Casey's Making Another Acquisition
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A small Buc'ees has 100 gas pumps. Most of the new ones have 120 gas pumps or more. The store itself will be 75,000 square feet plus. Buc'ees are truly enormous. New Kwik Star stores are 9,000 square feet. So Buc'ees are 8x larger than the new Kwik Star's.
Depends on the day, the store, and the workers. It's a gamble anymore for sure.
And a pizza worker that makes pepperoni in the morning instead of breakfast and doesn't seem to know it?
(This happened at Peosta).
Caseys is still good pizza. Not great. But solid. Their thin crust is decent.
Agree. Domino's sucks compared to Casey's.
Maybe they should fix up all the dumps they run around the state before buying more. The fact that some struggle to keep and hire employees, because they try to pay less then their competition, yet are way higher price than their competition, and that any of the older ones are run down, equipment regularly is broken down, and poorly managed shows they need to look hard at their plan to buy every store they can, if they arent going to properly run them. There are a lot of run down dumps that are caseys around.
And get better on making consistent food, not just from one store to the next but from one cook to the next.
You never know what you are going to get from one to the next.
And get better on making consistent food, not just from one store to the next but from one cook to the next.
You never know what you are going to get from one to the next.
Aside from the very occasional thin crust pizza and breakfast burrito, I only frequent for gas. They need to improve their gas operations before doing anything else. Embarrassing. I pulled into one not long ago and they didn't just have the yellow bags over the individual pumps, they had the entire area taped off so you couldn't even get to any of the pumps. Unreal.
Pumps are regularly down in our local one. And they are EXTREMELY slow when they do work.
Caseys really needs to improve their current stores rather than continuing to buy more.
At least they made something...the pizza racks are usually empty at my local Casey's.
Not a good one but I’ve seen much worse. Those old stores in small towns are really bad.
Every town >700 people seems to have a Casey's but Kwik Stars are mostly in towns of 3000 or more or along interstates. So there are a lot more Casey's around. Casey's revenues and profits keep going up so they must know what they're doing. The industry might be becoming over-built. We went to Maine a few years ago and they don't have convenience stores there like we have here. One nice thing about coming home.
Pizza is not the only thing that has gone downhill at Casey's, which can vary greatly by not only the town, but who cooks the pizza at your local one.
The donut selection a few years ago was top notch for both variety and freshness, I noticed over the past couple of years, when I would stop for a donut at 7 in the morning on my way to work. More often than not, they would still have the leftover donuts from the day before in the case, and the fresh ones were still in the kitchen. How hard is it to say at 6:00 AM the new donuts are put out and the leftovers are boxed up and sold as day old or thrown away.
The donut selection a few years ago was top notch for both variety and freshness, I noticed over the past couple of years, when I would stop for a donut at 7 in the morning on my way to work. More often than not, they would still have the leftover donuts from the day before in the case, and the fresh ones were still in the kitchen. How hard is it to say at 6:00 AM the new donuts are put out and the leftovers are boxed up and sold as day old or thrown away.
