Gallery: See how Pilot travel centers nationwide will look after $1 billion renovation (USA TODAY)

I like how this "reporter" who is so lazy they won't even read the press release and rework it into a real fact driven article
repeats this sentence 23 times:

This Pilot, which opened in February in Albuquerque, is an example of how 400 Pilot travel centers will be built or renovated in the next three years.

 

lmao ! so true

 

The showers look nice

 

If they keep catching fire, there won't be renovations, there will be claims and lawsuits....lol

 

the idiot is too busy looking for a new coach for his crappy football team.

 

they wont. they been at it long enough to know what they are doing, they literally dont care about parking, it makes no money. as long as they got fuel, coffee and soda....thats all they care about. the amount of money one store makes off coffee in a month is about 6 months of our salary, its insane.

they buy like 20lbs of cofee grounds for like 5 bucks and recoupe their costs by selling 2 large coffees

 

i don't think so, about the coffee..coffee is a "loss leader"...meaning it doesn't get the profits on that, but gets the profits on other items that gets you into the place. like a sandwich, candy, snacks, cb radio, etc,etc.

you may be too young to recall, but decades ago, there was a coffee strike of sorts. the coffee companies wanted to raise thier prices, and America boycotted coffee....

then they pulled back.

in a short time after that, they reduced the size of a pound (16 ounces) of coffee to 13 ounces.....now down to 11 ounces...

we pay for that coffee, and accept it, but coffee is still a cheap drink...not as much profit in it as you think overall.

it's the "accessorial purchases" you make, once you stop in for that cup of gold.

 

They should have the "Smell-o-vision" on at the urinals.