loves travel stop

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, also known as Love's (or stylized as Loves), is an American chain of more than 500 lorry stops and convenience stores in 41 states across the United States.

The company is privately owned and headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Love ranks 17th on Forbes' 2019 list of America's largest privately held companies. [1] Love's has two main types of shops: country stores and travel stops.

Country Stores are gas stations with an attached convenience shops. The larger travel stops are located along highways and offer additional amenities such as food from restaurant chains like Arby's, Baskin-Robbins, Bojangles, Burger King, Chester's, Dairy Queen, Del Taco, Dunkin', Friendly's, Godfather's Pizza, Green Burrito, McDonald's, Taco John's, Subway, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Hardee's/Carls Jr, lorry accessories, showers, and RV drop-off stations. Love's had 25,000 employees in 2018.

History

in 1964, Tom and Judy Love spent $5,000 (the equivalent of $43,700 in 2021 dollars) to rent an abandoned gas station in Watonga, Oklahoma, an hour northwest of Oklahoma City. They named their business Musket Corporation.

Over the next eight years, Musket opened 40 more gas stations. All were operated under the Kerr-McGee brand of gasoline. When the fuel shortage hit in the early 1970s and gasoline became scarce in the United States, Tom Love diversified for the sake of the company's success. He introduced a new concept in Watonga: the "Mini Stop Country Shop". The Mini Stop was successful and the company quickly opened other shops in western Oklahoma. in 1972, Musket set out to convert all of its shops from gas stations to self-service convenience stores.