New Millennial-Friendly Fresh Convenience Store Opens with Free Coffee February 4
BOHEMIA, NY — A new one-stop shopping concept offering fresh convenience in fast-casual food service, fresh brewed coffee, and fuel is coming to Suffolk County.
QuickChek, a leader in food service that redefines “fresh convenience” in making a difference in people’s everyday lives, is opening a new 6,750–square-foot store located at 3540 Veterans Memorial Highway in Bohemia on February 4, 2020.
Grand opening promotions include free QuickChek hot or iced coffee offered to all patrons from February 4-16, 2020. QuickChek’s coffee was voted “best in America” in a national consumer survey.
The new Bohemia store offers an innovative “Fresh to Go” design that meets the needs of today’s fast-casual shopper with more than 50 percent of the store dedicated to fresh food and beverages.
“We serve busy people on the go and today’s consumer, especially young professionals, families and health-conscious people, want fresh,” said QuickChek CEO Dean Durling. “So we have dedicated more than half of the store to food service and fresh beverages, including our guaranteed fresh brewed hot and iced coffees. We meet your need for what you need now, whether it’s a freshly-prepared sub, our guaranteed fresh-brewed coffee, or fuel, and get you on your way fast.”
New Store Design & Innovation Features
- Sleek open concept layout features earth tone colors, clean sightlines and spacious stand-alone food displays with consumer-friendly expansive aisles for added convenience when customizing food and beverages
- New foodservice menu offering delicious chef-crafted, custom-made subs featuring more meat and more proteins served on bakery-fresh ciabatta bread, while emphasizing seasonal flavors
- Extensive display of freshly-made QuickChek grab-and-go food and market items
- Large stand-alone soup station offering a daily rotation of freshly-prepared, never-frozen QuickChek soups which have become a meal replacement as consumers’ dining habits continue to change
- A wide selection of healthy baked snacks and fresh cut fruit perfect for snacking anytime
- Fresh QuickChek baked goods made in-store
- Embracing the dining habits of today’s millennial consumer, indoor seating counters offer phone and laptop charging stations and free WiFi
The new store will be open 24 hours a day, enabling consumers to create delicious made-to-order breakfast items and oven-toasted fresh QuickChek subs, sandwiches, wraps and salads. They will also be able to personalize hot and cold beverages exactly as they want them, or select freshly prepared ready-to-go items, any time of day or night as people’s schedules continue to change.
With a professional chef heading its culinary team, QuickChek’s new chef-crafted, restaurant-quality subs are custom-made and feature more meat and more proteins served on bakery-fresh ciabatta bread while emphasizing seasonal flavors.
The new top-of-the-line, higher-quality menu further establishes QuickChek’s position as the foodservice destination in the New York metropolitan area and complements its award-winning fresh-brewed hot and iced coffee program.
Looking to perk up your day? Try a fresh brewed QuickChek Maple Pancake hot or iced coffee made with sweet maple with notes of indulgent buttery cream and cinnamon.
Amenities in the new store include no-fee ATMs which provide additional added value to consumers; indoor seating for 12 people and outdoor seating for eight; eight gas pumps/16 fueling positions offering high-quality fuel at value prices; and 53 parking spaces.
QuickChek’s new mobile app features improved mobile ordering including the ability to create an account to easily place and re-order your favorite meals, receive offers for fresh deals on delicious food and beverages, and earn Power Perks to qualify for free coffee.
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QuickChek stores provide local one-stop shopping, offering a wide variety of grocery and market items. Modern by industry standards, the privately-held company maintains bright clean stores, well-lighted fuel stations and parking lots with wide, easy-to-use entrances and exits that add to a shopper’s convenience. Fresh. Caring. Value. Speed. All of the things you want, all in one location.
The family-owned company was recently named “Prepared Foods Innovator of the Year” in Convenience Store News’ seventh-annual Foodservice Innovators Awards program for its innovation and the freshness of its subs, breakfast sandwiches and fresh coffee program; it is the company’s third major foodservice award the past four years.
Fast friendly service provided by locally hired team members, self-checkout counters (an industry first) and an expanding mobile ordering menu through the QuickChek mobile app further meet the needs of today’s on-the-go shopper.
IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY
The new store creates 45 new local jobs including eight management positions. Each new QuickChek typically generates approximately $1 million in tax revenue, further adding to the positive impact it has on a community.
As does its commitment to giving back to the communities it serves: QuickChek will donate $0.25 for every sub, sandwich and wrap sold in the store from February 4-March 3, 2020 to the Connetquot Fury youth soccer team.
HONORS
QuickChek has been named one of the “Best Companies to Work For” in New York State in each of the past eight years by the New York State Society of Human Resource Management and was named one of “America’s Best Employers” by Forbes.
GRAND OPENING SPECIALS
Grand Opening promotions include free QuickChek hot or iced coffee offered to all patrons from February 4-16, 2020. As an added value, all 6-inch QuickChek subs are just $3 and all 12-inch QuickChek subs are just $6 from February 4-16, 2020; and all QuickChek smoothies and Espresso bar drinks are $2 from February 4-16, 2020.
This is the second store QuickChek has opened in Suffolk County in the past three months; it recently opened a location on Jericho Turnpike in Commack on Oct. 29. Other Long Island locations include Lake Grove, Copiague and Bethpage.
Consumers can enjoy additional convenience and savings at any of the company’s 160 store locations throughout New Jersey, the Hudson Valley and Long Island by downloading the QuickChek mobile app at www.quickchek.com.
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