Editor’s note: A previous version of this article misidentified the closest Royal Farms store to the new Sheetz location. This article has been updated with a Royal Farms location that is closer.
Maryland has long been known as Royal Farms territory—the now-CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore City even bore the RoFo name for several years.
But this week, Pennsylvania brand Sheetz is expanding their reach with their first-ever Baltimore County location.
Sheetz, the convenience store and gas station chain, will open a new store on Thursday at 10499 Campbell Boulevard in Middle River.
It will join the more than 750 stores that Sheetz already operates across Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, and Michigan. Sheetz currently has Maryland stores in Carroll, Frederick, Harford, and Washington counties. All locations are open 24/7, 365 days a year.
Many Mid-Atlantic motorists have strong loyalties to one convenience store brand or another, even going out of their way to visit their favorite over a competitor.
The closest location for Baltimore-based Royal Farms to the Middle River store is half a mile away at 11905 Market Way in Middle River. Wawa (which, like Sheetz, is a Pennsylvania-based brand) has its closest location at 8731 Pulaski Highway in Rosedale.
To mark the opening of its newest store, Sheetz will hold a grand opening celebration starting at 9 a.m. Thursday, with prizes including free Sheetz for a Year in the form of a $2,500 Sheetz gift card to a winner age 18 or older. The store will open at 8 a.m. with free self-serve coffee and soda all day, and there will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10:45 a.m.
Sheetz will donate $2,500 to the Maryland Food Bank. Customers who bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the nonprofit will receive a Sheetz-branded item (one per customer while supplies last from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.)
The company will also donate $2,500 to the Special Olympics of Maryland.
Sheetz was ranked ninth in this year’s “Companies that Care” list by Great Place to Work and PEOPLE magazine, ranked third in the latest “Best Workplaces in Retail” list by Fortune, and named a “Best Regional Fast Food Chain” by USA TODAY’s 10Best Readers’ Choice travel awards.
