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Kwik Trip expands merchandise line with branded clothing including sweatshirts

Wisconsinites who love Kwik Trip, rejoice – the convenience store chain will now literally cover its customers with new products.

The iconic, La Crosse-based company announced it has added to its branded merchandise line. Now available for purchase are Kwik Trip sweatshirts, crewnecks and T-shirts.

Kwik Trip teased the new merch in a tweet last Wednesday before confirming its release on Friday.

The clothing items are available on a first-come, first-served basis, according to the tweet.

Kwik Trip, which has over 700 stores and 28,000 employees in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, unveiled its own branded merchandise line in late 2020 with the release of Kwik Trip-themed underwear.

Free shipping is available on orders over $60, according to Kwik Trip’s website .

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From Big Buddy to Karuba cups, here's how to navigate Kwik Trip's self-serve drink section

Kwik Trip has a pretty expansive self-serve drink station, offering beverages ranging from milkshakes and slushies to iced coffees and hot Americanos. With so many machines, each with a different use, serving a different drink, it can be pretty easy to get confused on what's what or what cups are used with which machine.

Maybe you just want a simple, traditionally brewed coffee and can't seem to find them amongst the Karuba coffees, or maybe you're feeling adventurous and want to switch up your morning latte flavor but can't seem to find the machine that can do just that.

Regardless of if you're a Kwik Trip regular or you barely visit the chain gas station and convenience store, chances are you haven't used every self-serving drink machine they have.

Here's a list of all the drink machines you can find in any Kwik Trip location and what they do.

Slushie Machine, $1.29-$1.99

The self-serve slushie machines are for those looking for a quick, cold, sweet beverage. While flavors can differ depending on the day and location, customers are able to choose between "Blue Moon Frost," "Lime Chill," "Polar Punch," and "Orange Breeze" flavors. The slushies are made with purchasable gallon juices, which are usually located next to the slushies. Any of the "Buddy" cups can be used for these drinks.

Buddy cup sizes include:

Little Buddy, 20 ounces

Big Buddy, 30 ounces

Best Buddy, 40 ounces

Mega Buddy, 50 ounces

F'Real machine, $3.99

F'real blenders are customer-operated machines used to make frozen treats out of the pre-made cups that accompany the machine. Customers can choose from any of the nine milkshake flavors or three fruit smoothie flavors. Remove the lid, place the 10-ounce cup into the F'real blender, choose the level of thickness you'd like your treat to be and press start. In less than a minute, the machine produces a perfectly blended frozen drink. Flavors include Oreo cookies and cream, strawberry shortcake, fudge brownie batter, Snickers, cotton candy and more. There are over 20,000 F'real machine locations across the U.S. and one can be found in most Kwik Trips.

Fresh Blends machine, $2.49-$3.99

The Fresh Blends machine is another self-serving frozen beverage machine. Customers choose either a 12-, 16- or 20-ounce Fresh Blends cup, place it into the machine and use the touch screen to navigate your drink choice. There are nine drink categories, each with their own flavors. The machine can make fruit smoothies, chocolate shakes, frozen lemonades, frappes, fruit shakes, juice refreshers, cold brew coffee shakes, iced cold brew lattes and iced lemonades. Once you choose your drink and flavor, the machine handles the rest, producing a frozen drink in under a minute and even self-cleaning afterwards.

Karuba Nitro coffee machine, $1.29-$9.99

This coffee machine is specifically for cold brew coffee infused with nitrogen gas. The gas creates small bubbles in the coffee that produces a signature thick and creamy texture. Customers can choose either the regular cold brew flavor or the French vanilla iced latte. Any of the heat-safe Karuba coffee cups can be used for this machine. Karuba cups come in 12-, 16-, 20-, and 24-ounce sizes. A coffee-to-go size, 96 ounces, is also offered.

Bean2Cup machine, $1.29-$9.99

This simple coffee machine is where customers can get quick, freshly brewed hot or iced Karuba coffee. Flavors include house, hazelnut and Columbian for both hot and iced coffees. Simply choose your Karuba cup size, place it under the drink dispenser and use the touchscreen on the machine to choose which coffee you'd like to enjoy.

