ALTOONA, Pa. -- Sheetz Inc. has opened a new 4,700-square-foot convenience store in Twinsburg, Ohio, its 23rd in the Buckeye State.
While the store opened to the public yesterday, employees will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony and community grand opening celebration on January 18. As part of the festivities, the company will present $1,000 to both the Twinsburg Library and County of Summit Board of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities.
"It's exciting for us at Sheetz any time we are able to bring our latest concepts [image-nocss] in convenience to a new area," said Louie Sheetz, executive vice president of marketing for the Altoona, Pa.-based company. "We are grateful for the opportunity to reach out to a new community and we hope our donations to both the Twinsburg Library and MRDD will benefit many."
The new store features Made-To-Order cold and toasted subs, paninis, hand-tossed salads, fries, onion rings, chicken fingers and burgers. It also features Sheetz Bros. Coffeez, a full-service espresso bar staffed by a barista. Customers can order coffee drinks including lattes, cappuccinos and mochashot, frozen or iced. Frozen fruit smoothies round out the SBC menu. And Sheetz offers new premium-brewed self-serve coffees made from 100% Arabica beans in many flavors such as Breakfast Blend, Serious Dark Roast, 100% Columbian and Vanilla Nut Cream.
Self-serve milkshakes, a cold grab-n-go case and self-serve bakery items are all available at the new store, as well.
As at all Sheetz locations, customers can place their food and specialty coffee orders at touchscreen order kiosks located both inside the store and outside at the fuel island. The chain is also testing another drive-thru window at the Twinsburg location.
The company operates 330 convenience locations throughout Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina.
Meanwhile, in Monticello, Minn., a new Holiday Stationstore opened on December 27, reported the Monticello Times. Two members of the Monticello VFW, Buddy Kalpin and Jim Hegear, assisted manager Roger Pribyl and district manager Bill Youngs with the store's first flag raising ceremony.
Let's call it a special touch on raising the flag, Pribyl told the newspaper. It was a first-time flag raising for the new store, and we just thought it was appropriate to have a couple of the veterans help out with it. They were more than glad to do it.
Holiday Stationstores, Bloomington, Minn., owns and operates gas stations/c-stores in 12 states across and has more than 420 corporately owned and franchise locations.
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