Petro Stopping Center

This place always has truck parking available. We have always been able to find a spot up close as well.

The store has everything a trucker could need like GPS, discount movies, audiobooks, CDs, medicine, bath products, and even had Valentine's Day items available like chocolate, teddy bears an gigantic cards. Lots of souvenirs for Ohio and Indiana. Bobbi and Kaitlyn were fantastic in assisting me with my Valentine's Day needs and I was very surprised at the level of help and service they provided. Thanks ladies! ;)

The Iron Skillet was pretty typical. This is not five star food, y'all. This is biscuit and gravy, fried chicken, chicken fried steak and hamburger kinda food. It will be greasy, but it's cheap and will do the job. The waitresses were friendly and always kept our drinks refilled. What more could you ask for in a truck stop restaurant?

The restaurant also makes their own homemade fudge and the store had a nice clearance section full of 3$ headphones and electronic extras.

This particular Petro also had a Verizon Wireless stand, a game room, CB shop, laundry and a small movie room with plenty of seating.

Don't miss the massaging chair! 5$ for 15 minutes. You'll barely be able to walk afterwards but what can ya do?

Overall, pretty stellar truck stop even if you have to go through two states to get into it.

Imagine a plate full of the scraps from other people's tables and you can imagine my meal.

I was looking for some home cooking and I didn't want to have to clean up after myself.  I've been to a number of truck stops all over the country and they're usually good.

Here, the wait staff was friendly, even though they were probably very tired.

I looked over the menu and ordered the Steak Tips and Gravy.  I thought that $8.49 was expensive but it was one of the cheaper menu items.  She mentioned that I could get soup and salad for $2.79 more, I believe.  I declined.  The salad bar didn't look particularly good and I'm not really much for those anyway.

My food arrived and I noticed that the steak tips were tough when cutting them.  I almost choked or one or two pieces.  Then, I noticed something different.  Some were well done and others were rare, possibly with every state of cooking in-between.  The mashed potatoes were crusty and the texas toast on the bottom was okay.

Still, it felt like they had taken my meal from several plates and pieced it together, as though several people didn't finish their steak and they cut off the remains.

Once again, the service was good but the food was not.  The store had typical convenience store items, plus a number of electrical devices for use while traveling, and a number of audio books and DVDs.  The prices were a bit high, considering that Walmart, CVS, etc. were close.

$11.43 for the meal with drink seemed expensive also, especially given the food.  MCL didn't seem a bad option afterwards.  I tipped, mainly because I doubt they could be making any money with the ridiculous wait staff minimum wage.

Fast pumps, an easy on/off from I-70 and reasonable gas prices.  The exit is technically in Indiana, but it's Ohio after about 10 seconds.  This trip, Ohio gas prices were about 10 cents less a gallon, so we were holding out for the state line.

Also, the upgrade to premium gas was about 25 cents/gallon, much better than the 30-35 we saw at many stations along the highway.