![]() Looking for a place to eat? It's all in Google Maps: browse nearby restaurants, find one you like, check out the dining environment, and even make reservations. The wonderful world is all around you, waiting for you to discover. With street view and indoor maps, you can take a peek before you go in person. See 'Perspective' the internal environment of the stores ![]() With satellite imagery and street view, you can revisit old places or explore places you've never dreamed of. With more data and better control, you can optimize resources and routes, decreasing idle time for your drivers, improving wait times for your customers, and creating efficiencies for your business. When drivers are able to stay in your app as they navigate to a destination, you can send them alerts and notifications, add trips on the fly, and get a better overall look at their navigation behavior. It’s broader than the premade boxed junk and roller grill items our locals love to hock.Improve your operations by interacting with drivers in real time The next time you head down South of Houston if Texas City is on your list of places to stop, give this Speedway a try, especially if you’re a native Houstonian without experience give some “gas station food” a try. ![]() The Texas City store represents one of those newer Speedways, everything is really nice, and while the food selection is not the same as, say, Sheetz, it’s far above Buc-ee’s food (no freezer-burned-tater tot for me!). However, newer locations, especially those with a Cafe, are always pretty consistent. ![]() The question is, will it become a 7-Eleven, or will it possibly be spared but lobotomized like a few remaining Stripes stores have been left? If you’ve ever been to a Speedway before, you know that experiences can vary wildly based on location and lineage. With stats like these and the discontinuation of expansion by 7-Eleven, it’s hard to say how much longer this Speedway will stick around. The next closest Speedway is just under 500 miles away in Alabama, with the other Texas locations even further at nearly 800 miles away. Oddly this Speedway is the only true “outlier” location in the chain, with even the two South Dakota locations having closer neighbors than the poor Texas City store. One last look at the canopy before we head out! While Speedway did have intents to eventually grow from coast to coast, it seems as if these plans will never come to fruition as just about a year ago, Speedway was purchased by 7-Eleven, who has begun to discontinue certain aspects of the stores similar to how they dealt with Stripes. In fact, it appears this singular location was built at the request of Marathon, near their refinery in Texas City, and was mostly being shopped by folks associated with the refinery. This, however, is not how we ended up with a single Speedway in the Houston area. One such buyout occurred around 2018-2019, landing Speedway in and around El Paso after buying out the Howdy C-Store chain. For the next few years, Speedway would focus on building its brand in the Midwest, expanding to take the rank of one of the largest C-Store chains in the U.S., mainly through acquisitions of other chains. This travel center, however, was not destined to last, and the store would close in 2001, being sold to Love’s, which continues to operate it as of 2022. In addition to all the usual Travel Center affairs, the location also featured an interesting Church’s Fried Chicken and A&W Foods combo store. When Speedway opened its first location outside of the Midwest, a Travel Center conveniently located just off I-10 in Baytown. The first Speedway to be built in Texas actually dates all the way back to the previous Melinium, yes 1999. The reason for the location of the store is due to the previous parent company of Speedway, Marathon Oil. Even after an aggressive expansion campaign that landed the chain with a handful of stores in and around El Paso, H-Town is far from Speedway’s turf. For those in the know of Speedway, the Houston area isn’t a market you’d expect to find the chain in.
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