Phil and Amy Mauland checked out the deals at the new Marshall Kwik Trip location on opening day. The Kwik Trip at the corner of West Main Street and U.S. Highway 59 features a convenience store and a diesel fuel canopy.

MARSHALL — Marshall’s second Kwik Trip location opened its doors bright and early Thursday morning. And area residents like Jackie Johnson were waiting to get in.

“I really do like Kwik Trips. I’m a fan,” Johnson said Thursday. Johnson said she left her home not long after 4 a.m., and stood outside the new Kwik Trip at the corner of West Main Street and U.S. Highway 59, waiting for it to open.

“It’s kind of all in fun,” Johnson said. When a Kwik Trip opened on East College Drive in Marshall in January, she had joked with her family about being the first person in the door. Johnson ended up oversleeping, and missed her chance. This time around, “I was like, ‘I’m getting up. I’m going,'” she said.

Johnson bought rolls and took a selfie with a Kwik Trip flier to show family she was the first paying customer at the new location.

The new Kwik Trip was built at the former site of the Cattoor gas station at the corner of West Main and Highway 59. The Kwik Trip features a convenience store with over 9,000 square feet of space, said Dean George, real estate development manager for Kwik Trip. While the store and gas station are pretty similar to the Kwik Trip location on East College Drive, the new location does have some additional features.

“I think the thing people will notice that is different is there is a separate canopy for diesel fuel,” George said. The new Kwik Trip is located on a bigger lot, and it’s also near two highways and close to Marshall’s industrial park. Those factors all made it a good fit for a diesel canopy, he said. “The traffic patterns told us it would be nice to have at this location.”

Micheala Urban, store leader at the new Kwik Trip, said business had been pretty steady Thursday morning.

“We had a group of about nine or 10 people right away,” Urban said.

One of the customers who visited Kwik Trip early in the morning was Karisa Varpness. Varpness said she went to the new store around 5:30 a.m., together with her daughter Kaleigh.

Having the new Kwik Trip would fill a need on the west side of Marshall, customers said. Varpness said her family also liked the food at Kwik Trip. “It’s always fresh,” she said.

The service was another good thing about the chain, Johnson said. “They have some of the friendliest people working there I’ve ever met,” she said.

A ribbon cutting for the new location is planned for Nov. 22, George said.

“We’re happy to be in Marshall,” George said. “I think the community has received us very well.”