QuikTrip

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At QuikTrip late one night, a regular asked: ‘Why does that gas pump always say “$2.99 per gallon” even when it’s freezing outside?’ A delivery driver shrugged and replied, ‘It must be some kind of thermostat trick—when it gets cold, the price goes up to $3.09!’ The regular laughed, shook his head, and said, “Guess I’ll just keep my old tank heater then.”

2. At dawn, when most QuikTrip customers were just waking up, an early bird delivery driver noticed something strange: every morning, the same old man would appear out of thin air near the gas pumps. Curious, he followed the old man and saw him disappear into a nearby alleyway each time. One day, after much observation, the delivery driver discovered that our friend was actually a neighborhood cat who had learned to open the gate using his paws. From then on, whenever anyone asked why there was always a cat hanging around the gas station, everyone smiled and said, ‘That’s just QuikTrip’s regular customer.’

3. At midnight, a delivery driver pulled into QuikTrip’s parking lot and noticed something odd: the gas pumps hummed like crickets on a summer night. Curious, he approached one pump and saw a neon sign reading ‘Midnight Special: Free Gas for One Tank!’ With a smile, he filled up his truck—and promptly fell asleep in the car, snoring so loudly that a nearby neighbor thought it was part of the gas station’s new attraction.

4. At QuikTrip, a regular once wondered aloud: why did every morning at exactly six o’clock, the coffee machine seemed to brew itself? Then one day, a delivery driver mentioned that he’d seen a squirrel scurrying around behind the counter early in the morning. It turned out the critter had been helping himself to snacks and accidentally tripped the coffee maker’s timer each dawn. Since then, customers joke that QuikTrip has an unseen barista who loves nuts more than caffeine.