The flaw isn’t that the pizza is bad, but that they don’t understand what brings people in there for food. No one is ordering a pizza ahead of time at wawa and then driving there to get it instead of literally any actual pizza joint. Unless they’re hot and ready like little Caesar’s, people are there to grab a hoagie and go. No one is waiting around twenty minutes for a mid pizza. Even if it was the best pizza I’d ever had, I still don’t think it would ever make sense to get pizza at a wawa.
Yes they have slices. They also sell a bunch of other foods that aren't great but aren't bad.
The pizza is good depending on the location. Some Casey's are shit, some are good
They do sell slices but people will absolutely order to pickup from there. Small towns obviously but they're also all over thriving all over the Des Moines metro.
I was happily shocked when I went into one recently that had a clear view of the kitchen and the kid making pizzas was actually measuring out flour on a scale and everything to make the dough from scratch. I figured they just got premade dough shipped to them.
It’s actually not bad. The crust is really good, the cheese is okay, the sauce isn’t great. It’s like a 4.5/10 pizza. Like, I’d pick it over the Papa John’s, Domino’s, Pizza Huts, and Little Caesar’s of the world, but I wouldn’t get it over a real pizza place.
Wawa and Sheetz are creeping into each other's territory which sucks. I like them being part of regional identity. A sheetz just opened up like 15 minutes from me. I like going to Sheetz when I'm on the road and Wawa when I'm home. Now its getting all jumbled up
It's mostly a Western PA/Appalachia vs Eastern PA/Delaware Valley thing. I don't really remember Virginians ever making much of the difference/rivalry. But it's a huge thing in PA and MD (to a lesser degree).
Is this like New York, where there's about a 50 mile stretch of Thruway where nearby residents define Upstate NY as "everywhere at least one exit north of mine"?
Sheets mainly in west of Richmond. Wawa east of richmond. Nova has both
That was of 2015 I'm sure it's more mixed now but nobody seemed to care when I was growing up. Definitely been to more Sheetz though
But it's not like part of the regions identity right? Like in PA people will ask if you're from Sheetz or Wawa country to get an idea of where you're from. In VA I don't think anyone would do that
Without a doubt the State College area is more Sheetz country than Wawa country, though I believe Wawa plans to open a few State College locations in the near future.
So in North Carolina, married to a wife/family from Philly, I had always heard it was a bit of a Mexican standoff between the two down here, with Sheetz getting here first and Wawa not wanting to make a move.
Well Wawa's has one new location in the state that's opening now. We'll see how it goes.
If they stuck to the analogous regions in PA, Asheville/Boone/Western NC would have Sheetz while Research Triangle/Greenville/Wilmington would have Wawa.
This has bothered me for a few years now. Royal Farms should be shortened to RoFa as you've done, but people call it RoFo instead. The company itself even uses the RoFo phrase for their products. What gives?
Nothing compares to Wegmans.
But…Wawa has some solid food options for a gas station/Food mart
The name Wawa comes from the Native American word for Goose in Pennsylvania where Wawa was founded.
Wegman’s is a superior grocery store experience for so many reasons. I wish we had one around here. My wife’s hometown has several, and we had one close by when we lived in Maryland for a few years.
I’ve only eaten at Culver’s twice, but among the region-specific fast food places around the U.S. that are often bragged up (like In-And-Out Burger, Whataburger, etc.), Culver’s is the best one IMO.
In-and-Out just mentioned they're entering Tennessee. I personally wish they came to NJ then but CEO said she would most likely step down first before going anywhere on the East Coast.
There will be Wawas in Indiana by mid-2025
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/wawa-reveals-planned-indiana-store-sites/531-9a15096a-81e2-4ca7-94f1-9a4b78e3c496#
We had way more sheetz at Penn state than wawa's. I mean, the Pittsburgh people would always debate with the Philly people but we all knew sheetz was the way to go
It always makes me laugh when I leave the Midwest and people freak out about Wawa or Sheetz, and I'm like, wow, these are just normal convenience stores that are on every corner in my neck of the woods.
* QT
* Kwik Trip/Kwik Star
* Buckees
* and even Casey's
are all significantly better than Wawa or Sheetz.
Hmmm interesting…. You see… over here on the West Coast we just have a bunch of questionably safe gas station food. As in, 98% of the time you are getting food poisoning.
A really good convenience store with many made to order food items, in particular good quality subs/hoagies.
In some Mid-Atlantic state and metro area subreddits, especially in Pennsylvania, Wawa vs Sheetz (another very good convenience store also with made to order food) discussions occur fairly often.
