QuickChek
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QuickChek is a privately owned, New Jersey-based chain of convenience stores with over 104 stores in 15 counties. The first store opened in Dunellen, New Jersey in 1967, and has since then grown into a chain of 104 stores, 12 of which include pharmacies, 7 with gas stations, and a few with liquor stores. Some, but not all Quick Chek stores are open 24 hours per day.
QuickChek stores typically offer basic groceries such as bread, milk, and fresh fruit, as well as soft drinks, bottled water, and snack foods. They also serve coffee, Slurpees, and sub sandwiches. Like most convenience stores, QuickChek sells cigarettes and other tobacco products, along with lottery tickets.
The New Jersey band, The Bouncing Souls, has a song written about a girl who worked in a QuickChek.
Some locations can be as big as a supermarket, while others do not run bigger than a little corner store. Most items that can be found at corner stores can be found there, but for a higher price because of inventory purposes, such as the dairy products, wheats, canned foods, and snack items, although many of the tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco), are sold at a much lower price than most convenient stores. This is because Quick Chek has been able to attain the rights to sell cigarettes at their lowest price by law (prices are excluding tax).
Many of the sub sandwiches come in a choice of either 6-inch or 12-inch, and has long been competitor to its rival company Wawa (mainly found in southern regions of New Jersey). Some choices of subs include: Original Italian Smokey Cheddar Chicken Romano Turkey & Ham melt Chicken Club Buffalo Bacon Extreme Veggie Delite 3 Cheese Sub
In addition to subs, they also offer a variety of ciabatta sandwiches, wraps, breakfast sandwiches, salads, and weekender (24-inch) subs. Customers have the option of asking for "double-meat" and "double-cheese". The deli also serves as an area for cold-cuts. Customers can either order their sandwiches and cold-cuts by asking the employee, or putting in their order through a computer system which sits in front of the deli counter.
Along with subs, various soups are served, normally 4-6 types of soups are served each day, and the type of soups vary, although a constant choice that is available everyday is chili.
Quick Chek also hosts its annual hot-air balloon festival which normally runs through 3 days (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), in southern Jersey. An outdoor Quick Chek is set up with an actual deli and coffee counter, and during the weekend, visitors are able to attend the various activities that go on through the festival.
The company is also know for it rapid-placement movement. Employees have been known to start off as simple "paper/stock boys", and within almost a year's time, can have moved up as much as assistant manager (age providing, all employees must be at least 18 years of age to be able to work the deli and register areas). Also, the pay of the job has been favorable among employees, and hours do not seem to be much of a problem (considering that managers do the right things, for example, store #91 located in Bloomfield, New Jersey, has been known for its unfair share of hours and favoritism, which has made it one of the worst stores to work in).
