SAN ANTONIO -- To celebrate Corner Store’s official sponsorship of Fiesta San Antonio 2015, area Corner Store convenience stores will roll out Fiesta-themed sweet and savory treats.
New food items include the Fiesta Chicken Empanada with grilled chicken, garden vegetables and a creamy Habanero sauce and Fiesta whoopie bites with chocolate cake, vanilla butter cream icing and confetti sprinkles. On the beverage side, Corner Store is featuring a San Antonio Mexican hot chocolate from its Cibolo Mountain line. There will also be a salty snack Fiesta mix and a Fiesta Daisy Bouquet with fiesta-theme colored flowers.
A selection of the items will be available in 160 San Antonio-area convenience stores for the entire Fiesta season.
Whoopie pies, cake “sandwiches” with icing in middle, are one of the convenience-store retailer’s signature offerings. Corner Stores sold more than two million whoopie pies in 2014.
Corner Store’s mascots, the Whoopie Pie characters, will also be out dressed in their finest regal attire and Fiesta-themed costumes at the Battle of the Flowers and Flambeau parades and will make a series of appearances at local Corner Stores and other official Fiesta events.
"Corner Store is proud to be an official sponsor of Fiesta this year, and we wanted to celebrate that fact in the best way we knew how--whoopie style,” said Peter Brodnitz, vice president of brand marketing. “We're adding more royalty to San Antonio's biggest party with the Whoopie Pie King and Queen. They'll not only be in the Battle of Flowers and Flambeau Parades, but making visits to our stores all over town. We invite our customers to share in the fun and sample some of our unique and new Fiesta-themed food and drinks. And of course, make sure you take a selfie with our Whoopie Royalty whenever you see them out and about."
In addition, Corner Store will be the only convenience store in San Antonio to offer Coca-Cola Freestyle machines starting in April, which have 100 brands and flavors so each customer can mix their own special drink.
Customers can also enter for a chance to win more than 10,000 Coca-Cola Freestyle prizes by voting for their favorite Whoopie Pie Characters, who will be costumed to fit this year’s Fiesta parade themes--Americana and TV Then & Now.
CST Brands is one of the largest independent retailers of motor fuels and convenience-store merchandise in North America. Based in San Antonio, CST has approximately 1,900 locations throughout the southwestern United States, New York and eastern Canada offering a broad array of convenience-store merchandise, beverages, snacks and fresh food. In the United States, CST Corner Stores sell fuel and signature products such as Fresh Choices baked and packaged goods, U Force energy and sport drinks, Cibolo Mountain coffee, FC Soda and Flavors2Go fountain drinks. In Canada, CST is the exclusive provider of Ultramar fuel and its Dépanneur du Coin and Corner Stores sell signature Transit Café coffee and pastries. CST also owns the general partner of CrossAmerica Partners LP, a wholesale distributor of fuels, which distributes fuel to more than 1,100 locations across 23 states.
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