Casey's General Store

I'm just going to level with you. I've been all over the United States since I started this whole YouTube thing. And the Midwest does not have a lot to brag about, but our gas station game is on point and the rest of If you don't live in the Midwest, you've probably never even heard of Casey's because they only operate in 17 states. But despite only operating in 17 states to show how dominant they are in their region, they are the third biggest convenience chain pizza place in the United States. Yes, it's not just good gas station pizza. No, it's just good pizza. Look at me. I'm a 260 pound white guy that worked construction for a decade. I know good pizza. I am a pizza slot. I promise you the pizza is delicious. And you don't just have to take my word for it. I can prove it mathematically. If you were to compare the top pizza chains in the United States and see which one made the most money by selling just pizzas, this month's event is the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo, aka the miracle at Dunkirk. So if you want to give Royal Warships a try and partake in the Dunkirk 85th anniversary event, you can use code dynamo 1940 and that's going to get you a bunch of freebies. I'm going to have that code and a link down below. Let's get back to the video. Okay, let me set the scene for you. You're unfortunate enough to be driving through the vast cornfield OZ occasional soybean field, maybe a hog confinement or one of the thousands of tiny little towns that have a population of If you blink, you're going to miss them. They didn't have a bunch of snacks and drinks and all the bullshit. That's how things were back in the day. And eventually some I'm going to get rid of the auto shop. I'm going to turn the auto shop into a convenience store. I'm going to start making more money. So while yes, this small town does have less people, which means less potential business towns only had two businesses. They had a Casey's and they had a local pizza place and that local pizza place went out of business. So the man, which makes a ton of sense because that entire community is used to only having one option for a restaurant to order warm food. Most of these families probably have pizza night And that's just our family thing. Right. This is what pseudo scientists. I mean, sociologists would refer to as a food desert and he is now going to be the only person selling food. Now, as the decades go by, Casey's has basically covered the entire Midwest. They're absolutely everywhere except for inside these major cities, but they have these major cities completely surrounded. Now, in business, this would be called the back door or the beachhead strategy. It's not always a good business idea for a lot of retail locations You wouldn't build a Toys R Us out in a town that's got 2000 people. It just doesn't make any sense, especially cities in the Midwest because they're smack dab in the center of the country, right? Cities that are on coastline cities in Florida are stuck on a fucking peninsula. Where are they going to go? Manhattan is on an island, whereas the cities in the middle of the country can expand out in every direction. And they've been doing that a ton for the last three decades because all of the big businesses are moving headquarters and factories and warehouses into these central locations because it makes logistics easier because you're smack dab in the middle of the country. Now, it's only a two day drive to either coast instead of being stationed in LA and having to ship shit all the way to New York. You want to be centralized. The only place they can go, the gas station that sells pizza. And it's even funnier if you're another gas station trying to compete with them because as you send out your construction crew to build your quick star or your holiday or your circle K or whatever the fuck. Guess where your construction workers as they're building your gas station are going to get pizza at lunch. Fucking Casey's. Thirsty. Yeah. They've been playing the long game for decades and is starting to pay off. We'll have reviews of them sitting in their cars outside of a Casey's because they stopped to review Casey's pizza as they were passing through and almost all of them absolutely love it. A beef onion and bean pizza with dritos on top and it's fucking delicious.