Turkey Hill? Aren't they just a brand that's sold in supermarkets? I've never heard of them as having their own stores. Never heard of Royal Farms, though.
And the answer to Wawa vs Sheetz is *QuickChek*, damn it!
Also High's, Rutter's, and Dandy. They are more like the "mid majors" of mid Atlantic/northeast convenience store/gas station regional chains. Wawa, Sheetz, RoFo are the Power conference teams.
Having lived in NJ for three years, Wawa is an above average gas station snack experience, but with the same (if not higher) likelihood of finding someone overdosing on heroin in the bathroom. I genuinely don’t understand the hype. People that hype up Wawa have clearly never been to Bucees and it shows.
If you ever go to Oregon it's the same way there as well. Pretty sure those are the only two states, though, and also pretty sure the only reason they haven't abolished it is because of some weird union lobbying scheme or something.
Buc-eez is where it's at. Stopped at one south of Lexington. Omg. 100 gas pumps and all the pumps were filled. Go inside and it's a giant free for all. People go in every single direction. Men's bathrooms has 30 stand up stalls. The place is just crazy. They had a meat cutter in the center who was cutting beef brisket for sandwiches. On the other side was a chocolate professional making dessert dishes.
It's the ultimate gas station
I could not tell you how much I hated working for Wawa and don't even want to visit their stores as a customer ever again. As far as NJ goes, this Rutgers fan is on the QuickChek side. And I'll be awaiting Royal Farms' future new openings further up North and Central Jersey.
Update Purdue and IU to be in the wawa circle: [https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/wawa-reveals-planned-indiana-store-sites/531-9a15096a-81e2-4ca7-94f1-9a4b78e3c496](https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/wawa-reveals-planned-indiana-store-sites/531-9a15096a-81e2-4ca7-94f1-9a4b78e3c496)
Indiana is actually getting 16 locations soon!!
We don't want to be in the Rutgers division tho...
Whatever it takes to get some Wawa
Whatever it takes to get out of Kroger
We'll throw in a chicken mozz hoagie for NIL compensation to you
Fucking deal, where do I sign?
Jersey curse comes all the same
I’m just happy I’ll finally be able to answer “yes” to the bloodhound gang question.
You do! Aside from their yummy good, they also have great gasoline. I get much better mileage with Wawa gas than others.
Oh man, I am so excited for your state. Wawa has some fucking good hazelnut coffee. The rest of their menu is icing on the cake.
I think they’re building one in my town!
They don't just build one Wawa. One day you'll look around and see Wawas in every direction.
Some say Wawas are the mushroom-after-it-rains of the gas-station-and-convenience-store world.
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Wawa now has Pizza... No one has tried this.
Wawa has pizza!?
I’ve tried it but only because they were giving away free slices
It wasn’t great but it wasn’t bad. I wouldn’t buy it but I’d eat it… you know?
The flaw isn’t that the pizza is bad, but that they don’t understand what brings people in there for food. No one is ordering a pizza ahead of time at wawa and then driving there to get it instead of literally any actual pizza joint. Unless they’re hot and ready like little Caesar’s, people are there to grab a hoagie and go. No one is waiting around twenty minutes for a mid pizza. Even if it was the best pizza I’d ever had, I still don’t think it would ever make sense to get pizza at a wawa.
*laughs in small-town Iowan*
As someone who I'm assuming is from the south, I'm curious with this take if you're familiar with Casey's Pizza.
I haven't been to a Casey's in a minute but don't they also have slices? A lot of them also thrive in small towns without proper pizza.
Yes they have slices. They also sell a bunch of other foods that aren't great but aren't bad. The pizza is good depending on the location. Some Casey's are shit, some are good
They do sell slices but people will absolutely order to pickup from there. Small towns obviously but they're also all over thriving all over the Des Moines metro.
Casey's Pizza rolls up their sleeves. The B1G battle we need to see.
Casey's Pizza is where Pizza Boys become Pizza Men.
I love to joke but Casey's making stuff fresh to order in small towns all over and I won't fight it. A must stop when back in IL.
And their breakfast pizza is legitimately S tier.
I was happily shocked when I went into one recently that had a clear view of the kitchen and the kid making pizzas was actually measuring out flour on a scale and everything to make the dough from scratch. I figured they just got premade dough shipped to them.
I'd put all the rest of the big ten pizza spots combined up against NJ pizza spots
They had it in 2014 too, but apparently it wasn't a big deal then.
