Col. Steve Austin said:

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JohnLA762 said:

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Just burned out. Also, too many damn people. There are so many new gas stations that are more convenient with similar quality provisions.

I know I'm the only one. I'm cool with it!

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I just discovered The Texan chain of "Buc-ees like" stations/stores. Smaller but similar setup and pretty dang good! Wish there was one near me.

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Texan stores are not bad, but they are markedly more expensive for like items than any other "gas station" in it's category. They used to have shredded brisket in their breakfast selection for tacos, but did away with it. Also, they started with Shell gas/diesel, but now all their new locations are not partnered with Shell and are independent, and from talking with someone that works for them above store manager level, eventually they will all be independent as the agreements for stations with Shell expire. This hurts the consumer for now, because the Shell pumps are not taken care of properly and at the Texans by us that are Shell, the pumps would be fine with a little maintenance, but are not maintained regularly and as a result, often have OOO bags over the nozzles. Shell pumps at other locations seem in good order, so it is specific with Texan stores. Texan and Shell seem like two cats stuck together under an upturned wash tub.

Maybe better breakfast tacos but definitely not cleaner bathrooms

JohnLA762 said:

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Unpopular opinion: Buc-ees sucks.

Fight me.

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I am in this camp. I'll take 7-11 or QT before stepping into a gas station mall of cheap goods and subpar food.

trouble said:

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Maybe better breakfast tacos but definitely not cleaner bathrooms

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Very true. Many of the stripes restrooms are absolutely disgusting.

AggieOO said:

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trouble said:

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Maybe better breakfast tacos but definitely not cleaner bathrooms

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Very true. Many of the stripes restrooms are absolutely disgusting.

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Agreed

AggieOO said:

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trouble said:

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Maybe better breakfast tacos but definitely not cleaner bathrooms

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Very true. Many of the stripes restrooms are absolutely disgusting.

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Which is super important if I'm going to wrangle both littles in the bathroom while Mr gets gas.

I have a gag-inducing story of taking our oldest into a stripes bathroom in Ozona.

I walked out of one in New Mexico and told Mr I would rather pee on the side of the road.

I never go to Bucees for gas. I'm there for beef jerkey and to use the restroom. For that they're hard to beat.

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ConfidentAg said:

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JohnLA762 said:

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Unpopular opinion: Buc-ees sucks.

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Sounds like an opinion one would have just to be controversial.

What do you not like about buccees and how do other gas stations do it better?

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I remember when I'd stop by the Buccees in Gonzales on my way to Victoria to get a fresh breakfast taco made in front of you. Now they use powdered eggs and frozen tater tots.

They also no longer make any traditional Czech Kolache fruit flavors. Everything now is pie filling.

I still like Buccees, but I see where JohnLA is coming from

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That store changed from Buccees to stripes several years ago... it's been a while now, probably more than 5 years ago. Don't know if that impacted your commments.

except for the bathrooms and easily available coffee and soft drinks, buccees has jumped the shark for me. don't care for the over-priced worse food and lower quality self-branded stuff they have now.

Every time I visit a buccees I get a bit disgusted with how much money they probably make.

I've started typing this rant several times before but usually get bored and hit delete before posting lol. I don't stop at Buccee's very often because it isn't always the most convenient; however, those of you hating on the place need to at least appreciate them for what they are! Those of you that think it sucks need to spend more time behind the wheel, stopping at no-name gas stations more often. From the time I started working to pay for school up until the current day, I've spent a good sized chunk of my work day behind the wheel. From about 2012 to 2019 I was averaging ~60,000 miles per year for work. For several years I was stopping to get gas (and usually coffee) at least every other day. Bucees might be crowded, it might be overpriced, but it definitely doesn't suck. Here are just a few of the things that I have dealt with at gas stations that aren't Bucees:

Cold coffee, old coffee, wrong flavored coffee. I have never left Bucees in a hurry and sipped my coffee to find it room temperature or some abomination of flavored coffee when it came out of the "regular" pot. I wish Bucees would get better coffee, but at least I know what I am getting there. This much can't be said about your average filling station, especially any time after about 10:00am.

