Toot’n Totum Grows Texas Footprint With New Stores, Foodservice Programs

The chain is expanding in Lubbock, adding travel centers and growing its proprietary foodservice offerings.

Toot’n Totum has been rapidly expanding in the Lubbock, Texas, area, opening 10 new-to-industry (NTI) stores there over the past three years, as well as another NTI store in Lamesa, Texas, that opened in 2026. It has three NTI stores slated for 2027, with six more on the docket — three in the design phase, and three potential purchases. Two of those stores will be travel centers.

The chain currently operates 16 travel centers that span 7,600 square feet and feature high-speed diesel and trucker amenities. Its Stratford, Texas truck stop was honored this February as “the No. 1 Truck Stop in America,” by Trucker Path.

The NTI stores feature the chain’s Gen-3 prototype, which measures 5,200 square feet and includes a modern design, expanded grab-and-go food section and a larger checkout area to enhance its drive-through operations.

**“**Every store will always be accompanied with a drive-through operation for the convenience of our guests,” said Andrew Mitchell, CEO and president of Toot’n Totum and a third-generation member of the family business.

The drive-through concept ties into Toot’n Totum’s values of quick, clean and convenient. Guests can order anything from the drive-through except for refills, lottery, prepaid fuel or money orders.

Toot’n Totum is also committed to refreshing legacy sites and has completed 10 remodels in the last two years. In Q4, it plans to remodel four stores and complete cooler upgrades in another 12 sites.

The chain is simultaneously prioritizing fresh grab-and-go and proprietary food programs, matching the right food menu with the needs and preferences of each community.

The chain uses a centralized kitchen three miles from the company’s headquarters in Amarillo, Texas. The centralized kitchen acts as its commissary, delivering fresh grab-and-go foods to the stores under the chain’s proprietary Fast’n Fresh brand. That includes items like fresh-made sandwiches, salads, burritos and subs, parfaits and breakfast burritos. Brick & Elm, an Amarillo lifestyle magazine recognized Toot’n Totum’s Fast’n Fresh Breakfast Burritos as the winner of its 2026 Convenience Store Breakfast Burrito Tour.

The chain also offers a number of proprietary foodservice offerings. Seven stores feature its Mitch’s Texas Style BBQ program. New this year, the chain is also compiling the fixings for Mitch’s brisket sandwiches in the centralized kitchen and delivering the ingredients to stores without the full concept so they can make the brisket sandwiches fresh at the stores.

Some 64 sites offer the chain’s Red’s Pizza concept, which launched in 2024. It also offers a proprietary Oasis Tea program, which is a fresh-brewed tea offering, at 14 sites with plans to expand that to 30 locations by the end of the year.

Most recently, Toot’n Totum introduced a new Jacket Potato concept, beginning at two c-store sites and a standalone location. The chain also offers order ahead, third-party delivery, as well as bean-to-cup coffee at 75% of sites.