Article: Convenience Stores Searching for Innovative Ways to Boost Low Fuel Margins; Hot Stuff Foods Expanding to Packaged Food Category to Help C-Store Operators Make up Lost Revenues.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- High gas prices are not only affecting consumers, they are also troubling the retailers selling the fuel to consumers.

Many of these retailers are convenience store operators who are searching for new avenues of revenue, including foodservice sales, within their locations to make up for low margins on fuel and decreasing tobacco sales.

Hot Stuff Foods(TM), an international foodservice franchisor, has recently launched a new food solutions program, called Mac's Market(TM), designed specifically for smaller retail environments, especially c-stores. To achieve this move to restaurant-quality packaged foods, the company invested ...

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