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Sheetz chain taps Travis Sheetz as CEO

December 29, 2021

Restaurant and convenience chain Sheetz has named Travis Sheetz as president and CEO.

Travis Sheetz is the nephew of founder Bob Sheetz, the former president and first COO in the company's 69 year history, according to a press release.

Travis Sheetz will succeed his brother, Joe, in the executive role effective Jan. 2022.

"Over the past 69 years, Sheetz has grown dramatically from a small dairy store in Pennsylvania to one of the fastest growing family-owned convenience retailers with more than 600 locations across six states," Joe Sheetz said in the release. "Through Travis' leadership, I am confident Sheetz will continue to grow and innovate to not only meet the needs of customers on-the-go but give customers the next level of convenience they didn't even know existed."

Sheetz was founded as a family business in 1952 when Bob Sheetz purchased one of his father's dairy stores in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The second Sheetz store opened in 1963 and today the company serves more than 1.5 million customers a day in its 639 store locations across Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and Maryland.