9 Sheetz Orders That Instantly Mark an Ohio Regular
A first-time visitor stands at the Sheetz touchscreen scrolling through pictures, hunting for a plain burger.
A longtime regular walks past them, taps through four screens from memory, and already has a fully custom order queued.
None of it came from the printed menu board.
These are the Sheetz orders that instantly mark someone as an Ohio regular.
1. Cross-Menu Mash-Ups
Sheetz’s Made-To-Order (MTO) system doesn’t make you choose a simple burger from the burger tab or a plain salad from the salad tab.
Instead, it offers its customers more than 1 million possible combinations.
A regular at a Columbus-area Sheetz already knows that.
They’ll drop mozzarella sticks or a scoop of mac ‘n cheese bites into a burger, pile fries onto a salad, or ask for a sandwich built inside a pretzel bun instead of a roll.
Practically nothing’s off-limits.
What “MTO” Covers at Sheetz
Sheetz uses “MTO” as shorthand for made-to-order.
The label covers almost the entire menu, not just the sub line.
Burgers, pizza, tacos, salads, and every breakfast sandwich all run through that same build-it-yourself system.
That’s why a burger can carry mozzarella sticks and a salad can carry mac ‘n cheese.
Every ingredient in the system is available to every order, not locked to one corner of the menu.
2. App Order, Curbside Pickup
Sheetz built its app to skip the touchscreen line completely, letting a customer place a full MTO order ahead of time and pick it up in-store, at the curb, or through the drive-thru.
A regular builds the order from their phone before they’ve even parked.
If you’re still typing your order into the kiosk, your bag is already sitting on the counter with someone else’s name on it.
3. Ordering the Big Glizzy
Sheetz rolled out the Big Glizzy in June 2026, an extra-large Nathan’s Famous stadium-style hot dog built with Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes.
A regular at a Cincinnati-area Sheetz ordered a Big Glizzy the week it landed.
Someone who only stops at Sheetz for gas still doesn’t know the name, let alone that Skenes helped the chain design it before it existed.
4. Loading up the Dollar Hot Dog
Sheetz prices its Made-To-Order hot dog at $1, then runs it through the same full topping system as every other MTO item on the board.
A regular at a Dayton Sheetz treats that dollar as a starting point, not the order.
They’ll stack on chili, extra cheese, jalapeños, and a sauce many first-timers never notice on the screen.
The total still beats what a loaded hot dog costs almost anywhere else.
5. Building a Custom Shmiscuit
Sheetz trademarked the name Shmiscuit for its own made-to-order biscuit sandwich, and the touchscreen starts every biscuit blank.
A regular never orders the default build.
They’ll swap the sausage for bacon, double the cheese, or drop the meat completely and add hot sauce instead, all before 7 a.m. without reading a single word off the menu board.
6. Ordering a Make-Your-Own Shake
Sheetz Bros. Coffeez sells a Make-Your-Own Shake, built to whatever flavor and mix-in the customer names instead of one fixed recipe.
A regular at a Toledo Sheetz names a flavor and a mix-in without glancing at the board.
Ask a first-timer what they want and you’ll usually hear “chocolate, medium,” the same answer they’d give at a drive-in down the street.
7. Pizza Flatz Instead of a Hoagie
Sheetz sells Pizza Flatz, an open-faced flatbread pizza built fresh through the same MTO line as its subs, and it’s sat on the menu long enough that many first-time visitors still walk past it at a Dayton or Cincinnati store.
A regular orders it on purpose.
That’s the giveaway.
Someone who’s only there for gas defaults to a hoagie because it’s the only sandwich name they recognize from other convenience stores.
8. Ordering the Six-Pack of Tacos
Sheetz sells its street tacos as a six-pack built through the same MTO line as its subs and burritos, protein and toppings picked individually.
A first-timer at a Columbus-area Sheetz orders one or two tacos like a snack between pumping gas.
A regular orders the whole six-pack, splits it across the car, and treats it as a full meal instead of a snack.
9. Black Coffee, Crema and All
Sheetz Bros. Coffeez grinds and brews each cup on demand at the register instead of pulling from a pot that’s been sitting since sunrise, a switch the chain made in 2020.
That fresh grind leaves a thin layer of crema on top.
A regular drinks it.
Someone who’s never had it scrapes the foam off first, assuming it’s a mistake instead of the actual point of the coffee.
Ohio Is Becoming Sheetz’s Newest Growth Engine
Sheetz didn’t operate a single Columbus-area store before April 2021, and it’s since pushed into Dayton, Cincinnati, and Toledo fast enough that the chain has grown past 800 stores across seven states, with an eighth coming as Sheetz builds into Indiana.
Findlay is the next piece.
Sheetz is building a $169 million distribution center there to support the whole Midwest expansion, set to open in fall 2026 and bring more than 700 jobs to the area.
That single building will restock stores across two or three states at once.
Psst! How much do you know about Sheetz’s history? Take our quiz and see how many you can get right.
Quiz
Sheetz History IQ
Answer these questions on Sheetz’s own history, decades before the touchscreens showed up. We bet you can’t get them all right. Prove us wrong?
In 1952, G. Robert “Bob” Sheetz opened his very first store in Altoona, Pennsylvania, by taking over what kind of business?
Some Ohio Sheetz Stores Double as Truck Stops
Sheetz opened a location in North Baltimore, Ohio, right off Interstate 75, built with 43 truck spaces and seven high-flow diesel lanes instead of the usual handful of pumps.
Overnight parking is allowed there.
A casual visitor picturing every Sheetz as a quick coffee stop has never pulled into a Sheetz built for a trucker running an overnight route between two states.
That store still runs the same MTO touchscreens as a Sheetz two exits down, so a driver logging an overnight haul orders a Shmiscuit off the same screen as a Columbus commuter grabbing breakfast on the way to work.
Those same seven lanes also pump diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), so a trucker never has to hunt down a separate tank off a smaller exit.
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