Highway Robbery!
This is one of the last ONRoute locations still in the old building format. This location is on the Westbound lanes of highway 401, between exists 230 and 222 near Ingersoll, Ontario.
This location features an Esso gas bar, and convenience store, and a main fast food building with a Wendys, Tim Horton's and convenience store.
We have stopped there many times as my youngest cannot wait the extra 40 minutes until we get to grandpa's house.
Prices at the Tim Horton's and the Wendy's seem to be on par with most of their standalone locations. However, the variety store is operated by HMS Host who's corporate slogan should be "We're going to rip you off!" My wife spent $27 on four bottles of water, and some snacks for the kids. They made at least $15 off of us alone, and as my wife put it "they put the cheapest toilet paper that money can buy in their stalls!" The toilet paper was so pathetic, that my wife said it was of worse quality than the toilet paper that McDonalds Canada uses.
So here comes the challenge, lets sit Steve Johnson, CEO of HMS Host down for a nice meal of Indian Food, or something else that will spark his colon into action. Now lets have him sit down in one of the stalls. I bet that he cannot pull off a 20cm ribbon of toilet paper without it falling apart in his hands.
So despite the humourous downside, the upside here is that, the location is conveniently right off of the highway, and you save time pulling off here, rather than driving into town. Secondly, the washrooms are way cleaner than most McDonalds locations, since they hire adults to clean the place. read more