Wawa’s entry to the retail business, the chain is running a “Goldbergs” promotion. The real-life Wawa in Jenkintown is getting an ’80s makeover, while Wawas in New Jersey and across the country...

It's been less than two weeks since Miami-Dade County announced it would be fining people for not wearing masks in public. Already, Florida media outlets are filled with stories of people cited for wearing masks improperly, lowering masks to sip a drink, or removing their face coverings once outside of a store. On Thursday, the Miami Herald reported that the Miami-Dade Police Department has issued 162 citations for violating the county's mandatory mask ordinance, which comes with a $100 penalty. One woman, Johanna Gianni, says she removed her mask in the parking lot of a Publix grocery store in North...

Gulftainer is a Middle-Eastern based ports management company that operates Delaware’s Port of Wilmington. The Obama administration brought Gulftainer into the United States with its first lease at Florida’s Port Canaveral, bypassing the required CFIUS National Security Threat Analysis. Gulftainer illegally blocked Wawa from its fuel supplies at the tank farm adjacent to the Port of Wilmington. Wawa is a Pennsylvania-based chain of convenience store gas stations with nearly 900 locations on the East Coast of the United States. Gulftainer attempted to extort $1 million in “fees” in exchange for allowing the Wawa tanker trucks to access their own fuel...