QT opens first store in Oklahoma City

[bugo]

They'll be the #1 station in OKC within 5 years.

The Oklahoman

One of eastern Oklahoma's favorite gas stations opened a location in Oklahoma City this morning.

Oklahoma City's first QuikTrip, a chain of convenience stores headquartered in Tulsa, opened to customers at 6 a.m. Thursday at 10801 N I-35 Service Rd.
The first Oklahoma City Quick Trip (QT) opened at I-35 and Hefner Rd Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024.

The location is a travel center, which is larger overall than a traditional QuikTrip. The store has room to service 20 cars for gas and six diesel bays.

Earlier this year, the first "QT" opened in the metro area in Moore, Oklahoma. The opening marked the chain's long-awaited expansion to the area.

The store's absence from the area was suspected to be the result of a "gentlemen's agreement" between QuikTrip co-founder Chester Cadieux and former Oklahoma City 7-Eleven owner Bill Brown. But in 2020 Brown sold more than 100 independently operated 7-Eleven stores in central Oklahoma to the conglomerate that owns over 70,000 stores worldwide.

[Scott5114]

They'll be the #1 station in OKC within 5 years.

They might well be. QT is good stuff.

If they're serious about doing that, though, they should purchase OnCue, which is basically the OKC-area "offbrand" QT (it's quite good in its own right, though, so "offbrand" shouldn't be taken a derogatory). It wouldn't take much work to remodel most OnCues to be QTs.

[Plutonic Panda]

I sure hope not. I prefer OnCue to QT personally.

[Scott5114]

I sure hope not. I prefer OnCue to QT personally.

Why is that? I haven't noticed much of a difference between them myself.

[Plutonic Panda]

I sure hope not. I prefer OnCue to QT personally.

Why is that? I haven't noticed much of a difference between them myself.

One thing that comes to mine is the canopy that stretches all the way from the gas station to the building. I do like how Quiktrip has automatic doors. But overall on cues just seem to be cleaner and the food they serve there is better. I don't go to Quiktrip that often unless I'm in Arizona specifically Phoenix area. I have yet to go to the new Quiktrip in Oklahoma City.

[ZLoth]

From my viewpoint, QT is just slightly better than RaceTrac, but only because their app allows you to order food on their app. Yes, I like their grilled cheese sandwiches and the chicken, bacon, ranch flatbreads. Both RaceTrac and QT, however, are much better than the Arco AM/PM stores when I lived in California.

I have no opinion on OnCue. The last time I visited Oklahoma City, it was during Covid, and I had myself some Del Taco before driving back home.

[Scott5114]

One thing that comes to mine is the canopy that stretches all the way from the gas station to the building.

I want to say that's a feature most newer QuikTrips have. One sort of bad thing about QT is that they've been around long enough that they have some older stores that are more akin to a 7-11 in terms of size and quality. The nearest one to my grandmother's house in Kansas City is one of those. We try to avoid getting gas there because people get aggressive about who is next in line and the tight maneuvering needed to get in and out.

Pretty much all of OnCue's stores are like the newest QTs and they don't have anything quite like the old ones.

[bugo]

I was in Sallisaw last week, and there is a QT under construction on the west side of US 59 south of I-40. It looked like it could open any day.

[Scott5114]

A QuikTrip inexplicably opened up in North Las Vegas not too long ago.

[Road Hog]

QTs are nice, but I don't get anything extra special about them. At least not on the Wawa level.

I've posted before I remember when RaceTracs were little more than kiosks with gas pumps and you had to pay the attendant at the kiosk cash up front. That was just in the 1990s.

[Bobby5280]

I wish we could get a QuikTrip location down here in Lawton. I'm not very fond of Casey's, the company that wound up taking over all the EZGO locations in Lawton. Love's bought out EZGO to get hold of all the turnpike stores EZGO operated. Love's had no interest in any of the Lawton stores, not even the two recently built stores that are fairly big and nice.

Even if QT wanted to build a store in the Lawton area I'm not sure where they could do so. Obviously they would want a location next to I-44. Unfortunately there is little if any useable land next to the Interstate. The KCA tribes own a bunch of the land adjacent to I-44 in Lawton. Fort Sill has just about everything North of the Rogers Lane exit. A bunch of the land near the OK-7/Lee Blvd exit is flood-prone.

Casey's, Hop & Sack, Stripes and a mixed bag of other companies operate the various neighborhood convenience stores within Lawton. It doesn't look like the kind of market QT would want to enter.

[Rothman]

I will never understand the loyalty to Casey's pizza.

[wriddle082]

I will never understand the loyalty to Casey's pizza.

I guess it's the Great Plains equivalent of Hunt Brothers.

[kphoger]

QTs are nice, but I don't get anything extra special about them. At least not on the Wawa level.

I don't either, but I do find that their quality is pretty consistent from location to location.  When I'm planning pit stops for a road trip, QT is one of my 'safe bets'.

But they don't deserve the religion-like status they enjoy here in Wichita.