As Nashville prepares for its first Wawa, a local newspaper gives them a crash course on what they’ll be in for. Mandy Hoskison and C.A. Bridge unwrapped this story for the Nashville Tennessean.

 “People have gotten married at a Wawa. There are songs about it. People get tattoos. Whenever a new location opens up, teeming crowds gather for a near-Mardi Gras experience — [as] if the French Quarter had a bank of gas stations in the middle,” they write.

And Wawa eats it up.

“We are always grateful and treasure these moments more than anything — from customers lining up to be first in the door of a brand new store or traveling to every store across a state …” said Wawa Public Relations manager Lori Bruce.

The first Nashville location opens in 2025, joining nearly 1,000 Wawa stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and Washington, D.C.

The corporate heads are actually asking Tennesseans where they’d like to see the Wawa store go, taking suggestions online.

Read more at the Nashville Tennessean about how the locals are learning about this thing called Wawa.