This is a "Super 7-Eleven on Route 1 Northbound in Monmouth Junction, NJ. It comes complete with gas islands and well stocked convenience store. It is part of the trend to provide everything needed for a roadtrip, much like the new Wawa stores and Quick Cheks that are showing up along most American byways lately. Admittedly, it is nice to fill the gas tank and the belly in one stop.
The gasoline is provided by Valero at competitive prices, but not as low as the Speedways and other no-names of the world. The shop itself does not look very different than the older versions, but there is more variety of soft drinks and snacks, and the coffee seems to also be up a notch or two. Their hot snacks are about the same, with all manner of hot dogs, and other cylindrical foods grilling on the hot tubular steel of the original hot dogger. Yes, you can get a burger shaped like a taquito. In fact, we tried 5 varieties of these semi-Mexican flauta-like creations, and found them fairly tasty and easy to use in a moving motor vehicle. Not that they would become a sought after part of my diet, but in a pinch on the highway, they would do quite nicely. Not bad @ 5 for $4.
The entire stop for gas and grub was less than ten minutes. We saved time not needing to make another stop in the almost 2 hour cruise to Queens, NY.
The restrooms were clean, too. read more