Convenience stores and QSR
Convenience stores and quick-service restaurants: in-store networks, payments, and ordering.
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Convenience stores and travel centers
Newest first
Convenience
Buc-ee's breaks ground in Louisiana
C-Store Dive · Nov 3, 2026
Buc-ee's continues its national expansion with a 74,000-square-foot Lafayette store planned with around 120 fueling positions.
Read at C-Store Dive
Convenience
Make sure convenience-store fundamentals are sound before getting into AI
CSP Daily News · Oct 27, 2026
An Alimentation Couche-Tard digital leader at C-StoreTEC advises fixing data and operational fundamentals before investing in AI.
Read at CSP Daily News
Convenience
Toast launches Toast Fuel to unify convenience-store and fuel operations
CSP Daily News · Oct 13, 2026
Toast Fuel runs payments at the pump and in store alongside retail and foodservice on one platform.
Read at CSP Daily News
Convenience
The Store Has Become a Technology Platform
NACS (convenience.org) · Oct 1, 2026
Argues that yesterday's c-store network strategy may be limiting tomorrow's growth.
Read at NACS (convenience.org)
Convenience
Deligo, Propelr Team Up on AI Self-Checkout for C-Stores
C-Store News (cstore.news) · Oct 1, 2026
Computer-vision self-checkout kiosks now include card processing in one POS stack for high-throughput c-store and foodservice sites.
Read at C-Store News (cstore.news)
Convenience
Beyond Connectivity
NACS MagazineSponsored interview, Mako Networks · Sep 2026
Interview on treating the c-store network as a business platform: payments, foodservice, security and multi-site visibility all depend on it.
Read at NACS Magazine
Convenience
Inside Wally's first Indiana travel center and largest location yet
C-Store Dive · Jul 21, 2026
Wally's opened its largest travel center yet near Indianapolis, with a 53,000-square-foot store and 84 fueling positions. Big-format sites like this need large-scale connectivity and payments.
Read at C-Store Dive
Convenience
Casey's expands AI-powered ordering agents to more than 2,600 stores
CSP Daily News · Apr 24, 2026
Casey's is extending SoundHound's voice-AI phone ordering for pizza across most of its store base.
Read at CSP Daily News
Convenience
The Evolution of Point of Sale
NACS Magazine · Apr 2026
Feature on how c-store POS evolved from pay-at-the-pump and barcode scanning and where it is heading next.
Read at NACS Magazine
Quick service
Newest first
QSR
Bojangles is expanding drive-thru AI system to all restaurants
Nation's Restaurant News · Oct 22, 2026
Bojangles is extending its Hi Auto-powered drive-thru AI ("Bo-Linda") systemwide.
Read at Nation's Restaurant News
QSR
Restaurant tech confronts a tough market
Restaurant Business · Sep 30, 2026
After FSTEC, restaurant tech vendors face weak traffic, AI backlash and questions about whether technology is helping operators.
Read at Restaurant Business
QSR
Why fast food's drive toward 100% digital is misguided
Restaurant Business (Jonathan Maze, The Bottom Line) · Aug 20, 2026
Jonathan Maze questions an all-digital fast-food model, from shrinking front counters to AI drive-thru ordering.
Read at Restaurant Business (Jonathan Maze, The Bottom Line)
QSR
When AI Ordering Becomes More Hype Than Help
QSR Magazine · Jun 17, 2026
A caution on conversational AI ordering rollouts in quick service and when they help or get in the way.
Read at QSR Magazine
QSR
Restaurant POS companies PAR and Square launch AI agents
Nation's Restaurant News · Apr 10, 2026
PAR and Square released AI agents that act for operators, for example running marketing campaigns and drafting schedules.
Read at Nation's Restaurant News
QSR
Yum! Brands' Byte Platform Rewrites Playbook for Restaurant Technology
QSR Magazine · Apr 8, 2026
Byte by Yum! is an AI-driven platform that brings ordering, POS, kitchen, inventory and labor together in one ecosystem.
Read at QSR Magazine
Sources
Outlet and date for every item above. The note on each card is the takeaway. Sponsored and vendor pieces are labeled.
Convenience stores and travel centers
- C-Store Dive, “Buc-ee's breaks ground in Louisiana” (Nov 3, 2026)
- CSP Daily News, “Make sure convenience-store fundamentals are sound before getting into AI” (Oct 27, 2026)
- CSP Daily News, “Toast launches Toast Fuel to unify convenience-store and fuel operations” (Oct 13, 2026)
- NACS (convenience.org), “The Store Has Become a Technology Platform” (Oct 1, 2026)
- C-Store News (cstore.news), “Deligo, Propelr Team Up on AI Self-Checkout for C-Stores” (Oct 1, 2026)
- NACS Magazine, “Beyond Connectivity” (Sep 2026) Sponsored interview, Mako Networks
- C-Store Dive, “Inside Wally's first Indiana travel center and largest location yet” (Jul 21, 2026)
- CSP Daily News, “Casey's expands AI-powered ordering agents to more than 2,600 stores” (Apr 24, 2026)
- NACS Magazine, “The Evolution of Point of Sale” (Apr 2026)
Quick service
- Nation's Restaurant News, “Bojangles is expanding drive-thru AI system to all restaurants” (Oct 22, 2026)
- Restaurant Business, “Restaurant tech confronts a tough market” (Sep 30, 2026)
- Restaurant Business (Jonathan Maze, The Bottom Line), “Why fast food's drive toward 100% digital is misguided” (Aug 20, 2026)
- QSR Magazine, “When AI Ordering Becomes More Hype Than Help” (Jun 17, 2026)
- Nation's Restaurant News, “Restaurant POS companies PAR and Square launch AI agents” (Apr 10, 2026)
- QSR Magazine, “Yum! Brands' Byte Platform Rewrites Playbook for Restaurant Technology” (Apr 8, 2026)
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