Buc - ee 's - wikipedia Buc - ee 's Buc - ee 's Type Private Industry Retail ( Convenience store ) Founded 1982 Founder Arch `` Beaver '' Aplin III and Don Wasek Headquarters Lake Jackson, Texas, U.S. Number of locations 40 Products Fuel, coffee, beverages, beef jerky, snacks, car wash, prepared foods, and specialty gifts Website www.buc-ees.com Buc - ee 's is a chain of convenience stores located in the Central, North, South, and Southeast regions of Texas. The company is owned by Arch `` Beaver '' Aplin III and Don Wasek and has its headquarters in Lake Jackson, Texas. The chain is famous for its logo depicting a beaver. Contents 1 History 2 Products 3 Lawsuits 4 Advertising 5 References 6 External links History Co-Founders `` Beaver '' Aplin and Don Wasek opened the first store, which is still open as of 2017, in Lake Jackson, Texas in 1982. Aplin formed the name Buc - ee 's by combining his childhood nickname and the name of his Labrador Retriever, Buck. Buc - ee 's expanded and opened their first travel center in Luling, Texas in 2001. Buc - ee 's are large stores ( no 18 wheelers allowed ) with fuel pumps that range from 80 - 120 fueling positions for gas and diesel ( some stores include Ethanol Free and DEF ) and a huge selection of beef jerky, pastries, fresh sandwiches, tacos, Dippin ' Dots and homemade fudge. In 2012, Buc - ee 's opened its largest travel center in New Braunfels, Texas on Interstate 35. The New Braunfels store is the largest convenience store in the world at 68,000 square feet. The store features 120 fueling positions, 83 toilets, 31 cash registers, 4 Icee machines, and 80 fountain dispensers. It also offers tubing and water gear for enjoying the nearby Guadalupe River. The New Braunfels, Texas store was named the 2012 `` Best Restroom in America '' by Cintas. The first Buc - ee 's in North Texas Metroplex opened in Terrell, Texas on June 22, 2015. The travel center is located across the street from Tanger Outlets. The Tanger Factory Outlet centers is located three miles east of Buc - ee 's on Interstate 20. The second Buc - ee 's in the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex area opened on May 23, 2016. The location is located in far northern Fort Worth, across the street from Texas Motor Speedway. The third DFW location is scheduled to open in Denton, Texas in 2018. On March 8th, 2016, Buc - ee 's announced a possible first location outside of the state of Texas would be located in Baton Rouge, LA. The location was expected to open in early 2017, however, on October 4, 2016, Buc - ee 's announced that the plans for the Baton Rouge location had been terminated. On April 12, 2017, Buc - ee 's announced that it will open their first convenience store / gas station outside of Texas in Daytona Beach, Florida. The travel center is scheduled to open in 2018 and will be located on the north side of LPGA Boulevard across from Tanger Outlets, just east of Interstate 95 and immediately west of Stonewood Grill & Tavern ( formerly Vince Carter 's ). At 50,000 square feet with 120 fueling positions the Daytona Beach travel center will be the largest in Florida and the largest outside of Texas. Buc - ee 's in Terrell, Texas Products Buc - ee 's offers products found at most convenience stores such as fuel, cigarettes, tobacco, chips, drinks, and soft drinks at their smaller neighborhood stores. Travel centers include a deli, coffee shop, exterior tunnel car washes, Texas - themed specialty gifts and food, and products catering to hunters and river rafters. All Buc - ee 's are open 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Buc - ee 's offers private labeled beef jerky, novelty candy, trail mixes, granola, pralines, jarred vegetables, preserves, and salsa. Their # 1 branded product is caramel and butter - glazed corn puffs known as ' Beaver Nuggets. ' Lawsuits In recent years, during the company 's rapidly growing success, Buc - ee 's has filed numerous lawsuits against other convenience store chains, most of them based out of Texas, for alleged logo infringement. In 2014, Buc - ee 's filed a lawsuit against Texas based convenience store chain `` Frio Beaver. Frio Beaver, a company with a logo also depicting a beaver in a yellow circle with a black outline, was accused of attempting to copy the iconic Buc - ee 's beaver head logo, which the company is widely known for in Texas. In 2016, Buc - cee 's sued `` Choke Canyon BBQ '', another Texas convenience store, for logo infringement. Choke Canyon uses a logo of a grinning alligator in the middle of a yellow circle, which Buc - ee 's claims is an attempt by the chain to resemble the Buc - ee 's logo. In 2017, Buc - cee 's again filed a lawsuit for logo infringement, this time against a Nebraska based convenience store chain known as `` Bucky 's ''. There was also a non-logo related lawsuit filed in 2013 against `` Chicks '', a convenience store located in Bryan Texas, for allegedly copying Buc - ee 's mega convenience store designs and layout. The case was settled out of court. Advertising This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2015 ) Buc - ee 's is known for posting billboards by Texas ( and beginning in 2018, Florida ) interstate highways with simple and humorous slogans. `` If It Harms Beavers, We 're Against It ! '' `` Clean Restrooms, We Guaranpee It '' `` No dancing the two - step in our restroom '' `` It 's A Beaver ! '' `` Restrooms So Clean, We Leave Mints on the Urinals '' `` Ice, Beer, Jerky : The 3 Food Groups '' `` The Top Two Reasons to Stop at Buc - ee 's : # 1 and # 2 '' `` A Bigger Kolache I Never Sausage a Thing '' `` Do n't worry, P happy '' `` Epic Flush '' `` Do n't stay thirsty my friends. '' `` Worth the Wait '' `` The Eyes of Buc - ee 's Are Upon You '' `` Buy a gift, leave a gift. '' `` Do n't pass our gas ! '' References Jump up ^ `` Made In Texas : The Buc - ee 's Success Story ''. TexasMonthly.com. 2013 - 02 - 26. Retrieved 2015 - 06 - 04. Jump up ^ Buc - ee 's New Braunfels Bathroom is America 's Best EON : Enhanced Online News Jump up ^ Cokely, Kevin ( 2016 - 05 - 19 ). `` Buc - ee 's Fort Worth to Open Monday NBC 5 Dallas - Fort Worth ''. Nbcdfw.com. Retrieved 2016 - 06 - 27. Jump up ^ Park, Clayton ( 2017 - 04 - 12 ). `` Texas - sized Buc - ee 's to put 1st Florida gas station in Daytona ''. The Daytona Beach News - Journal. Retrieved 2017 - 04 - 13. Jump up ^ http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Buc-ees-sues-rival-Texas-convenience-store-5625832.php Jump up ^ http://austin.blog.statesman.com/2016/07/21/buc-ees-is-suing-a-rival-chain-for-copying-its-beaver-logo/, Jump up ^ http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Buc-ee-s-sues-long-time-rival-for-expansion-to-11005165.php Jump up ^ http://www.cspdailynews.com/industry-news-analysis/corporate-news/articles/chicks-hatching-plot-be-buc-ees Jump up ^ http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Buc-ees-sues-rival-Texas-convenience-store-5625832.php External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buc - ee 's. Company website Buc - ee 's Facebook page Buc - ee 's in New Braunfels vying for best restrooms in America, KHOU.com, September 2, 2012. Miguel Bustillo, Roadside Stopper : Can Something Be Too Big in Texas ?, Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2012. 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Question: when did the first buc ee's open
Answer: 1982