ONALASKA, Wis. -- Kwik Trip is opening of a store in Onalaska, Wis., reported The Holmen Courier. The new store will have a drive-through window for customers to use to order coffee and other quick items.
“It will be the first ever drive-through for Kwik Trip,” Hans Zietlow, director of real estate for the La Crosse, Wis.-based chain, told the newspaper.
The company purchased the Shell station earlier this month and has started remodeling. “We 're gutting the interior,” Zietlow said. “We plan to have the building reopened the second week of April.”[image-nocss]
He also said that other than the drive-through window, the rest of the store will look like the rest of the approximately 350 other Kwik Trip stores.
The drive-through was used by Taco John 's, which was part of the Shell facility, said the report.
“We kicked [the idea of a drive-through window] around a bit, and decided it seemed like a good opportunity for us,” Zietlow told the paper. “It 's pretty convenient to do, it 's a good location and there seem to be a lot of commuters there.”
According to Zietlow, Rasmussen Oil owned the Shell station as well as the Taco John 's franchise in the same building and wanted to get out of the fuel business. The Onalaska store was the last one Rasmussen Oil owned, the report said.
“It 's a good location for us,” Zietlow said. “We 'll be reaching a part of the area we don 't regularly reach.”
The store will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will employ about 20 people, the report said.
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