kwik trip employee appreciation week

Co-Worker Recognition Center

Kwik Trip, Inc. operates under the core values of honesty and integrity, respect, excellence, humility, innovation, and a roll-up-your-sleeves work ethic. Our stores welcome millions of guests each week and we want every one of them to find what they need and be happy that they stopped. We know and appreciate that our co-workers are responsible for our success now and in the future.

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• Mission Rewards
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• Retirement Awards
• Safety in the Workplace

Our family owners believe strongly that if they take care of our co-workers, our co-workers can better take care of our guests. Thank you for being a part of our award-winning team!

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Our coworkers. They’re the reason for our growth and success. Without their energy, passion, commitment, and hard work, Kwik Trip wouldn’t be where it is today. It’s why we’re proud to take care of our coworkers in the same way they take care of our guests and our stores. So, in addition to providing a fun and fast-paced work environment with flexible scheduling and advancement opportunities, we’re proud to offer benefits and perks second to none. Afterall, they earn it and deserve it.

Benefits available for all coworkers

Here's a list of other great benefits all our coworkers receive

• Get paid every day through Kwik Pay
• Kwik Trip Family Scholarships and Professional Development Program
• Bi-weekly car wash (Retail locations only)*
• 50% off Discounted Lunch (Retail locations only)
• Free coffee, soda, and piece of fruit while you work
• Dental, vision, disability, and life insurance plans
• Cancer, accident and critical illness supplemental plans
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Vacation benefits and holiday premium pay
• Premium pay for 3rd shift hours (Retail and several Support Center departments)
• Opportunity for wage increases after 90 days and annually for hourly coworkers. Five months and annually for salaried coworkers.
• 4-week paid sabbatical at 20 years of service
• Health Plan options for part time and full time coworkers
• Adoption Assistance Program

Additional Benefits For Full-Time Coworkers

• Ability to choose the health plan that suits your needs
• Wellness Program: option to lower health plan premiums
• Transparency of Claims
• Supportive and informative resources through our Care Navigation Services
• Virtual Care
• Smart Healthcare Consumer Incentives
• Tax savings opportunities through Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for medical and dependent care
• Kwik Trip funds your life insurance
• Disability pay for you when life’s bumps get in the way 
• Paid time off while you are sick
• Bereavement pay
• Working with people you love while making a difference in people’s lives
• Gaining a work family

Kwik Trip offers a fun place to work and a meaningful way to serve

Kwik trip employees take care of their guests, and kwik trip takes care of its employees..

KwikTrip is on a mission. The family-owned business aims to differentiate itself by “treating our customers, coworkers and our suppliers as we personally would like to be treated and make a difference in someone’s life.”

Embodying that mission, employees offer an incredibly high level of service to customers and communities throughout Wisconsin. It’s service with a smile, taken to the extreme.

That service doesn’t go unnoticed. Through a unique profit-sharing program, the company makes sure to reward its employees by giving an impressive 40% of pre-tax profits back to them as an annual bonus. Last year, all co-workers received 10% of their annual earnings as a cash bonus.

Other benefits for full-time workers include company-sponsored health and dental plans, life insurance, a health savings account, vacation benefits and sick pay. Kwik Trip also contributes directly to employees’ retirement plans to help them build future savings, and gave every co-worker a 4.2% deposit into their 401K retirement plan last year.

A number of additional financial incentives encourage employees to think of their employment with Kwik Trip as a true career with long-term potential for advancement. For example, workers are eligible for a pay increase after their first 90 days and then additional increases annually. Co-workers who stay with the company for 20 years enjoy a paid four-week sabbatical.

Outside of the impressive financial benefits, Kwik Trip also goes above and beyond to make the workplace an enjoyable place to spend time and to build cohesive teams that get along well. The company operates under the core values of honesty and integrity, respect, excellence, humility, innovation and work ethic. Co-workers who uphold those values and high standards will encounter success after success during their time with Kwik Trip.

To further develop the company’s culture of camaraderie, co-workers can also take advantage of offerings like free coffee, soda and fruit while they work as a small token of the company’s appreciation.

In addition to the company supporting its employees, co-workers also take impressive steps to support each other. Through a nonprofit program called Families Helping Families, KwikTrip co-workers facing unexpected challenges can request financial assistance through the program.

