When they charge you 12 bucks for 2 eggs, toast and 2 paper thin pieces of brittle "bacon" and 3 dollars more for coffee they probably shouldn't be surprised that you found somewhere else to eat breakfast next time and forever after.
Closed for breakfast now? What a ####ing surprise!!!
Travel Centers of America is failing and will declare bankruptcy within five years.
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I have been retired for almost exactly a year. this morning I made myself some eggs(from a nearby farm), a little 3 oz. patty of hamburger(you know steak and eggs), toast made from bread out of my bread machine, which costs $1.00 a loaf. Oh yes, and coffee, I grind the beans just before brewing. I might have $2.00 in the entire breakfast including the gas to cook it and wash the pans. Priceless.
And as I was eating said breakfast reading the comments above the best move I have ever made was getting out. When I started in 1976, there were so many good independent truck stops and diners with truck parking, I looked forward to patronizing them, although it cost more that cooking at home, the added value was worth it. That has not been the case for at least 10 or more years. It took my stark change in lifestyle to realize exactly how bad it is out there.
There are some local independent restaurants around here to rival the diners of the past, and they are well patronized by the locals. No truck parking of course. So it is the trucking industry and how it is structured that has killed the "full service" truckstop with a good restaurant, service, plenty of parking etc.
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It would be nice if small mom & pop restaurants made arrangements for trucks. Once you see a place with a truck parked behind it you think, “hey, I’ll check that out next time.”
and I love finding new spots.
as a company that sometimes delivers to restaurants, (kitchen equipment, furniture, fixtures, countertops, etc.) I’ve gotten pretty good at getting in lots I don’t belong in. More than a few times it’s been very obvious the architect implicitly designed a lot to keep trucks out, but when I tell the GC they need to unload from the street they don’t care how many curbs and shrubs I hit.
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TA is selling 41 Quaker Steak & Lube restaurants for $5 million. Four years ago it bought the QS&L restaurant chain for $25 million.
“In evaluating our overall restaurant segment, we reached a conclusion that our standalone restaurant business... did not strategically fit within our long-term goals for the company,” Jonathan Pertchik, president and CEO, said during a conference call with securities analysts.
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Translation: we lost $20 million in value and we STILL don’t have a clue.
Are these guy being held accountable?
Where’s the board? The shareholders?
Maybe WallStreetBets can buy them?
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The Seeking Alpha investment community doesn't like the way Portnoy does business because they see the structure of the RMR Group (owner of TA) as unnecessarily complex and opaque. The best explanation I could find about TA's relationship to RMR is in an article here:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4320971-new-travelcenters-ceo-is-not-reason-to-buy-stock#comments
The New York Times did a story on the Portnoy family eight years ago because they were being sued. The Portnoy family's reputation is one of having a "heads we win, tails you lose" method of investment management. It's attached here:
Legal Battle Lifts Profile of a Quiet Empire (Published 2013)Last edited: Mar 4, 2021
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Stopped tonight in CB, IA at T/A for a service. I have the oil and filters for my truck. Usually do services myself.
Set up a scheduled time thru the app. Arrived to be treated with a service writer who was new. 3 grease monkeys standing around arguing about who was doing what. So after 5 min made up my mind to just come home tonight and service my truck, trailer and apu myself and T/A shop in CB can go #### off. Never again
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Cute, punny names are great for one off neighborhood restaurants, not so much for a chain restaurant looking to aggressively expand.
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