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OnCue Express (OnCue Marketing)
Offering a buffet of fuels, OnCue has embraced compressed natural gas (CNG) as an alternative domestic fuel. Combine that with a large drive-thru presence, clean stores and friendly service, the company is delivering a compelling offer to consumers. (Oklahoma City, OK) (2015)

The Cube
The prototype drive-thru convenience store offers customers a way to shop for a range of items without leaving their cars. The store has a full kitchen, fresh foods and online ordering, and takes advantage of a small lot that doesn’t work for other retail formats. (Norman, OK) (2015)

Flory’s Convenience & Deli (Flory’s Corp.)
The two-story, facility features an old-time look and feel, with modern interior and exterior design elements and an upscale foodservice offer. To attract customers back after its grand reopening, Flory’s introduced a unique and successful morning gas price sale. (Fishkill, NY) (2015)

Verc Enterprises Inc. (Verc Express)
The company tested a program to provide work to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities that also significantly increased company culture. Verc expanded the program to providing employment to other hard-to-place individuals and saw its culture continue to flourish (Kingston, MA). (2015)

Brew Thru
Brew Thru (Jockey’s Ridge) has evolved considerably since it began selling snacks and drinks in the 1970s. Today, the company’s five stores sell convenience and an experience — it has a booming t-shirt business and is even sponsoring concerts. (2014)

Fantasy’s Food & Fuel
The 11-store family business has a concept that is designed to appeal to all five senses, and designed to attract the female shopper. Plus, it uses several green technologies to save on costs. (2012)

Pak-A-Sak
The new store's drive-thru window allows customers to see what’s available within the store. The goal is to drive 40% of sales through the drive-thru. The company also has an Express model that delivers 90% of the store’s items in a 2,000 square-foot-store. (2011)

GetGo Café + Market (Verona, PA)
Two big buzzwords in the convenience industry are café and market, and they also are apparent in GetGo’s name and its offer. The company is placing a huge emphasis on food and an even bigger one on convenience. (2017)

Migrolino (Zurich, Switzerland)
With small convenience markets with shops at train stations, petrol stations and other well-frequented locations, Migrolino makes every square foot count—especially with innovative daypart marketing in its latest Takeaway c-store concept. (2017)

Farmer’s Grandson/Lone Oak LLC (Eagan, MN)
Owner Tony Donatell has taken a traditional Shell/Oasis Market and transformed it into a unique food and beverage operation with three concepts around food—sharing the same kitchen in the convenience store with other high-end dining and drinking experiences. (2017)

Kum & Go
The company’s new marketplace design prototype has a variety of unique offerings for customers, especially around fresh, with the goal to create the store of the future for associates and for customers. (Johnston, IA). (2016)

Metro Market (Sprint Food Stores Inc.)
Metro Market embraces the historical aspects of an old building with a modern offer, with the design and concept of being a place to hang out, study or host social and business events (Augusta, GA). (2016)

Slovacek’s
The unique architecture and quirky personality is the driving force drawing costumers in, but it’s Slovacek’s fresh baked goods, homemade meats and cheeses, gourmet sandwiches and unique merchandise that keeps customers coming back (West, TX). (2016)

Throx Market Station (Throckmorton Enterprises Inc.)
The store has high-end food, a protein shake program and plenty of unique better-for-your items, but it is the community spirit that sets Throx apart. (Winchester, VA). (2016)

Fuel City
It’s a gas station, car wash, acclaimed taco destination a general place of curiosity with a swimming pool and livestock like longhorns and donkeys. Most of all, it’s wildly successful. (Dallas, TX). (2016)

Sheetz (Sheetz Inc.)
This is the first modern location for Sheetz without gasoline or parking, with a complete focus on the food and beverage offering. The nearly 15,000-square-foot location is “a giant sandbox” to experiment and develop programs to redefine the company. (Morgantown, WV) (2015)

Latitudes (BF Holdings LLC)
Latitudes combines elements of grocery, convenience retailing, fueling and foodservice into a neighborhood hangout, especially for community groups — which makes perfect sense given that it was designed by community focus groups. (Rio Rancho, NM) (2015)

Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que
Joe’s personifies the notion that great food can be eaten at a gas station. Not only is it considered the best BBQ in Kansas City, which is a feat in itself, it is considered among the best places to eat anywhere, earning lines out the door and raves from Anthony Bourdain, among others. (2015)

WagsPark Shell
WagsPark Shell (Newtown, OH) celebrates dogs — after all, it’s contained within a state-of-the-art private dog park. The store offers growlers and bretzels that can be enjoyed whether by customers on the go or those who are at the park. (2014)

RaceTrac
The company has a strong commitment to “the RaceTrac way” — to make people’s lives simpler and more enjoyable. A big part of that commitment is achieved through the RT6K — a new concept (Smyrna, GA) that with has refocused the company and what it delivers. (2014)