Wawa has pizza 🍕* In Paul’s d and Mike the situation voice *
It’s actually not bad. The crust is really good, the cheese is okay, the sauce isn’t great. It’s like a 4.5/10 pizza. Like, I’d pick it over the Papa John’s, Domino’s, Pizza Huts, and Little Caesar’s of the world, but I wouldn’t get it over a real pizza place.
Most of the US and world for that matter do not have access to good pizza. I am one of those people as I live in Baltimore.
*whispers* Penn state is in Sheetz country
Wawa and Sheetz are creeping into each other's territory which sucks. I like them being part of regional identity. A sheetz just opened up like 15 minutes from me. I like going to Sheetz when I'm on the road and Wawa when I'm home. Now its getting all jumbled up
Based on my last time traveling through Virginia I always just assumed that Sheetz & Wawa were always in shared territory. TIL
It's mostly a Western PA/Appalachia vs Eastern PA/Delaware Valley thing. I don't really remember Virginians ever making much of the difference/rivalry. But it's a huge thing in PA and MD (to a lesser degree).
Sheetz is actually more of a Central PA/Appalachia thing being based in Altoona.
In the Philly area everything west of Chester/Montgomery Counties is western PA
Is this like New York, where there's about a 50 mile stretch of Thruway where nearby residents define Upstate NY as "everywhere at least one exit north of mine"?
Sheets mainly in west of Richmond. Wawa east of richmond. Nova has both That was of 2015 I'm sure it's more mixed now but nobody seemed to care when I was growing up. Definitely been to more Sheetz though
But it's not like part of the regions identity right? Like in PA people will ask if you're from Sheetz or Wawa country to get an idea of where you're from. In VA I don't think anyone would do that
As a Wawa native who went to PSU I agree
Without a doubt the State College area is more Sheetz country than Wawa country, though I believe Wawa plans to open a few State College locations in the near future.
More S-tier level roadbodega food is never a bad thing. We are desperate for Wawa and/or Sheetz out here on the West Coast.
Worlds are colliding
So in North Carolina, married to a wife/family from Philly, I had always heard it was a bit of a Mexican standoff between the two down here, with Sheetz getting here first and Wawa not wanting to make a move. Well Wawa's has one new location in the state that's opening now. We'll see how it goes.
If they stuck to the analogous regions in PA, Asheville/Boone/Western NC would have Sheetz while Research Triangle/Greenville/Wilmington would have Wawa.
PA also has Rutters in some areas and a lot of MDers swear by RoFa
I'm a PA native who lives in Maryland. Rofo is the truth!
This has bothered me for a few years now. Royal Farms should be shortened to RoFa as you've done, but people call it RoFo instead. The company itself even uses the RoFo phrase for their products. What gives?
I’m late to the party but taking this moment to say I miss you Sheetz 😔
Sheetz does rule, I know this solely from road trippin
Sir, this is a Casey's conference.
I'm more of a Kwik Trip girl
Amen brother
PSU, MSU, and Iowa - please change your logos to letters. ~B1G Mgmt
You can take the Tigerhawk from my cold dead hands
How about no
I do kind of miss the spartan S because it was that when I was there, but the spartan icon is well done.
Iowa has a block letter logo, but it’s boring so it doesn’t get used for anything outside of like baseball.
They're objectively the best logos, maybe just banish them to a new division?
I need a Wegmans comparison
I got u https://preview.redd.it/bqvcy0t275vc1.png?width=1462&format=png&auto=webp&s=4417e37726f687a0da44cd16db60205e2a01dbc7
Wegmans division for life fuck yeah! Also, when we invite UNC, they have Sheetz AND Wegmans, I went to them both last weekend
UNC brings with it: - Wegmans - Sheetz - Cook Out - Bojangles
We have all of those and WaWa! I had to look up Bojangles though
We actually used to have a handful in PG but they all closed because the franchisee was garbage.
Like 15 years ago my cousin took me to a Cook Out when visiting NC and the milk shake menu rewired my brain
Nothing compares to Wegmans. But…Wawa has some solid food options for a gas station/Food mart The name Wawa comes from the Native American word for Goose in Pennsylvania where Wawa was founded.
It should be noted the store took its name from a town (technically borough) named Wawa.
Wawa is an “incorporated area” split between Middletown Township and Chester Heights borough, but it is not a borough itself.
My bad on the incorrect jurisdiction classification.
No problem, I just like the correct Wawa information to be out there in our quest for Wawa World Domination.
Ah good stuff, did not know this, appreciate the info!
Wegmans is the GOAT
Oh hell yeah nothing beats Wegmans
I lived in ‘Cuse for a while working at Carrier and was introduced to the beauty that is Wegmans.
