The latest food deals have just come out, this time at Irving, Texas based 7-Eleven restaurants.
The convenience-store giant’s new limited-time $5 chicken deals are available now at its Raise the Roost, Speedy Cafe and Laredo Taco Company restaurants.
Convenience-store retailers increasingly have been offering meal deals and other foodservice-related promotions to compete with each other and fast-food restaurants.
Sixty-five percent of consumers agree that they’re seeking out deals/promotions on convenience-store prepared foods more often than a year ago due to rising prices, according to Donna Hood Crecca, senior principal at CSP sister research arm Technomic, Chicago, in her fall 2025 C-Store Foodservice Update.
- 7-Eleven is No. 1 on CSP’s 2025 Top 202 ranking of U.S. c-store chains by store count.
The first deal is three hand-breaded chicken tenders coated in lemon pepper for $5 at 7-Eleven’s Raise the Roost locations. The glaze is “a tangy blend of bright citrus and cracked black pepper, served with a choice of dipping sauces including Raise the Roost signature sauce, ranch, honey mustard, buffalo or honey BBQ,” said 7-Eleven, adding that this and the subsequent offers end March 3.
The second offer is two for $5 chicken biscuits. This includes the option to mix and match classic or spicy varieties on a buttery homestyle biscuit at Raise the Roost locations.
The third offer is eight for $5 boneless wings at Speedy Cafe locations for Speedy Rewards members. The boneless wings are tossed in the lemon pepper glaze.
Laredo Taco Company restaurants are offering two chicken fajita tacos for $5. The tacos include hand-chopped bell peppers, tomatoes and onions, and they are seasoned with a blend of spices and wrapped in a flour tortilla.
“At 7-Eleven, there’s no room for boring flavors in our restaurants,” said William Armstrong, senior vice president of restaurant operations at 7-Eleven. “With these deals, we’ve turned $5 into food that delivers on quality and delicious flavors, no matter what you're craving.”
With their increasingly sophisticated foodservice offerings, convenience stores have become a growing threat to restaurants, CSP reported in January.
There are many need states restaurants can fill that c-stores cannot, but c-stores continue to march onto restaurant turf, with some segments more threatened by that competition than others, according to Heather Lalley, managing editor of Restaurant Business, Supermarket News and CSP Daily News.
Foodservice sales (which include prepared food and dispensed beverages) made up 27.7% of in-store sales at convenience stores in 2024 and 38.6% of in-store gross margin dollars, according to data released last spring by the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS). Two decades ago, just 11.9% of sales inside convenience stores came from foodservice.
7-Eleven—known for its Slurpee, Big Bite and Big Gulp brands—operates, franchises or licenses more than 13,000 stores in the United States and Canada. In addition to 7-Eleven, the company operates and franchises Speedway and Stripes c-stores and the Laredo Taco Company and Raise the Roost Chicken and Biscuits restaurant brands.
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