Not sure why they wouldn't work just fine for a truck stop. As others pointed out, the drivers enjoy something that is a bit different (which they are - they have actual meals as well as the burgers and wings). They also offer that option to have food served to you, rather than just walk up and order as most of the stops would have (fast food type places).pseudo3d wrote: ↑February 25th, 2023, 8:37 pmQuaker Steak & Lube opened a few locations in Texas in the early 2010s, they sold wings and burgers, but they never really got more than 3-4 locations. TA acquired them in 2015 after Quaker Steak went bankrupt (all the Texas stores closed by this time) but that was obviously a bad choice--they weren't good fits for truck stops, they weren't a hot growth model, and they needed new leadership & investment to right the ship, which I don't think TA was willing to give them.BillyGr wrote: ↑February 25th, 2023, 11:26 amQuaker Steak (and Lube) was an existing restaurant chain from (not surprisingly) Pennsylvania (being both an early state in the oil business and of course the Quaker STATE branding that was used in selling it).storewanderer wrote: ↑February 24th, 2023, 9:44 pm After Pilot bought Flying J and closed all of the restaurants or subleased them to tenants who opened mostly Dennys units, TA was the last truck stop network left with company operated restaurants. TA has played around with various concepts. They had a concept called Quaker Steak that I think they opened some units away from truck stops, but not sure what the status of that is.
Thus, there were many of them in existence before TA got involved (though they had closed some like so many of those type of chains have).
Yet, they still have items that can be prepared quickly for those who haven't got a whole lot of time as well.