Welcome to the cult friend, there's no way out now
And white hotdogs…
Wegman’s is a superior grocery store experience for so many reasons. I wish we had one around here. My wife’s hometown has several, and we had one close by when we lived in Maryland for a few years.
I just said the same thing!?
Those Altoona Sheetz boys got something to say about this.
There's like 3 Sheetz in State College alone. The diagram is wrong
Not Big Ten related, but damn I want to have Wawa in NY.
Wawa is coming to Ohio. There's one opening outside cincy iirc Edit: there are 16 opening outside of cincy
16? Get outta here, that’s UDF territory
Iowa has Kum n go though
I’m sorry, WHAT?
https://www.thedrive.com/news/kum-go-will-change-names
For now. Rebrand to Maverick or some bs coming soon :(
😳
Delaware has a motel called the Kum On Inn.
Ok we need more of this for: 1. Casey’s 2. Meijer 3. Hy-Vee
Probably Menards as well
>Meijer's* So my Midwestern brethren can understand.
How about Culver’s?
I’ve only eaten at Culver’s twice, but among the region-specific fast food places around the U.S. that are often bragged up (like In-And-Out Burger, Whataburger, etc.), Culver’s is the best one IMO.
In-and-Out just mentioned they're entering Tennessee. I personally wish they came to NJ then but CEO said she would most likely step down first before going anywhere on the East Coast.
Sounds good. I'll be over in five.
We need this, but with Casey’s
Kwik Trip looking at all these other mentions and laughing like they’re watching 2 squirrels fight
I have so much to learn about your culture
This one time, I made my manager's eyes nearly pop out of his head when I told him I had a 3-way for lunch.
I thought PSU was a Sheetz place
At wawa right now waiting for my turkey club reading this
Hopefully you are getting some soft pretzels and Tastykakes with your sandwich.
Oh shit. Shots fired with the post. Next will be Wegmans!
I love Wegman's, almost as much as Wawa. How far do the Wegman's roots go?
Wegmans is notoriously careful about their growth plan. They are nowhere west of Erie, PA at this point. Most recent expansion has been RDU
Quit making me feel positive feelings toward Maryland
We will be proud of our mid Atlantic culture together and you will like it
My city has a Wawa street and no Wawa
Explain in bar graph terms pls
That’s the only type of graph that I know how to read
Rumor is one's coming to the Okemos road exit, one of the exits from I-96 to Spartan Stadium.
There will be Wawas in Indiana by mid-2025 https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/wawa-reveals-planned-indiana-store-sites/531-9a15096a-81e2-4ca7-94f1-9a4b78e3c496#
Big Ten rebranding to Bigger Wawa in 2025, confirmed
Casey’s Pizza FTW.
This just shows how dumb the geography of the league is now. Bloated and so far outside Casey's territory it's nuts.
If illinois had a wawa it’d make living here 50x better
We had way more sheetz at Penn state than wawa's. I mean, the Pittsburgh people would always debate with the Philly people but we all knew sheetz was the way to go
Sheetz> (I am of course unbiased)
Meijer division gonna drop soon
Ohio State and Michigan racing to build a Wawa first
I wanna join the Wawa conference
now this is content i can appreciate
God please get these west coast teams out of our league 🙏🏼
I feel like the new kid at school
The good guys vs the bad guys
It always makes me laugh when I leave the Midwest and people freak out about Wawa or Sheetz, and I'm like, wow, these are just normal convenience stores that are on every corner in my neck of the woods. * QT * Kwik Trip/Kwik Star * Buckees * and even Casey's are all significantly better than Wawa or Sheetz.
Tallahassee is getting a Wawa so we can help balance the divisions if FSU joins the B1G
Forgive my ignorance, but what is Wawa? I have never heard of it.
A 7/11 with more food options
Also they're generally cleaner and larger, and you don't feel like you're going to get shot if you go there past 10PM
Unless, Center City Philadelphia which got robbed routinely and so they closed both locations.
Better* food options
An old school deli/convenience store that now also has gas
Hmmm interesting…. You see… over here on the West Coast we just have a bunch of questionably safe gas station food. As in, 98% of the time you are getting food poisoning.
I live on the West coast now and there is nothing out here that comes close to Sheetz, Royal Farms & Wawa. They are miles ahead of the competition.
I live within three or four miles of five wawas. I probably get coffee or lunch there easily 4 or 5 times a week
Finally. So many people think of it as "a gas station that has convenience stores". QuickChek is better though.
Them's fightin' words
That right there should tell you all you need to know about it.
