1190 South 1st Street, Bennett CO 80102
“I really enjoy coming to this store. The only thing that is absolutely horrible are the cheap lids that don't even stay on your cups. If I were you I would just bring your own cup with a lid.”
1191 South 1st Street, Bennett CO 80102
“This is a great truck stop to stay at overall. We stayed nearly 3 days over a holiday weekend. It has a very large parking lot; arrived on a busy Saturday afternoon and were still able to get a good parking spot close to the store. The staff was all very friendly and helpful, made us feel welcome. I wish the bathrooms had been a bit larger; only 4 stalls in the women’s room; not enough for a super busy location with a lot of parking, and it only appeared to have been cleaned about twice the whole time I was there. Still adequately clean, nothing disgusting. Just not a big and sparkling clean as most Love’s locations I’d been to. 3 washers and dryers in the laundry room, plenty of chairs in there too. 7 showers; since it was a busy holiday weekend there was a near constant wait for showers. We got in the shower queue around 12:45 pm and there was about 10 people in front of us. It took us an hour and 20 minutes to get our showers, which was right within the 60-90 min estimate. By the time we got our showers there were 15 people in line behind us. You could tell the employees were working hard to clean them quickly though; they were calling out showers every 10-15 minutes as soon as they were available. I would avoid the Chester’s chicken; the chicken and potato wedges sit under the heat lamp for hours at a time and are all dried out and rarely fresh. The McDonald’s was great; will leave a separate review for them. Would recommend this Love’s location and stay again.”
The Iowa retailer, the third-largest convenience store operator in the country, built its new three-year plan around three priorities: store growth, food and beverage expansion, and kitchen technology upgrades. The company plans to add 120 stores during the current fiscal year. Its previous plan, launched in 2023, delivered more than 500 new stores and earned the company a spot in the S&P 500.
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