How much is butter at Kwik Trip today? - Chef's Resource (2024)

FAQs

Does Kwik Trip sell unsalted butter? ›

Ring the bell and spread the news, Dinner Bell Creamery unsalted butter is now available at Kwik Trip! 🔔 Dinner Bell unsalted butter is creamy, delicious and always wrapped with ButterLock to keep the butter fresher longer. 🧈 We're excited to be partnering with Kwik Trip to bring co-op crafted butter to more customers.

In 2000, the Zietlow family became the sole owner of Kwik Trip, Inc. The early 2000s also saw Kwik Trip's expansion on its grab-and-go food offerings, including the introduction of Glazers Donuts, the Hot Spot hot food program, and fresh food such as salads, produce, and sandwiches.

Kwik Trip makes almost all of its products on-site at its 90-acre La Crosse campus. At the Kwik Trip Dairy, workers churn the company's own brand of ice cream, bottle their own milk, and even manufacture their own plastic jugs.

Kwik Trip is a Wisconsin-based convenience store chain. QuikTrip is a Tulsa-based chain. They share many similarities, including high-ranking food offerings in national surveys.

Unsalted butter gives you complete control of the overall flavor of your recipe. This is especially important in certain baked goods where the pure, sweet cream flavor of butter is key (butter cookies or pound cakes). As it pertains to cooking, unsalted butter lets the real, natural flavor of your foods come through.

Light and air are the two main reasons butter goes rancid or spoils when stored outside of the refrigerator.

Kwik Trip main competitors are Lunds & Byerlys, Associated Wholesale Grocers, and Big Lots.

According to Iowa Starting Line, the reason they're called Kwik Stars in Iowa is because there was already a chain of convenience stores called QuikTrip. The Zietlow family, who owns Kwik Trip, did not want their stores confused with QuikTrip, which is why the Kwik Star name was born.

La Crosse-based Kwik Trip announced Wednesday it will acquire Stop-N-Go, a Madison-based convenience store operator. John McHugh, director of public relations at Kwik Trip, said the purchase is part of the company's five-year plan to expand across the Midwest.

"From the time [a banana is] harvested off the tree to the time it's this color, it's in our stores, is typically about a 10-day process," Dale said. That process starts in Guatemala and Colombia in South America. The bananas are shipped to Texas before trucks haul them to La Crosse.

Why is Kwik Trip so good? ›

Delivering Fresh Daily

With our own Bakery, Kitchens, Dairy, Distribution and Transportation divisions, we produce much of what we serve ourselves and deliver it right to your local store every day, so you always get fresh, quality products.

These pies are prepped fresh in our La Crosse kitchens, frozen and delivered to your local store, and come hot from your oven. So there you have it. Pothole® Pizza.

In 15 counties, you couldn't get further than a 30 minute drive from a Kwik Trip franchise even if you tried. But despite the brand's ubiquity, no Kwik Trip location exists within the city limits of Milwaukee, due to the cost of land.

These stores are located in 17 states and territories and 370 cities. The state with the most QuikTrip locations is Texas, with 270 stores. This is about 28% of all QuikTrip locations in the United States. The city with the most QuikTrip locations is Tulsa, with 48 locations.

Similar to other recent food supply challenges, the ongoing butter shortage was created by a perfect storm of extreme weather patterns and a shifting economic landscape. The record-high heat last summer caused cows to produce less milk, while simultaneously demand increased for dairy-based products.

As you might have already guessed, there's only one key difference between the two: salted butter contains added salt, while unsalted butter does not. Despite this simple distinction, there are certain benefits to each type of butter and specific uses that one is better suited for than the other.

Substitutes for Unsalted Butter

If you find your fridge empty in the butter department or can't tolerate dairy, you can swap it completely with these butter replacements. For 1 cup unsalted butter, substitute 1 cup shortening, ⅞ cup (that's 14 Tbsp. or ¾ cup plus 2 Tbsp.) vegetable oil, or ⅞ cup lard.

THE GOOD COW Company - Pure A2+ Artisan Unsalted White Butter - 100% Natural - Tasty & Delicious (250 Grams)