Well, friends, neighbors, and members of Fishing Stages Forum, if you don’t have a Buccee’s near you now, just wait, you are likely to shortly!
I want to tell a personal antidote before going into the biography of these two entrepreneurs.

When I began as a novice stockbroker with Merrill Lynch back in the early 1980’s, I cold-called Arch Beaver Apin III. This first call went well, and I felt he could become a good prospect as an investor! We left it that I would call back with some suggestions for him to consider investing.
Well, a few weeks passed, and I called again. Arch was out of pocket and whoever the kid was I was calling had little or no knowledge, or pretended he didn’t, so I forgot about Arch and Buckee’s as an investor, much to my later regret. After all, there are loads of one service station owners in Houston.

At present there are 41 Bucees’s spread across the U.S. The company has brought its one-of-a-kind travel centers to other states like Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. At this moment, a new Buccee’s is being prepared to open in Colorado.
The Buccee’s empire was built by two Texans and is now worth over $500 million. Arch Beaver Apin III is a graduate of Texas A. & M.

They opened their first Buccee’s in Lake Jackson in 1982, featuring cheap ice and clean restrooms. Their expansion was slow at first, but it is gaining speed.
I recall in my tour with Humble Oil and Refining Company, (now Exxon) we always insisted on ‘clean restrooms’.

I do know that, at least in Texas, the regular unleaded gasoline sold by Buccee’s has no ethanol. I don’t know how they do it, but I prefer their blend of gasoline.

While there are no sales of shares of Buccee’s stock today, eventually this will be a hot item. When and if, they decide to
venture into the frozen north, keep your eyes open for that opportunity. Just Sayin…RJS