Thorntons stores remain open to serve our guests and provide fuel and other basic needs to Emergency Service Providers, health care workers and other essential business workers. We also recognize many community members are personally and economically impacted by temporary shutdowns and travel restrictions. To help our communities and to continue to serve our guests, Thorntons is hiring part-time temporary contingent workers at all of our locations during this challenging time.

Every Thorntons guest is a valued guest and your health and safety are important to us. We always have and always will work hard every day to make sure you can count on our stores to be clean and safe places to stop for your on-the-go needs. In light of growing concerns over COVID-19, we want you to know that we are increasing our already high standards to continue to operate our stores and provide great guest service when you need us most.

Nashville-area Thorntons stores will offer designated items free of charge to guests while supplies last though the weekend. Residents and local relief workers are invited to stop by designated stores to pick up items.

In celebration of opening the company’s 200th store, Thorntons LLC is pledging up to $200,000 to help feed the hungry. Donations will come from the sale of a new 24 ounce limited edition coffee cup that will be introduced in all stores on Wednesday. The company will donate 20 cents from each limited edition cup sold to hunger relief organizations in the communities where it operates.

As a first in the company’s history, Thorntons LLC opens two new locations in one day for a total of 200 stores in six states. We are proud to open these state of the art Travel Centers in Monee, IL and Cicero, IL. The stores will open on Thursday afternoon, December 19 with grand opening celebrations and ribbon cutting events to follow on Friday, December 20. These openings bring the company’s total new stores in 2019 to nine, six of which opened in Illinois over the past three months.