Drip coffee machine, $1.29-$9.99

These are traditionally brewed coffees out of a drip coffee machine. While flavors differ depending on the day and season, customers can usually choose from the house blend, Columbian or Kona dark roast. This season's limited time flavor is toasted coconut caramel cream. Choose your drink size, pick your hot coffee of choice and dispense it into your heat-safe Karuba cup. Sugars, syrups, chilled and regular creamers are provided for no extra costs for customization.

Cappuccino and hot cocoa machine, $1.29-$1.79

This machine is for customers looking for a quick, hot and sweet drink. The cappuccino flavors differ depending on the day and location but customers can usually choose from white chocolate caramel, French vanilla, English toffee and more. The machine usually has an option for hot cocoa as well. Choose a heat-safe cup of any size, place it under whichever flavor you'd like and press and hold the button to dispense the drink.

Karuba Gold machine, $1.29-$9.99

The Karuba gold machine is used to make various flavored lattes, mochas, Americanos and hot chocolate, either hot or iced. Customers can add vanilla or caramel to any of the lattes, mochas and Americanos as well as steamed milk with the push of a button. Choose the appropriate Karuba cup and size of your choice, place it under the drink dispenser and use the touch screen to navigate what drink and flavor you would like.

Tea Brewers, $1.29-$1.99

Customers can choose a heat-safe Karuba cup of choice and any of the individual tea bags offered. Simply dispense the hot water into the cup and steep your tea bag. Sugars and other drink additions are available for no cost for customization.

Fountain drink machine, $1.29-$1.99

This is where customers can find the usual sodas and beverages that are not canned or bottled. Kwik Trip carries Pepsi and Coke products in its soda machines, meaning customers can choose from Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, 7UP, Mountain Dew, Coke, Arizona Arnold Palmer, Brisk tea and similar drinks. Some machines even offer flavor shots that can be added to drinks for extra taste. Use any of the "Buddy" drink cups and fill it up with your beverage of choice.

Reach Jelissa Burns at 920-453-5107 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter at @burns_jelissa or on Instagram at burns_jelissa.

This article originally appeared on Appleton Post-Crescent: Navigating Kwik Trip's self-serving drink section

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How a DIY business strategy led to Kwik Trip's explosive growth. 11.5 million people visit the stores every week.

If customers look hard enough, they'll find a tiny Easter egg on each bottle of milk at their local Kwik Trip.

It's a small, hard to see smiley face, a reproduction of a drawing that former President and CEO Don Zietlow drew during annual meetings when he announced the company's year-end results, future goals and the amount employees would receive through the company's profit sharing program. It also appears on bottles of tea, juice and other drinks.

The smiley face is a nod to Zietlow, who retired in 2022 , and to the company's employee-focused culture. But it's also an add-on that's only possible because of a business strategy Zietlow introduced more than two decades ago and continues to underpin the company's rapid growth.

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Known as vertical integration, it's a do-it-yourself strategy of controlling as much of the production, warehousing, distribution and sales as you can. In Kwik Trip's case, that's grown from a small bakery at the back of an early store to a production and distribution network that extends across six states from Kwik Trip's sprawling La Crosse campus.

The La Crosse operation includes a dairy, a bread bakery, a sweets bakery, a commissary that makes all of the chain's hot food items and salads, warehousing and a distribution center, food safety and quality assurance labs, offices, a call center and other backroom functions. It all operates seamlessly to send custom ordered shipments six days a week to 872 convenience stores in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota and Michigan.

One of the benefits of doing all of that food preparation and packaging in house: the dairy operation also makes its own plastic bottles, which allowed Kwik Trip to easily add Zietlow's smiley face.

"Don asked people to smile at every guest and ask them to come back. So he started drawing smiley faces on stage and that kind of became his signature, his trademark, the early part of his personal brand," said Carl Rick, Kwik Trip's training manager and a third-generation owner of the business.

A changing convenience-store business needed a new model

Kwik Trip began making sandwiches for its stores in the back room of a La Crosse location in the 1970s, and it bought a small dairy in Caledonia, Minnesota in 1981. The full embrace of vertical integration didn't really come until 2000, said John McHugh, Kwik Trip's vice president of external relations.

That's the year that Zietlow concluded the exiting model for convenience stores, based on sales of cigarettes, snacks, gasoline and household staples sold at "insult prices," wasn't a recipe for long-term success. Instead, McHugh said, Zietlow decided to focus on in-house food and drink production and cutting out the middle man as a way to overcome two traditional barriers to growing a convenience store business: cost and freshness.

