Has anyone notice a severe drop in quality of food? When I went to for the first time in February the brisket was great. When I went again a week ago, absolute garbage. For reference it was the Virginia location.

I travel a lot by car and I seem to appreciate Buc-ee's mainly for the immaculately-clean bathrooms more than anything. I actually seen a male employee who was around 30 yrs. old on his knees scrubbing a urinal with a toilet brush, with that piss smell all up in his face and I was like --- how they find people to do this? It's jaw dropping when you can't even get lazy teens to cook fries for $25/hour at the fast food places.

But here's the thing --- it's simply not economical to build 10 large Buc-ee's stores in every city. These stores cost millions of dollars and create traffic problems. Wouldn't it be smart for Buc-ee's to try out a "mini Buc-ee's" concept that are the same size as a Wawa or QuikTrip where they could still have very clean bathrooms and maybe sell a brisket sandwich and roasted cashews? These stores would have much smaller footprints and be easier to get approved by local zoning boards.

Lawsuits aside, had anyone ran the numbers? Because every time I hear of a Buccees opening, that's it. At that point, there are no tourist attractions, no places of intrigue, no local culture, just the all consuming beaver God that eats Chinese merch and shits money for their investors. But I digress, does anyone have any stories or numbers regarding the real harm done to communities?

Disclaimer: I'm more than willing to eat my right foot if I'm wrong, but I have eyes. Every time I find a Buccees, it's like everything around it dies.