Love’s Journey Stops has massive plans for 2025, including quite a few new shops, reworking many others, rising the variety of truck parking areas out there and upgrading its meals choices.
That was the message delivered by Love’s President Shane Wharton when he met on-line with members of the media Wednesday, Jan. 22.
“This yr, we’re excited to introduce new and up to date areas, modern meals and drinks and continued enchancment of the providers and facilities we provide,“ stated Wharton. „With our continued deal with the evolving wants of shoppers, we’re assured we’ll present a fair higher expertise throughout our community in 2025.”
Briefly, in 2025 Love’s will:
- add 20 new shops and 19 new fast serve eating places
- extensively rework 50 older shops
- do a „raze and rebuild“ of the EZ Go location it acquired in Stroud, Oklahoma
- create some 1,000 new truck parking areas, which Wharton identified are free for truckers‘ use
- add 12 upkeep bays at its Truck Care and Speedco areas
- add six new roadside service vehicles to its fleet
- construct a number of new truck washes at current areas
- have gross sales representatives for its TVC Professional-Driver CDL safety plan in all Love’s areas
- proceed to enhance its meals choices in its Recent Kitchen choices by way of its newly created Culinary Innovation Middle overseen by Greg Ekman, the corporate’s first director of Recent Kitchen technique and development
- proceed so as to add to its providing of personal label snacks and juice
New to the Love’s steady of fast serve eating places will probably be its first Whataburger outlet. The favored San Antonio, Texas primarily based firm presents hamburgers, rooster and breakfast sandwiches and salads.
Wharton stated Love’s will proceed to enhance pace of service for purchasers with the addition of “order forward” to the Love’s Join app at a number of areas, together with greater than 100 Arby’s. Moreover, all fast service eating places will proceed to make use of know-how to enhance customer support. Wharton stated laptop screens observe key efficiency metrics in real-time together with greet occasions, order processing and the time it takes for meals handoff, lowering meals supply by 14 seconds on common final yr.
This yr, Love’s can even proceed so as to add areas and facilities to cater to the wants of RV prospects.
The corporate will add 83 hookups to 17 areas, surpassing the 100-location mark. Love’s established community of handy, secure and dog-friendly areas makes it simple for purchasers needing someplace to remain on the best way to their vacation spot. Distinctive to Love’s, prospects can use the Love’s Join app to order an area, check-in and activate utilities.Love’s can even proceed rising its community of EV charging stations by way of Nationwide Electrical Automobile Infrastructure (NEVI) grants.
In 2024, the corporate was awarded $83 million for the development of chargers in 13 states. This yr, building is anticipated to begin on quick chargers at Love’s areas in eight states together with Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Wharton stated the corporate will enhance veteran hiring by 10% in 2025 and launch a hiring program for navy spouses.