"If you're having a third party deliver that loaf of bread and you're only doing a handful of loaves in a traditional convenience store, you have to charge so much for that loaf of bread to make it worthwhile that, in our industry, we have something called insult pricing – we have it and you need it, we're convenient, and you're gonna pay through the nose to get it," McHugh said.

Controlling production, storage and transportation reduces those costs and puts Kwik Trip prices on equal footing with grocery stores.

It also helps ensure freshness and food safety. In the case of milk, that means 24 hours from the dairy to the store shelf. For the company's signature Glazers donuts, it means delivery the same day they're made.

The result: customers know that they can get consistently fresh food items at a competitive price.

"Don knew that for us to be successful in our business model, you had to beat everybody on price, and you had to beat everybody on freshness, and that's where the vertical integration model comes in," McHugh said.

The success of the model can be seen in the shopping trends of Kwik Trip's 11.5 million weekly customers, he said.

"What happens now is, especially if you look at some of our small and rural markets, from 1 in the afternoon until 4, the demographic is people in their late 70s and 80s with grocery carts in our stores buying eggs, milk, butter, bread, onions, kind of thing," McHugh said. "People are just coming here for their their basic commodities."

The company does not make its annual sales public. However its profit sharing plan provides a glimpse into the its finances. Last year employees received about $200 million as their 40% share of Kwik Trip's pre-tax profit, which puts the company's annual profit at about $500 million.

Nearly 8,000 employees keep Kwik Trip stores stocked and the business humming

What began as a small food production operation in what is now the company's training center has grown to take up most of the company's sprawling 140 acre campus. Much of that growth has occured since 2017, when the company first tapped Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. Enterprise Zone tax incentives to fuel its expansion.

Since then, the company has spent more than $325 million to expand the operation and created nearly 1,800 new, full-time jobs, according to WEDC records.

WEDC Secretary Missy Hughes said that growth is all the more impressive because the company has maintained its employees-first focus and even doubled down by providing on-site child care and a health clinic in La Crosse.

"They're a model Wisconsin company, and their decision to continue to expand here is just a huge win for us," Hughes said.

Today, the La Crosse workforce includes:

• 700 production employees in the kitchen, also known as the commissary, who produce pizza, burritos, salads and take-home meals.
• 150 dairy workers who pasteurize and homogenize milk, package it and make ice cream.
• 320 people who make doughnuts on two lines: one dedicated to Glazers in the morning and Dunkers in the afternoon, the other focused on Bismarks and Long Johns, cookies, cinnamon rolls and other sweet treats.
• 117 workers in the bread and roll bakery.
• 600 drivers who handle deliveries to retail locations with a fleet of 350 tractors and 250 trailers.

Kwik Trip's plan for continued growth and expansion

The seamless system that gets products to the stores' shelves is a product of 20 years of growth, experimentation and learning, one that company leaders acknowledge would be hard to reproduce today.

"This whole process grew organically," McHugh said. "To re-establish our140-acre campus with everything that we have here, someplace else in the Midwest, would be cost prohibitive."

Kwik trip has more than doubled its retail stores in the past decade and keeping up with that growth required continued investment in all of the behind-the-scenes support operations.

The company recently announced plans to spend another $151 million to support its plan to continue to add about 50 new stores a year.

That includes a recently completed expansion of Kwik Trip's burrito production line to make up to 90,000 burritos a day, a new 40-foot production line for Dunkers and cake doughnuts and additional packaging automation in the sweets bakery and a cooler expansion in the dairy.

For the first time, Kwik Trip will move some of the La Crosse operation off campus by building a new distribution center in De Forest and renovating an office building in Onalaska that the company recently bought.

The office building will house training, accounting and operations support, including a 24/7 help line for the stores, which in turn frees up more space for other overcrowded office functions. In time, the current training center will likely be torn down for an expansion of the dairy, McHugh said.

That expansion is being aided by an additional $15 million in tax credits from WEDC. The credits are tied to completing the $151 million investment and creating more than 500 new jobs by 2027.

"What I love is Kwik Trip's commitment to Wisconsin and the Midwest. They clearly have confidence that they can continue to grow," Hughes said.

The De Forest distribution center will help Kwik Trip better support its stores in southeastern Wisconsin, McHugh said. The company plans to eventually set up two additional distribution centers to better serve Kwik Trip's retail expansion. Likely locations are in western Wisconsin near Twin Cities and in Iowa, he said.

