COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Sheetz is adding to the company’s list of Ohio convenience stores and gas stations with the opening of two new Columbus-area locations on Tuesday.

The chain is welcoming patrons beginning at 9 a.m. for the locations opening at 1555 Polaris Parkway near Polaris Fashion Place and 5757 W. Broad St. in Galloway, marking Sheetz’s first station there.

Sheetz is hosting a grand opening event for the Polaris Parkway location on Tuesday, while the Galloway location is holding a celebration on Wednesday. The festivities are beginning outside their respective stores at 9 a.m. with prizes awarded to attendees, including a giveaway of free Sheetz for a year.

Each store’s official ribbon-cutting ceremony is set for 10:45 a.m. during the events. To celebrate, Sheetz is treating customers to a full day of free self-serve coffee and fountain drinks. This deal is only available on the day of each store’s event.

Sheetz is welcoming patrons for the locations opening at 1555 Polaris Parkway near Polaris Fashion Place and 5757 W. Broad St. in Galloway. (Courtesy Photo/Sheetz)

In honor of these openings, Sheetz is providing separate $2,500 donations to the NNEMAP Food Pantry and the Westland Ecumenical Community Food Pantry. Customers attending the openings can donate nonperishable food items, with those at Polaris Parkway supporting NNEMAP and those at the Galloway event supporting Westland Ecumenical Community.

Those who donate are receiving a Sheetz-branded thermal bag, limit one per customer while supplies last from 9 to 11 a.m. Sheetz is also making a donation of $5,000 to the Special Olympics of Ohio. 

The new central Ohio Sheetz adds to the chain’s more than 770 convenience stores and gas stations across Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina. Sheetz announced its expansion into central Ohio in 2019, opening the first location in Delaware in 2021.

Several Columbus-area restaurants have been bulldozed to make way for Sheetz stores. The chain took over a former Max and Erma’s property at 7480 Sawmill Road in Dublin to build a new location that opened last December. Another Max and Erma’s at 4279 Cemetery Road in Hilliard was demolished in 2021 after the restaurant had been closed for more than a year, with the site now home to a Sheetz.

The gas station also purchased the site of Woody’s Wing House at 161 E. Campus View Boulevard for $3,750,000, then opened a location in May 2024. Rezoned to house a gas station, the two-acre site was also home to a former Champps restaurant and began operating as a Woody’s location in 2018.