“Love this place! Just a mile down the street and their pizza and breadsticks are fire! I wish they had more food options though but other than that it's great!”
“The little dinner here seriously has amazing food! My parents reserved the place for our family Christmas party and everything we ordered wasn't just delicious, it was better than any chain restaurant I can think of. Their onion rings are out of this world amazing, the burger I got was freaking incredible! Their proportions of food is killer as well. Remember the days when you left feeling like you got what you paid for, well here you leave stuffed plus leftovers feeling like you got a steal. This place is so good it almost pains me to leave such a glowing review cuz I don't want it to be crazy crowded the next time I go... but at the end of the day, they deserve it. The owner even came out and made sure everything was good and everyone was happy. Uhh, heck yeah, we're not just happy, we're feeling spoiled at this point! EASILY the BEST restaurant in Owen county hands down. Being from the area I can even say to me it's easily the best place this side of Indiana, PERIOD!”
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.
Love's Travel Stops is starting 2025 with ambitious growth plans, adding 20 new stores and updating 50 current locations across the country. The truck stop company will upgrade its stores through its Strategic Remodel Initiative, which started in 2022. This includes the modernization of its recently acquired turnpike location in Stroud, Oklahoma. By 2035, over half of Love's 655 stores will be either new or updated.
Food service giant Sodexo plans to open nearly 100 "Food Hive" locations on campuses nationwide by 2026. The company has already started the process, aiming to launch about 30 new college convenience stores during the current 2024-25 academic year.
7-Eleven is going big on food and "frictionless shopping." The convenience store giant plans to open 500 new "food-forward" locations across the U.S. from 2025 to 2027. The expansion builds on 7-Eleven's "Evolution" store concept, first launched in Dallas in 2019. These larger-format stores feature in-store restaurants, premium products like craft beer and cigars, and an emphasis on fresh, grab-and-go meals.
Amazon has quietly opened a new type of grocery store in downtown Chicago. Called Amazon Grocery, the 3,800-square-foot store is a testing ground for Amazon's latest experiment in brick-and-mortar retail. The first Amazon Grocery location shares a building with a Whole Foods Market, which Amazon purchased in 2017.