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Rutter’s quick serve kitchen for fresh prepared
sandwiches, burgers, fries, wings and more.
Food selection from Rutter’s
Pennsylvania convenience stores
offer quality food options.
Rutter’s
Rutter’s first convenience store opened
50 years ago in York, Pennsylvania. The
family-owned and operated business
can trace its agricultural heritage back
more than 270 years, making it the oldest
vertically integrated food company in the
country.
Today, Rutter’s operates 72 stores in
Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Convenience
Store News magazine named Rutter’s its
2018 Foodservice innovator awardee,
marking its fourth win. The company is
known for taking popular, local food items
and adding them to its menu. Its break-
fast menu includes items such as biscuits
and sausage gravy, while lunch and dinner
offerings include wings, bowls, burgers,
wraps, pizza, soup, salad and stromboli.
Desserts include cannolis, funnel cake
fries and fried oreos.
This year, Rutter’s announced its fresh
and local initiative to bring more locally
grown and produced products into its
stores. Its grab and go cases feature locally
grown fruits and vegetables.
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Rutter’s obtained licenses to sell beer and
wine in its stores, and thanks to recent
Pennsylvania law changes, some stores
will offer gaming rooms. Learn more
about Rutter’s at rutters.com.
Turkey Hill Minit Markets
Turkey Hill Minit Markets, recently
purchased by British operator EG Group,
operates 270 stores in Pennsylvania,
Indiana and Ohio. Charles and Emerson
Frey opened the first store in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania in 1967. The company is
named for the area, which was dubbed
Turkey Hill by a Native American tribe for
its abundance of turkeys to hunt.
Turkey Hill’s Real Time Café offers freshly
made items such as breakfast sandwiches,
cinnamon rolls, chicken, hoagies, pizza,
gourmet burgers and wraps. They also
offer a variety of hot and iced coffees,
carbonated beverages and bottled juice
and water.
The stores sell lottery tickets and offer
surcharge free ATMs. Some locations
h ave o n - s i te c a r wa s h e s . V i s i t
turkeyhillstores.com for more information.
Country Fair/Kwik Fill/Red Apple
United Refining Company, based in
Warren, Pennsylvania, owns Country Fair
Stores, Kwik Fill and Red Apple Food Mart.
Country Fair stores, based in Erie, Pa.,
serves northwestern and north central
Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and western
New York. It offers a strong foodservice
menu of appetizers, pizza, salads, subs
and wraps. Beverages include hot and
iced coffee, lattes, hot chocolate, teas,
fountain soda, milkshakes and smoothies.
The stores have delis with fresh cut meats
and cheeses for you to take on your travel
adventure. Visit countryfairstores.com for
more information.
Kwik Fill/Red Apple Food Mart is based in
Warren, Pennsylvania. The company has
nearly 280 company-owned locations and
eight franchise locations in Pennsylvania,
New York and Ohio. Kwik Fill offers four full
service diesel truck stops, four mini truck
stops, two restaurants and two truck stop
motel locations. The Bradley Street Café is
offered at some locations. Items include
subs, salads, pizza, hot sandwiches, fried
items, wraps and chicken. More informa-
tion is available at kwikfill.com.