Quiktrip - Type 3

[sgrizzle]

Good story here:
http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/fast-food/new-quiktrip-tulsa-ok



This is the same format as they are building at 15th & Denver, Gilcrease, and I think 21st & Memorial

If you are a fan of Quiktrip, you should pack up the family and take a Memorial Day road trip to 51st & 129th to see this marvel.

4 entrances, outdoor patio seating, tea bar, coffee shop, ice cream and yogurt mixes, dozens of smoothy and slush machines, take & bake meals, etc, etc, etc.

[custosnox]

ummmm.... Scott... that link set off my virus alerts.

[Hoss]

ummmm.... Scott... that link set off my virus alerts.

Already been at least five times since last week's opening.  I thought I posted about it earlier.  Surprised the TW hasn't done a story about the opening.  It's the only one open sofar.

And the one at 21st/Memorial is the old design.  There will only be four of these at the outset.  Three here in Tulsa (51st/129th, 412 and the Gilcrease, 15th and Denver) and one in Independence MO.  Don't ask me why there.

[Hoss]

ummmm.... Scott... that link set off my virus alerts.

Must have had a bunch of false positives..it was ok on mine.

[custosnox]

Must have had a bunch of false positives..it was ok on mine.

not sure what happened, isn't setting anything off now.

[buckeye]

If QuikTrip and Google ever merge, I'm running for the hills. 

[swake]

I went there, it's pretty amazing. It's as different from an Old Quik Trip as an old Quik Trip is from some dirty 7/11 you'd see in OKC.

And yes, with this QT is going after Starbucks, Braum's and who knows who else's business.

[sgrizzle]

I've gone twice and still amazed. Didn't make it to the "non-carbonated beverage wing" until my second trip. There is a lot of intelligence in the design. The aisles are arranged in such a way and the staff is slightly elevated so they can actually see almost everything and everyone in the store. It's a lot larger footprint and a lot more variety but I bet they can run it with only one or two more people.

[YoungTulsan]

4 entrances, outdoor patio seating, tea bar, coffee shop, ice cream and yogurt mixes, dozens of smoothy and slush machines, take & bake meals, etc, etc, etc.

The take & bake meals seem to have appeared in the normal QTs as well.  At first I saw just pizza and lasagna, today I also saw enchilda dinners, fettuccine alfredo, possibly others?

So my inner glutton said "I gotta try this!" and got one of the lasagnas.  I thought it was god awful.   Way too much sauce which turned into a soup of puke-like consistency, the sea of which most of the cheeses got lost in.  The melted cheese on top also reminded me of imitation cheese, although the label listed real.  Takes an hour to cook even though it is only refrigerated, not frozen.

I'm sure my unholy desire for more calories will convince me to try another type of take & bake meal though.

[rdj]

I wonder if the store on 15th & Denver will have tables outside?  With the amount of transients that frequent that store already it could become a hot spot.

[TheTed]

I wonder if the store on 15th & Denver will have tables outside?  With the amount of transients that frequent that store already it could become a hot spot.

I was wondering that, too. I wouldn't want to see the crowd that would gravitate toward that patio. The Gilcrease location isn't a whole lot better.

[dbacks fan]

Bring one of those to Phoenix and it will cripple Circle K (who is already trying to match QT) and crush the remaining 7-11's.

[Conan71]

Anyone know why QT is not in the OKC market?  On Cue Express is the closest thing. I'm also amused by the total lack of collusion in gas pricing in the OKC metro. I've literally seen a .30 difference in a mile span.  You can pretty much count on gas prices being the same all over Tulsa with stations selling "100%" gas being .10 higher than 10% ethanol gas vendors.

[Hoss]

Anyone know why QT is not in the OKC market?  On Cue Express is the closest thing. I'm also amused by the total lack of collusion in gas pricing in the OKC metro. I've literally seen a .30 difference in a mile span.  You can pretty much count on gas prices being the same all over Tulsa with stations selling "100%" gas being .10 higher than 10% ethanol gas vendors.

Gentlemen's agreement between Chester Cadieux and the owner of the 7-11 stores in OKC...he (Cadieux) won't put stores in OKC as long as the 7-11 owner reciprocates regarding Tulsa.

It's worked sofar, but I'm guessing when one breaks it then it's a free-for-all.  I'm guessing the 7-11 owner won't be the one to break it, because QuikTrip would pwn them.

[TheTed]

I'd like to see real 7-11's in Tulsa. Their slurpees dominate any QT equivalent.

But those OKC 7-11 are 7-11's in name only, urinating on the good name of 7-11 with their crappiness. The general opinion of Oklahoma is probably significantly decreased when out-of-staters  stop in to OKC 7-11's and see they've stepped back in time to some weird 1970s 7-11 with none of the actual products people associated with 7-11.