Exit 5 In North Augusta Gets Another Convenience Store

This low-country chain is expanding into Augusta, as well as Aiken and North Augusta. Parker's Kitchen has a store open now in Augusta and Aiken, and the Jefferson Davis Highway at 520 is set to open soon in North Augusta.

Now, Exit 5 in North Augusta gets one. Just down from the QT, Parker's will be located on the corner of Edgefield Road and Ascauga Lake Road. Construction should begin in late June or early July this year.

The first Parker's in our area is at the intersection of Windsor Spring Rd. and Tobacco Rd in Augusta. According to their website-

The new Parker’s Kitchen will offer popular grab-and-go options as well as a hot bar serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily and convenient electronic kiosk ordering. Highlights will include never-frozen, antibiotic-free, double-breaded Southern Fried Chicken Tenders, signature mac ‘n’ cheese and potato logs as well as freshly made salads, gourmet coffee, freshly brewed sweet tea, Fancy Lemonade, 28-degree beer, fountain drinks with Chewy Ice and a wide range of convenience items. The new store will offer regular, diesel, and non-ethanol fuel at six fueling positions.

Parker’s Kitchen items are prepared fresh on-site and are available seven days a week. The entire menu in Augusta will be handcrafted on-site from the freshest ingredients by Parker’s Kitchen chefs who take pride in cooking for the communities where they live and work.    

The Exit 5 area is rapidly growing, with rumors of another grocery store coming to the area, as well as new apartments next to the QT convenience store.

There are currently 7 convenience stores within a 2-mile area at Exit 5. This seems to be one of the fastest growing areas right now, including a new addition of 400 homes being added to the area.

What are the best road trip snacks? Its vacation season, which means more road trips. Of course we know you can't take a trip without snacks. Thats one of the best parts of the trip, stopping at a convenience store and grabbing something for the road. But what do you get? Thats always a tough decision for me. I'll wander around for way longer than I should trying to figure out what I want.

SWNS came up with this list of the best road trip snacks, and I want to see if we agree with them or not. According to SWNS' list junk food type stuff was on top of the list, well of course. However, some healthier options did make the list as well. I just don't know if a road trip is the proper time to try and eat healthy. If you can do it, more power to you.

According to the article, people want to stop about every 3 hours and grab food or snacks or something. That sounds about right. I mean we're probably stopping for a bathroom break anyway, so you might as well grab a snack or a drink or something right?

Before we get into the list, there was another thing I found interesting. More people would rather drive than fly. Not me! If I could, I'd fly everywhere. You get there so much faster, and you can still bring snacks on the plane. If you'd like to check out the full list and article from SWNS, just click here

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Lets see if you agree with this list of the best road trip snacks.

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47% of people said that chips of some sort was their favorite road trip snack. I can agree with that.

Right under chips came chocolate. My wife would agree with this one. The only downfall is, you have to eat it pretty quick or else it will melt.

If I'm being honest, I think I'd put cookies over chocolate. Only because they are less likely to melt.

Any form of nuts or seeds was next on the list. I'm going to assume peanuts or sunflower seeds is most likely what they're referring to.

This is usually my go to. I'll usually do some form of a gummy candy and some chips of some sort. I guess its the whole sweet and salty thing.