Slow pumps, broken pumps, no receipts. At a chevron near Huntsville I rolled into the lot on fumes and I got stuck at a pump that was seemingly averaging about an ounce of gas per minute. I stopped filling when I got enough gas to get to what I hoped would be another filling station. Took me 15 minutes of holding the nozzle to get less than half a gallon. One thing I can't recall happening at Bucees is not getting a receipt from the pump. I swear that most gas stations do it on purpose to make you come inside and hopefully buy something else.

Hookers and Hobos. Occasionally the only place to stop is a Loves, Pilot, TA, etc. Truck stops have their charm, but I have never had a methed out hooker hit me up for a good time at Bucees. Had one hit me up and then tell the clerk she was going to kill herself if the clerk called the Sherriff. This happened at the TA between Sealy and Columbus a while back. That was an interesting scene. Anytime I am in an urban area I get hit up by homeless folks about half the time. One dude on the east side of Houston asked for gas money, specifically $50. Told him to get bent and watched him cussing me as I drove away. I think I have had someone panhandle me at the pumps once at Bucees and the staff put an end to it quick.

Poop. Yes, poop. I wish I could say it was rare but Bucees is the only gas station I can all but guarantee that you won't find poop on the walls, on the seat, or on the floor of the restroom. Maybe you get unlucky and walk in to a stall right after it happens but I have truly lost count of the number of times I have walked into a stall at a random gas station and found poop in places that I can only assume it was placed there on purpose. Don't get me started on the used toilet paper on the floor situation once you get south or west of Houston. I am in construction and it's sad to say that I have passed up many a gas station crapper because just from looking at the outside I can assume the porta-jon at the jobsite will probably be cleaner. Even at the nice places like Prasek's I have walked into scenes that looked like a Jackson Pollock of dookey sprayed all over the seat.

I say all that to say this: Bucees is a hell of a gas station. I'm not encouraging anyone to buy their merch or get a damn beaver tattooed on their arm, but you gotta appreciate that they are about as good as it gets when it comes to cleanliness, variety, and reliability. Anybody who thinks Bucees sucks needs to go to an unbranded shell in a no-name small town, use the restroom, grab a coffee, and let me know how it goes!

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P.U.T.U said:

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I like Buc-ees but the parking and finding an open pump can be a pain

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Interesting. I've never had a problem finding either, but I mainly go to the one in Melissa

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This is definitely one of the better ones as far as crowds go, I live in Melissa so use it frequently. Always easy in and out.

Agreed. I have minor issues with buccees but in the scheme of things they are so far ahead from every other place it's marginal.

Agreed.

Prior to kids, I didn't understand the hype.

Now with a couple young ones, I completely understand the bucees hype. Somewhere to pull over with some open space to get out of the car and walk around without feeling cramped is awesome.

Even better, when you have young kids you know how quickly things can change from "all happy and ready to go potty" to them either rolling on the piss stained floor screaming or wanting to take a bath in the urinal. I mean, I'm not saying the bucees bathroom is somewhere I'd want to eat off the floor but it can be much much worse!

I will put up with the congestion on weekends, continually increasing prices, poorer quality food products, etc., all day long. Those are the small things. Clean bathrooms and some open space to run around and take a break with kids is the real benefit of bucees, to me.

This so much. I split time between Spring and Arizona. There's only one along the way but I wish there were more. I've had terrible coffee and lousy experiences at lots of stops. Knowing exactly what you're going to get when you set off on a 1,200 mile drive is very much welcome.

Would someone let me know if they ever start providing sliced pickles with their BBQ sandwiches or serving Coke Zero from the fountain? It's not great BBQ by any means, but at least be graceful enough to let a guy have his bbq sandwich properly adorned. I mean, we're in Texas fellas…offer pickles and onions with the bbq sandwiches! And you have 50 drink options in your soda fountain but no Coke Zero…?