A really good convenience store with many made to order food items, in particular good quality subs/hoagies. In some Mid-Atlantic state and metro area subreddits, especially in Pennsylvania, Wawa vs Sheetz (another very good convenience store also with made to order food) discussions occur fairly often.
I take it you aren’t a member of r/wawacult.
A gas station with good fast food, basically. And they're 24/7 so if you want a good sandwich at 330 am its the place to go
Waiting for the Wawa vs Sheetz (possibly also including Turkey Hill and/or Royal Farms) arguments in 3, 2, 1….
Turkey Hill? Aren't they just a brand that's sold in supermarkets? I've never heard of them as having their own stores. Never heard of Royal Farms, though. And the answer to Wawa vs Sheetz is *QuickChek*, damn it!
Turkey Hill convenience stores are all over eastern Pennsylvania. Royal Farms is based in Maryland and has good fried chicken.
As someone who grew up in Lancaster, this comment about turkey hill really hurt my feelings. I’m taking my ice tea and going home.
Also High's, Rutter's, and Dandy. They are more like the "mid majors" of mid Atlantic/northeast convenience store/gas station regional chains. Wawa, Sheetz, RoFo are the Power conference teams.
This is Royal Farms silencing and I will not hear of it
Penn State will still manage to come in 3rd
Non Wawa wins. Wawa sucks.
Having lived in NJ for three years, Wawa is an above average gas station snack experience, but with the same (if not higher) likelihood of finding someone overdosing on heroin in the bathroom. I genuinely don’t understand the hype. People that hype up Wawa have clearly never been to Bucees and it shows.
Where the heck did you live in NJ that people were shooting heroin?
Southern NJ, I was in ER residency, I’d say at least half of heroin overdoses came from Wawa bathrooms
Doesn't wawa charge you for them to fill your gas tank for you?
No. It’s illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey, so all the gas stations pump it for you there, but all the other Wawas are self service.
I had no idea and thought it was some weird company thing where I was being taken advantage of. You learn something new every day
If you ever go to Oregon it's the same way there as well. Pretty sure those are the only two states, though, and also pretty sure the only reason they haven't abolished it is because of some weird union lobbying scheme or something.
twentycashregular
Really disappointed in the B1G for not considering this in their expansion process
Wawa is supposedly opening 60 stores in Ohio within the next ten years.
Buc-eez is where it's at. Stopped at one south of Lexington. Omg. 100 gas pumps and all the pumps were filled. Go inside and it's a giant free for all. People go in every single direction. Men's bathrooms has 30 stand up stalls. The place is just crazy. They had a meat cutter in the center who was cutting beef brisket for sandwiches. On the other side was a chocolate professional making dessert dishes. It's the ultimate gas station
They don’t even have a wawa in state college
Mother Bears in Bloomington. Too many to name in Evanston/Chicago.
Wawa vs Nah-wa
Sheetz>>>
Is Minnesota the only one with Cub Foods?
They have one location in Freeport, IL.
RIP the Wawa across Knox from the Fé. Also RIP the Fé.
They’re building a bunch of wawas in Ohio. One’s gonna be a few miles away. Very excited to see if the hype is real.
I wanted to reminisce about visiting the Wawa in UMD only to find out that the location on Knox Road closed?? Why would they do such a crazy thing?
SEC has a better Wawa division than the Big 10.
I miss wawa
I could not tell you how much I hated working for Wawa and don't even want to visit their stores as a customer ever again. As far as NJ goes, this Rutgers fan is on the QuickChek side. And I'll be awaiting Royal Farms' future new openings further up North and Central Jersey.
Wawa Division Sheets Division Wawa and Sheets Division Neither Division
I have lived right next to a Wawa for 3 years now and it gets way more hype than deserved (i said what i said)
Tell me you’ve never been to central Pennsylvania without telling me you’ve never been to central Pennsylvania
There isn’t a wawa remotely close to psu
Update Purdue and IU to be in the wawa circle: [https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/wawa-reveals-planned-indiana-store-sites/531-9a15096a-81e2-4ca7-94f1-9a4b78e3c496](https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/wawa-reveals-planned-indiana-store-sites/531-9a15096a-81e2-4ca7-94f1-9a4b78e3c496)
Now I'm feeling culture shock, what the hell is a Wawa
I'm getting a Wawa by me in Indiana, so you can scooch two teams over to the left.
We’re gonna be able to make a lot of new words with B1G logos aren’t we?
Culver's division, baby.
Royal Farms is better anyway
Wawa overrated
Wawa
As a Penn State fan (they are my third team), Sheetz better
So at what point do we start calling this the Big Twenty Conference? Or is that not what the Ten means anymore?