The Top 10 U.S. Gas Station Brands
By Brett Dworski on Feb. 19, 2020BOSTON — GasBuddy, the developer of the smartphone app that connects more than 70 million drivers with gas stations based on member ratings, has issued its annual list of the top 10 gas station brands in the United States for 2019.
- Click here to view GasBuddy's top 10 U.S. gas station brands for 2018.
“Americans are passionate about their favorite gas stations,” said Frank Beard, convenience-store and retail trends analyst for GasBuddy. “Across the United States, it’s common to have debates about which brands have the best coffee or cleanest restrooms. At GasBuddy, we decided to see who generated the best results throughout 2019. It’s telling that all of the brands which made our list have invested heavily in fresh food, friendly customer service and state-of-the-art facilities.”
Boston-based GasBuddy’s data science team compiled the findings by examining customer ratings and reviews for fuel and convenience retailers between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019, for more than 100 fuel and c-store brands with more than 30 retail locations. Consumers rated the stores by category—cleanliness, coffee, outdoor lighting, restrooms and customer service—which GasBuddy then compiled into a single ranking for each chain. For their stop to be considered a “visit,” users had to be within 30 meters of a fuel pump for two to 30 minutes.
Click through for a countdown of the top 10 gas-station brands in the United States, according to GasBuddy …
10. Holiday Oil
Holiday Oil Co., West Valley, Utah, ranked No. 10 overall in GasBuddy’s rankings. The chain has nearly 60 stores convenience stores and gas stations in Salt Lake, Utah and Tooele counties.
9. Maverik
Maverik Inc., which operates more than 340 convenience stores in 11 states, was No. 9 overall in GasBuddy’s rankings. The Salt Lake City-based chain finished in the top five for customer service (fourth), cleanliness (fourth), outdoor lighting (fifth) and restrooms (fourth) for chains with 250 to 999 locations.
8. Sheetz
Altoona, Pa.-based Sheetz Inc. ranked No. 8 overall. The chain has nearly 600 stores in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina. Sheetz finished in the top five in every category for chains with 250-999 locations. This included fifth for customer service, cleanliness, coffee and restrooms, and fourth for outdoor lighting.
7. Weigel’s
Weigel’s Stores Inc., Powell, Tenn., finished No. 7 overall in GasBuddy’s rankings. The chain operates 67 c-stores, a dairy and a bakery within a 100-mile radius of its corporate headquarters. Weigel’s finished in the top five for every category for chains with 50-249 locations. It placed third in every category except for restrooms, in which it finished second.
6. Wawa
Wawa Inc., Wawa Pa., was sixth overall in GasBuddy’s rankings. The company operates more than 800 stores in seven states. Wawa ranked in the top three for every category for chains with 250-999 locations, including a first-place finish for coffee.
5. Hy-Vee Gas
Supermarket chain Hy-Vee Inc., West Des Moines, Iowa, was fifth in GasBuddy’s rankings. The chain operates Hy-Vee Gas convenience stores with fuel in the parking lots of its grocery stores in eight states. The gas stations finished in the top three in every category for chains with 250-999 locations, including a win for customer service.
4. QuikTrip
QuikTrip Corp., Tulsa, Okla., finished fourth in GasBuddy’s rankings. The chain, which operates nearly 800 c-stores in the Midwest, South and Southeast, finished either second or third for every category for chains with 250-999 locations.
3. Kwik Trip
Kwik Trip Inc., La Crosse, Wis., finished third overall in GasBuddy’s rankings. The company, which operates nearly 650 stores in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, dominated the category rankings for chains with 250-999 locations. The chain finished in first place for every category except for coffee, in which it placed second.
2. Twice Daily
Twice Daily, the convenience-store arm of Tri Star Energy LLC, Nashville, finished second overall in GasBuddy’s rankings. Twice Daily, which operates 89 locations, was first in every category except customer service—in which it finished second—for chains with 50-249 locations.
1. Buc-ee’s
For the second year in a row, Lake Jackson, Texas-based Buc-ee’s has been named GasBuddy’s top U.S. convenience-store chain. The chain, which operates nearly 40 stores in Texas, Alabama and Florida, finished first in every category for chains with 30-49 locations. Buc-ee’s also finished atop the categories when combined with chains from larger store-count divisions.