Last updated on December 7th, 2015 at 02:27 pm
Rutter’s Farm Store has always had an interest in offering fresh food, but its newest location in Leola, Pennsylvania, incorporates an expanded menu, turning the convenience store into a convenience restaurant. The more than 7,000-s.f. store boasts a new kitchen—the R-Kitchen—plus an indoor seating area for 30. The menu has the usual burgers and pastrami, but also meatballs, corned beef, brisket, crab cakes, shrimp and Alaskan cod. The store exemplifies an industry-wide trend to provide restaurant-quality food—and experience—in a convenience store setting. “We are still a store, a store that serves food like a quick-service restaurant,” said Suzanne Cramer, Rutter’s spokesperson…
7-Eleven Inc. is adding more space for lockers at a number of its North American stores. Over the past year, 7-Eleven has added lockers for customers to pick up FedEx and UPS packages, as well as Walmart lockers at six Toronto stores.
