A large travel center chain announced exciting updates to its full-service restaurant business. Chef Maira Isabel now serves as the chain’s corporate executive chef and will focus on adding flavorful, healthy offerings and integrating food trends and regional specialties into the menus of two of the chain’s restaurants. TravelCenters of America Inc. (TA), nationwide operator…
Quality Dairy Launches Online SNAP/EBT Services
Quality Dairy has launched online SNAP (food stamps) payments at all 26 convenience stores across the Greater Lansing, Mich., area for on-demand home delivery and curbside pickup and is the only convenience store offering this feature in the Lansing, Mich., market. Customers may also purchase SNAP-ineligible items using traditional payment methods in the same order…
Casey’s Debuts New Pizza
Casey’s recently debuted its new limited-time-only (LTO) PEPPERONI PEPPERONI PEPPERONI pizza. The new pizza is made with three different types of pepperoni. Like all Casey’s pizzas, the PEPPERONI PEPPERONI PEPPERONI pizza starts with made-from-scratch dough that is topped with marinara sauce and real mozzarella cheese. The new pie is then covered with just the right…
Alimentation Couche-Tarde Completes Acquisition of Wilsons Network
Alimentation Couche-Tarde Inc. has completed the sale of 52 sites to Harnois Énergies as part of the agreement reached with the Competition Bureau in relation to Couche-Tard’s acquisition of the Wilsons network. The transaction now completes the acquisition of Cape D’Or Holdings Ltd., Barrington Terminals Ltd. and other related holding entities, which operate an independent…
EG Group Sells 26 Minit Mart Locations
Following EG Group’s announcement that it agreed to the sale and leaseback on a portfolio of its sites on the East Coast of the United States to Realty Income Corp., the company also plans to sell 26 non-core sites under the Minit Mart banner in the Group’s Central U.S. portfolio for total gross proceeds of…
Parker’s Launches Chewy’s Drink Club
Parker’s recently launched Chewy’s Drink Club, a new dispensed beverage subscription program that is available to Parker’s Rewards members for $6.99 per month. Chewy’s Drink Club subscribers can redeem one large fountain drink per day at any Parker’s or Parker’s Kitchen store throughout coastal Georgia and South Carolina. “In response to customer demand, we’ve launched Chewy’s…
Maverik to Debut New Adventure Coke Can
Maverik — Adventure’s First Stop has partnered with Coca-Cola to bring Maverik fans a limited-edition collector Coke can that celebrates the outdoors and honors Maverik’s adventurous spirit. The custom can bolsters Maverik’s “Happy Camper” grand sweepstakes presented by Swire Coca-Cola that will award one lucky winner a 2022 Mercedes Benz Sprinter Cargo van, $20,000 cash…
Green Zebra Grocery Closes
Portland-based Green Zebra announced that it is winding down operations after 10 years in business. All three Green Zebra stores will close on March 31. Since being founded in 2013, Green Zebra has sought to redefine what it means to be a convenience store in America. Instead of selling cigarettes, lottery tickets and jumbo-sized sugary…
Altria Makes Exchange With JUUL, Acquires NJOY
Altria Group Inc. has made two big announcements. The company has exchanged its entire minority economic investment in JUUL Labs and has agreed to acquire NJOY Holdings. Altria exchanged its minority stake in JUUL for a non-exclusive, irrevocable global license to certain of JUUL’s heated tobacco intellectual property. “We believe exchanging our JUUL ownership for…
EG Group Enters Sale, Leaseback of East Coast Assets for $1.5 Billion
EG Group agreed to the sale and leaseback on a portfolio of its sites on the U.S. East Coast to Realty Income Corp. for a gross consideration of approximately $1.5 billion. This portfolio — which EG America will continue to operate and trade — comprises 415 store assets under the Cumberland Farms, Fastrac, Tom Thumb…