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re: So is The Texan a straight up knock off of Buc-cee’s?
Posted on 7/23/23 at 8:41 am to Teddy Ruxpin
Posted on 7/23/23 at 8:41 am to Teddy Ruxpin
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They have the golden arches, we have the golden arcs. They have the Big Mac, we have the Big Mic. They both have two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but no sesame seeds on our buns.
Just don't get caught reading the McDonalds operations manuals.
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Posted on 7/23/23 at 8:43 am to rickgrimes
Buc-cee’s needs to expand into new regions before this t competitor does.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 8:48 am to LanierSpots
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Every good thing or good idea gets knocked off these days. It is just a sign of the bad times we live in.
It’s nothing new. At one point every loaf of bread sold in stores came as a solid loaf. Then one company, I think it was Wonder Bread, started selling their loaves sliced. As soon as other bread companies saw it was a hit, they started slicing their bread. That was almost 100 years ago.
This post was edited on 7/23/23 at 8:48 am
Posted on 7/23/23 at 9:01 am to Thundercles
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I personally always avoid Buc-ee's because they're usually annoyingly far off the highway
Cant say I’ve ever seen a buc-cee’s annoyingly far off the highway.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 9:05 am to LoneStar23
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Where is that located
Schulenberg.
About halfway between San Antonio and Houston.
We stop there all the time on our way home to Mississippi. It's just as clean as Buc-cee's, but way fewer people.
Speaking of Buc-cee's, they are renovating the one in Luling to make it the biggest in the world.
This post was edited on 7/23/23 at 9:07 am
Posted on 7/23/23 at 9:12 am to rickgrimes
The lavish convenience store concept where you could buy premium jerky, a sign that says “bless this mess” and a painting of Gus and Call was around long before Buc-ees.
They just made it larger.
They just made it larger.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 9:13 am to TheRoarRestoredInBR
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Guthries, Baileys, Canes, Zaxby
Add Lit Pizza to this mix as well. They adopted the concept from Blaze Pizza and beat Blaze to the marketplace in Louisiana.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 9:14 am to rickgrimes
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Man, I love capitalism. “Nice margins you have there. Be a shame if something happened to them!”
The only negative is when companies cut costs so much that they become a race to the bottom and the product suffers simply to deliver something as cheaply as possible.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 9:14 am to TejasHorn
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premium jerky
a lot of you baws apparently have never had real beef jerky
Posted on 7/23/23 at 9:55 am to rickgrimes
Texans are owned by a great Texas Baw family that saw a need in areas where there were no Buc-cees and filled a void. They are mostly in smaller towns which have seen tremendous growth due to the Eagle Ford. They have also opened up Steak Houses in some of the same towns, 5D Steakhouse, great steaks btw. They are fisherman so they expanded to a couple towns along the coast like Port Aransas and Port OConner with establishments. The owner of Buc-cees, “Beaver” Aplin is usually pretty quick to jump on copy cats if he feels they cross the line into infringement of his brand, I wouldn't doubt if there hasn't been agreement worked out between them and their markets.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 10:02 am to The Boat
quote:fify. Might be better for the clientele out that way.
You could even have a sign saying “Las próximas 500 millas de Buc-ee.”
Posted on 7/23/23 at 10:03 am to The Boat
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There’s plenty enough people and road traffic to put them in Abilene, Odessa/Midland, Lubbock, Amarillo, El Paso. Even one around Fort Stockton or Van Horn.
That’s what I was thinking….probably a million people between those cities!
Posted on 7/23/23 at 10:08 am to rickgrimes
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This post was edited on 3/14/24 at 10:39 am
Posted on 7/23/23 at 10:12 am to rickgrimes
the Texan is a more expensive knockoff of buc-ees. Last weekend a simple chopped beef on a burger bun and a beer was 16 dollars. Schlingberg texas location
This post was edited on 7/23/23 at 10:18 am
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:11 am to rickgrimes
I like it more… all the same stuff and always less crowded
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:23 am to Puck82
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Buccees is the Walmart of gas stations. Took ideas from gas stations around the country and put it under one roof. This is no way a knock on buccees but you can’t really copyright the idea, just the recipes and logos.
They did all of that, but then they paid their employees enough to give a shite. That's what may separate it and others.
This post was edited on 7/23/23 at 11:24 am
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:26 am to rickgrimes
That’s an extremely close knockoff, I appreciate the attention to detail. If you swapped the sign with Bucees I’d say it’s a bucees
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:30 am to funnystuff
The McDowell's appears to be Korean from the language on the far left sign in the background.
Husband drove past a Buccee's in north Alabama last week. It's at an exit to Athens where he'd never seen traffic before. then along came Buccee's and the place was packed and traffic backed up onto the exit ramp from the interstate highway.
Husband drove past a Buccee's in north Alabama last week. It's at an exit to Athens where he'd never seen traffic before. then along came Buccee's and the place was packed and traffic backed up onto the exit ramp from the interstate highway.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:35 am to rickgrimes
How dare they!!
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:36 am to rickgrimes
I hit one of these on the way back from New Braunsfels last year. I don’t remember what the gas prices were like but that’s an under appreciated part of Buccees allure.
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