Mendez Fuel (Mendez Fuel Holdings LLC)
Mendez Fuel has a cold-pressed juices program for incredibly fresh smoothies and juices. And it also offers a variety of craft beers on tap as part of its growler program, including a new program with canned growlers (Miami, FL). (2016)

Maxol/Applegreen
Some of the most innovative ideas in store design and foodservice execution are in Ireland. At both Maxol and Applegreen food is first—plus a focus on design and making the store a destination (Dublin, Ireland). (2016)

High Country Market & GastroPub
Owner Zahir Walji is one of a few level two sommeliers in the region, and he sells 30 of the top 100 rated wines in the country. But there is much more to this high-end gastropub/gas station, where even its own unique black truffle and rosemary ketchup is made from scratch. (Round Rock, TX). (2016)

Encore (6040 LLC)
A new foodservice program targets early-morning customers with unique Hispanic-themed fare, and even fusion items like chicken curry tacos in a small format store. Fresh food is just one of the many ideas the company has initiated to grow sales and build its brand. (Hoover, AL) (2015)

The PRIDE Stores Inc.
The company takes great pride in its locations, offering upscale convenience and is a model of what fast food should be with its Urban Counter format. The store also features frozen kefir with fresh toppings — all in a high-volume BP station. (Hinsdale, IL) (2015)

Gourmet Gas Stations in Washington, D.C.
Four Washington, D.C.-area gas stations — R&R Taqueria (Elkridge, MD), Fast Gourmet (Washington, D.C.), The Thai Pan (Leesburg, VA) and Seoul Food DC (Wheaton, MD) — are offering unique takes on gourmet food. (2013)

Marine Corps Exchange
The Marine Corps Exchange is a convenience store within a much larger store, allowing customers to enjoy both convenience and one-stop shopping. (2012)

Papa’s Healthy Food & Fuel
The store is really three businesses: a traditional grocery, an organic grocery and an automotive shop/dealer that serve as the hub of the community — especially the farmers market that takes place every Saturday from May through October. (2012)

Aloha Petroleum
The centerpiece of the company’s reimaging is its Kahala store, which went from 700- to 3,000-square feet. The store became a true flagship prototype, representing the company’s store of the future. (2011)

Kwik Trip
Kwik Trip has expanded its selection of healthy food in its fresh case and bakery as part of its commitment to offer more healthy options along with exceptional customer service. (2011)

Coco Cove
How do you create loyalty with vacationers? Coco Cove has some convenient options, with a wide selection of freshly cooked food ranging from baked salmon, fried chicken, kalua pork, and various pastas, paninis and pizzas. (2011)

Mac’s
Mac’s is part of the second-largest convenience retailing company in North America, but it feels very local, from store design and sets to how it engages customers and makes a difference in the communities it serves. (2010)

Kwik Trip
Kwik Trip has expanded its selection of healthy food in its fresh case and bakery as part of its commitment to offer more healthy options along with exceptional customer service. (2011)

QuickChek
QuickChek continues to innovate and deliver on its promise of “fresh convenience,” from its unique sub and drink promotions to its Fast Lane assisted checkout that speeds up the customer experience. (2010)

Twice Daily
From the pumptoppers to the LED sign over the entrance to the store greeter, the concept of Twice Daily (Nashville, TN) is about creating a culture that encourages customers to come to the store more than once a day — twice daily. (2014)

Casey’s General Stores
In many small towns, Casey’s is a mom-and-pop shop, a gas station, a pizza parlor, a bakery and community gathering place. In 2011, it added pizza delivery, which increased sales and helped the company continue to redefine how they are all things to all people, especially in smaller communities. (2013)

Marine Corps Exchange
The Marine Corps Exchange is a convenience store within a much larger store, allowing customers to enjoy both convenience and one-stop shopping. (2012)

The Corner Deli & Grill
The Corner Deli delivers tasty meals at a very small but very busy Mobil gas station on Santa Monica Boulevard. (2012)

Lone Star Food Stores
This high-volume store was featured in first Ideas 2 Go in 1994 and has since expanded to include a beer cave and post office. At the pump there are cash acceptors, multiple fuels, Lone Star Starlets and a vending system. (2012)

Delta Sonic Car Wash Systems
Does anyone in the country do carwash in the country better than Delta Sonic? The system is pure theater and it also helps drive sales and loyalty to the convenience and fueling centers. (2012)

Parker’s
Parker’s continues to innovate, using new technologies like an ACH debit card that saves customers up to 10 cents per gallon. Inside the store, is an innovative layout to maximize selling, and state-of-the-art tools like PeopleMatter and LIFT. (2012)

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