Buccees is what it is. The food is better than gas station food. The bathrooms are spectacular. But the food ain't all that, and the crowds inside and at the gas pumps are a huge minus. I tell my wife Buccees is hell on earth.

If I only have to use the restroom or get breakfast I usually just stop at a name hotel chain. Free breakfast and the lobby restrooms are usually private and always clean

Stealing food.

I think you're likely trolling but if not, you just admitted to being a thief. This board is usually pretty anti thief.

I'll admit stopping by the 4 seasons in McAllen for the restrooms. Always came in handy after landing, it's a short drive from the airport. It's about the best in RGV and saved me plenty of times on the way to meetings.

ConfidentAg said:

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AgDad121619 said:

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Great businesses usually end up expanding beyond their ability to maintain the quality that made them special. They are still a great stop but definitely not what they were when they first started

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This.

But so long as people keep going there (and that ain't stopping based on what I have seen), we're stuck reminiscing about the good old days…. That, and they have basically been deemed "untouchable" by Texans, in that, the second you criticize them you get your Texan Card revoked. Much in the same way you cant say anything bad about Whataburger, Blue Bell or HEB.

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In and out is miles better than Whataburger….

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It's really not.

Teslag said:

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If I only have to use the restroom or get breakfast I usually just stop at a name hotel chain. Free breakfast and the lobby restrooms are usually private and always clean

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Let me get this straight....you stop at name hotels, while not actually staying there, to eat their free breakfast and take a dump in their restrooms? If so, I assume you use their complementary golf cart Tesla chargers when available as well.

Hotel chargers are usually level 2 and painfully slow. I'll stop at a supercharger if I need to charge and buccees has 250kwh chargers.

Bucees is not very good and turning into a Walmart audience more so every time I stop there. I avoid it now.

I'll die in a hill for blue bell and whataburger. Heb can suck it.

TXAG 05 said:

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ConfidentAg said:

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aftershock said:

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AgDad121619 said:

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Great businesses usually end up expanding beyond their ability to maintain the quality that made them special. They are still a great stop but definitely not what they were when they first started

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This.

But so long as people keep going there (and that ain't stopping based on what I have seen), we're stuck reminiscing about the good old days…. That, and they have basically been deemed "untouchable" by Texans, in that, the second you criticize them you get your Texan Card revoked. Much in the same way you cant say anything bad about Whataburger, Blue Bell or HEB.

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In and out is miles better than Whataburger….

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It's really not.

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I mean if you are cool with frozen food just dumped into a fryer, extremely inconsistent quality between stores, and group think, then by all means, keep loving Whataburger.

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

ConfidentAg said:

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TXAG 05 said:

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ConfidentAg said:

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AgDad121619 said:

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Great businesses usually end up expanding beyond their ability to maintain the quality that made them special. They are still a great stop but definitely not what they were when they first started

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This.

But so long as people keep going there (and that ain't stopping based on what I have seen), we're stuck reminiscing about the good old days…. That, and they have basically been deemed "untouchable" by Texans, in that, the second you criticize them you get your Texan Card revoked. Much in the same way you cant say anything bad about Whataburger, Blue Bell or HEB.

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In and out is miles better than Whataburger….

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It's really not.

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I mean if you are cool with frozen food just dumped into a fryer, extremely inconsistent quality between stores, and group think, then by all means, keep loving Whataburger.

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As a guy that used to LOVE Whataburger, the consistency of In and Out just makes it better. Whataburger has completely taken a step back over the years.

Agreed. In and out is similar to Chick-fil-A in terms of consistent quality and how the stores are ran.

Don't Cali my Texas!

Build It said:

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Don't Cali my Texas!

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I mean In and Out leans conservative and donates to the GOP but whatever floats your boat amigo.

In fact a couple times Californians launched boycott campaigns but they failed because it's so damn good