"We think we can double our footprint of stores and still be able to service it with this campus and the satellite distribution centers, but after that I think we're going to have to start thinking about other logistic concerns," McHugh said. "First, maybe you do a dairy or a bakery - you can't just replicate this campus."

Tapping automation increases efficiency without cutting workforce

Automation has helped the company expand production, while the company's growth has ensured that the efficiencies robotics bring don't cost employees their jobs.

"We're going to spend a lot of money on automation in years to come not to create jobs, but to free up those people to do jobs that we need people to do," Rick said. "Nobody's going to get fired because the robot's doing a job. We're taking those manual jobs, those highly repetitive jobs, and we're going to use robots for that. And that frees people up to do more, a different line of work."

Keeping the existing workforce is critical for a company expects to hire 500 more workers in a competitive regional labor market. Opportunities for career advancement and personal growth, and the company's commitment to sharing its profit with with employees has resulted in annual employee turnover of about 30%, far below the industry average, and is a key to attracting new workers, Rick said.

"When you go back to when Don was very first starting in business in the '50s and '60s, we were a major manufacturing community and Don watched friends, he watched family, he watched people lose jobs, because those facilities were bought, sold and had those jobs left La Crosse and never came back," Rick said. "And, so, one of the reasons we're committed to owning and growing the business going forward is we want to provide that long term stability for our co-workers and for the communities that we call home."

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: How a DIY business strategy led to Kwik Trip's explosive growth. 11.5 million people visit the stores every week.

Kwik Trip is a family-owned convenience store company with more than 700 locations across the Midwest. To meet the ever-evolving needs of guests and streamline operations in an increasingly competitive market, the brand teamed up with Olo to offer mobile ordering for carryout and curbside pickup through its Kwik Rewards app, as well as third-party delivery. Since launching Olo, Kwik Trip has seen its digital sales and off-premise order volume skyrocket. At the same time, the brand has streamlined operations, improved order accuracy, reduced manual work and stress for employees, and strengthened its relationship with guests.

Increase in digital sales

Increase in order volume

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Increase in check size

Since 1965, Kwik Trip has been focused on doing right by the communities it serves. So when the restaurant industry successfully pivoted to off-premise, Kwik Trip saw an opportunity to offer similar services to its convenience store guests.

By leveraging Olo for carryout, curbside pickup, and delivery, the brand could cater to guests that crave its assortment of dairy, kitchen, and bakery offerings but are short on time and/or would prefer not to walk inside.

One of Kwik Trip’s biggest challenges prior to Olo was managing orders from delivery service providers across multiple tablets and manually entering each third-party transaction at the register. The process was difficult to train, confusing for employees, and left a lot of room for error.

To help solve those pain points, Kwik Trip first implemented Rails. Shortly thereafter, the brand launched Ordering for carryout and curbside and recently added Dispatch.

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Guests can now order ahead for carryout or curbside pickup right from their Kwik Rewards app. By enabling people to order direct, Kwik Trip now owns its relationship with guests and can analyze behavior, solicit feedback, and market more effectively. Additionally, the brand has seen an increase in the number of guests ordering large, prepared meals like hot pizza and fried chicken, instead of traditional grab-and-go items like sandwiches or hamburgers.

Experience using Rails

Rails has enabled Kwik Trip to add more third-party partners and manage all of its marketplace orders from a single dashboard, eliminating the need for several in-store tablets, multi-system training, and manual entry of each transaction at the register. Employees now have more time to focus on guests and other responsibilities. Additionally, order accuracy has improved and the brand no longer has to worry about transactions being entered incorrectly or lost altogether.

Experience using Dispatch

To further incentivize guests to order direct and expand its reach, Kwik Trip recently launched Dispatch. By integrating third-party delivery couriers to native online orders, Dispatch has allowed Kwik Trip to offer convenient, branded delivery without the hassle of managing its own drivers or contracts with multiple delivery service providers.

Mobile ordering is pretty new for Kwik Trip and the entire convenience store industry. Olo exceeded our expectations by solving several pain points, including multiple third-party tablets and order management issues, while also streamlining operations, allowing us to own our guest relationships, and helping us become a bigger food destination. Week over week, we have not plateaued yet for sales dollars or order volume.

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