Anyone interested in joining the team can learn more about the company’s recruiting efforts at the Kwik Trip careers website . Job seekers may be surprised to learn about the wide range of jobs available, from distribution and transportation to food service co-workers to corporate opportunities to information technology workers. There are also food service and retail leadership positions available.

Kwik Trip’s philosophy is simple: the better the company can take care of their employees, the better their employees can take care of their guests. Named as one of Mkilwaukee’s Top Workplaces, that philosophy has clearly paid off.

For more information on working at Kwik Trip or to find your nearest Kwik Trip store, visit kwiktrip.com .

Kwik Trip serves 11.5 million customers a week at 872 stores. A by-the-numbers look at how that happens

K wik Trip's meteoric growth is hardly a secret − the La Crosse-based convenience store chain has doubled its locations in less than 10 years and now operates 872 stores in six states and employs about 38,000 people.

The company welcomes 11.5 million customers a week ‒ Kwik Trip likes to call them guests ‒ many of whom are regular customers drawn by the company's consistency across locations, its savvy social media presence and the friendliness of its employees.

Behind that success is a well-oiled machine, one that's responsible for the daily presence of Glazers and a host of Kwickery sweet treats, Nature's Touch milk and ice cream, the Hot Spot, ready to eat meals, salads and all the other items that help to set Kwik Trip apart from its competitors.

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Almost 8,000 people work at Kwik Trip's 140-acre food production campus in La Crosse, producing those items and delivering them six days a week.

Here's a look at some of the numbers behind the operation:

A dairy that's more than just milk

About 15 trucks a day arrived at Kwik Trip's dairy last year from farms that are all within 150 miles of La Crosse, bringing in 4.8 million pounds of raw milk a day. The milk is pasteurized and homogenized five days a week.

Last year, Kwik Trip stores sold 25 million gallons of milk, but that's just one product made by the company's 150 dairy employees.

Fat removed from the milk is used to produce 8,000 gallons of ice cream a day in 24 rotating flavors.

The dairy also produces and packages non-dairy bottled drinks including orange juice and iced tea.

A bottle factory with a secret

Kwik Trip's DIY approach to food production and transportation includes a bottle factory within the 220,000-square-foot dairy that makes a range of bottles from pints to gallons.

Last year the company made more than 65 million jugs and bottles.

Each includes an imprinted reproduction of a smiley face that former CEO Don Zietlow used to draw when he announced employees profit sharing payments at the company's annual meetings. They can be hard to find on many bottles, but pop out readily on the bottoms of chocolate and strawberry

Millions of Kwik Trip Glazers

The Kwikery Bake shop cranked out about 45 million Glazer doughnuts in 2023. One way to picture that: Laid out end to end that could make a doughnut highway extending coast to coast.

Each box is hand-packed because the doughnuts are too fragile to be handled by machines.

And that's just one part of the story of Kwik Trip's sweets bakery. Other products made by the bakery's 320 employees include:

• Up to 275,000 Persians, Bismarks, and Long Johns a day.
• Up to 250,000 cookies a day
• 5 million cinnamon rolls a year

The sweets bakery is just one baking operation

Kwik Trip has a separate bakery for bread and rolls, where 117 people make 225 loaves of bread a minute and an astonishing 1,600 buns a minute.

That adds up to more than 170 million buns and 15 million packages of bread a year.

10 million pizzas a year is just a start

Pizza is just one of a host of items produced in Kwik Trip's commissary, where about 700 employees make burritos, take-home meals, salads, sandwiches, and ready-to-eat items for the stores' Hot Spots.

They also make Cheese Mountain pizzas - lots of them. Last year, the total was 10 million pies produced on a line that can make up to 50,000 pizzas a day. There's space and a plan to double that.

There will be no burrito shortage at Kwik Trip

A recent expansion of the company's burrito line doubled its capacity to about 90,000 burritos a day.

Hundreds of drivers deliver fresh food and more daily

Delivering fresh food, frozen products and everything else to stores six days a week means trucks and drivers, and Kwik Trip's got them.

Keeping the stores stocked is the work of 600 drivers who deliver products to retail locations with a fleet of 350 tractors and 250 trailers.

Not all of Kwik Trip's food and drinks make it to the customer

It's not uncommon for food businesses to sometimes have surpluses and Kwik Trip is no exception.

The company's retail operations partner with 14 regional food banks that received about 4 million pounds of food in 2023 and more than 20 million pounds of food since 2011.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Kwik Trip serves 11.5 million customers a week at 872 stores. A by-the-numbers look at how that happens