6 Things Ohioans Learned When Sheetz Moved In
Every Sheetz in the Dayton rollout has been open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, holidays included.
Ohioans have learned a lot about the chain since it showed up.
Here’s what Ohioans learned when Sheetz moved in.
1. Columbus Debut
Sheetz planned more than a dozen Columbus-area stores for 2021 and approximately 50 over five years beginning in 2022.
The first one opened on April 13, 2021, on Sunbury Road in Delaware, Ohio.
If you live in Delaware, Ohio, that Sunbury Road store is where the Columbus push began.
2. Dayton Arrival
Sheetz opened its first Dayton-area store in Huber Heights in August 2023.
The Old Troy Pike store opened ahead of schedule, since Sheetz had hoped to open its first Dayton store in 2024.
The 6,138-square-foot store sits in a commercial and residential development on the former Swan Lake Apartments site.
Sheetz had announced the plan in 2022: about 20 Dayton-area stores over five years.
If you’re wondering how fast that grew, the Fairborn store tells you: It made four Dayton-area stores, alongside Huber Heights, Vandalia and Springfield.
Vandalia’s store, on Benchwood Road, opened two weeks before Fairborn’s grand opening, and Springfield’s opened in September 2023.
Five more were under construction.
Sites included Beavercreek, Springboro, Franklin and Huber Heights.
How Sheetz’s Ohio Store Count Grew
Sheetz’s first Ohio store opened about 30 years ago, outside Youngstown.
Sheetz counted about 56 Ohio stores when it announced its Dayton plans.
As of late September 2026, Sheetz said it operated 140 stores in Ohio.
3. Truck Parking and Diesel
Sheetz’s North Baltimore store has 43 parking spaces for trucks.
It offers overnight parking for truckers and sits off Interstate 75.
It has seven diesel lanes.
Those lanes dispense high-flow diesel fuel and diesel exhaust fluid.
If you’re hauling freight on I-75, you’ll find parking and diesel at the same stop.
The store, at 13175 Deshler Road, was Sheetz’s third Toledo-area location.
Sheetz’s first Toledo-area store opened on Sept. 10, 2024 at 1150 Clinic Drive in Maumee, the first of six it planned in the area.
By December 2025, Sheetz operated seven Toledo-area locations and planned to open several more.
4. Findlay Distribution Center
Sheetz celebrated the completion of a $169 million food preparation and distribution center in Findlay, Ohio, in late September 2026.
Sheetz broke ground on the center in October 2024.
Sheetz has two other distribution and food manufacturing facilities, in Claysburg, Pennsylvania, and Burlington, North Carolina.
Findlay is the third.
Sheetz said operations were expected to begin Oct. 11 and that more than 200 people already worked there.
If you live in Columbus, Dayton or Toledo, those are among the markets named at the center’s opening.
The center is expected to create more than 750 jobs over the next five years.
5. Around-the-Clock Hours
Coverage of Sheetz’s Dayton rollout told you every location was open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
That included holidays.
At its 2021 Columbus launch, you could order any of its customized specialty drinks or food items around the clock.
At the Huber Heights opening, customers could order made-to-order breakfast sandwiches, pizza and burgers at any hour.
In September 2023, Sheetz’s 700th location opened in the Columbus region, with all locations open 24/7, 365 days a year.
6. Grand-Opening Perks and Donations
Sheetz planned free self-serve coffee and soda for the entire grand-opening day at its first Dayton-area store.
A line formed.
If you stopped by on opening day, you’d have joined at least 100 people in line.
App sign-ups got 25 cents off a gallon of gas that day.
The day included a prize wheel, discounts and a raffle with multiple $250 gift cards and a $2,500 grand prize gift card.
At its 2021 Columbus-market launch, Sheetz donated $2,500 each to the Mid-Ohio Food Collective and Special Olympics of Ohio.
In Huber Heights, Sheetz planned $2,500 donations for The Foodbank Inc. and Special Olympics of Ohio.
Fairborn’s grand opening added a grand-prize giveaway and free self-serve coffee and soda throughout the day.
Some openings come with a food drive, too.
In Maumee, visitors who brought non-perishable food for the Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank were set to get a Sheetz-branded bag.
Maumee planned giveaways of two $250 gift cards and one $2,500 gift card.
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Wawa Nearby
Sheetz has brushed up against Wawa's territory in Ohio.
Wawa is moving into Sheetz territory in Ohio and parts of central Pennsylvania.
If you live near Cincinnati, Wawa broke ground on its first Ohio store in your area in summer 2024.
Wawa has said it plans about 60 Ohio stores over the next five to eight years.
If you shop at both, the chains now overlap in parts of the state.
A Midwest Ranking
Sheetz led the Midwest with a score of 83, the highest regional satisfaction score in the 2026 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) study.
If you're comparing, Sheetz tied with QuikTrip and Wawa for second nationally at 80, so its Midwest score ran 3 points higher.
Meijer led at 82.
Wawa led the South at 82 and the Northeast at 79.
Maverik and QuikTrip tied for the top spot in the West at 78.
Sheetz's national score was down 2% from the previous year.
Overall, customer satisfaction with convenience stores dipped 1% to 75.
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