Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, doing business as Love's (or stylized as Loves), is an American family-owned chain of more than 500
truck stop and
convenience store
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s in 41 states in the United States. The company is privately owned and headquartered in
Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma
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. Love's ranked No. 17 on the 2019 Forbes list of America's largest private companies.
Love's has two primary kinds of stores: country stores and travel stops. Country stores are fueling stations with a convenience store attached. The larger travel stops are located along highways and offer additional amenities such as food from restaurant chains such as
Arby's,
Baskin-Robbins,
Bojangles,
Burger King
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,
Chester's
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,
Dairy Queen,
Del Taco,
Dunkin',
Friendly's,
Godfather's Pizza,
Green Burrito,
McDonald's,
Taco John's,