Another one bites the dust .

It could be attributed to the low driving wages vs high costs of doing business. In other words truckers not getting paid enough to have a decent meal or not enough of these truckers around to keep the restaurant from closing.

other thing could be is the food might not be up to par.

 

It seems to me that drivers now days like to get fast food and then hit the road instead of a sit down restaurant.

 

Could be the high cost of taxes, insurance & food affected their bottom line too.

 

I always try to support the local mom and pop shop cafés especially the good ones. It’s so easy to get caught up eating fast food and then that’ll put you 6 feet under faster than smoking or anything else you can do. If I owned a truckstop, I would put one of them massive salad bars that had every kind of salad and fruit with meats etc possible. It would be a huge hit. When you’ve been out on the road for weeks at a time seeing nothing but fried chicken, pizza greasy burgers and fries, a huge fresh salad bar is a welcome sight.

 

People don’t eat pizza, burgers or fried foods on the road because they have to, they eat it because it’s cheaper and they want to. Even Offering salad for free won’t be eaten anymore than packing your fresh food for the whole week.


We just have to admit it. It just tastes better and that’s what people are attracted to. I think I read somewhere that comfort food releases some sort of chemical in your brain that makes you feel better. This could be also an underlying issue with truckers mental health.

 

I’ve always been kind of a nutrition health food free to little bit. Not extreme but I try and eat healthy. And I have to admit after driving for 10-11 hrs., 500 to 650 miles in a day, when you’re done with that you just crave some serious fattening, high carbohydrate, greasy food and then some relaxation and going to sleep. There is something about driving all day that makes you crave bad food. LOL