Wawa Day Brings Free Coffee, New Store Announcements

If you live in Philly, you know that Wawa is part of the cultural landscape. It’s just like the pretzels, the cheesesteaks, the “wooder ice,” and the jawns – Wawa is a thing in the City of Brotherly Love. Chances are that you don’t live far from one, so you get your morning coffee there. If you live in the suburbs, it’s where you pick up gas. What’s not to love about the bizarrely-named convenience store chain? They’ve got those delicious sub sandwiches, fresh bakery items like donuts (mmm… donuts), and all other kinds of snack, sweet, and savory food. If you are a Wawa fan, you owe it to yourself to come out tomorrow for the annual Wawa Day celebration.

In Pennsylvania, Wawa Day will be celebrated at one of the chain’s Center City locations. Every other location will have free coffee for guests.

Wawa Day is celebrated on April 13th and commemorates the day that the first Wawa in the country opened up in Folsom, Pennsylvania in 1964. The chain will give out free any-size coffee in every Wawa store, but it will celebrate Wawa Day in more grandiose fashion at one store in each of the six states where the chain operates. In Pennsylvania, that store is a Center City location, at 19th and Market streets. The location just opened in December. There, Wawa will, according to the Philly Voice, “announce the locations of the next Philadelphia stores to open” for the first time and is set to unveil the renderings of new Center City Wawa stores, according to a news release.” The first Center City Wawa opened at Broad and Walnut streets in September 2015.

Among the local luminaries set to celebrate Wawa Day at the Center City location will be Mayor Jim Kenney, Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens and many others. The festivities start Thursday at 8:30 a.m.

Along with the chain’s birthday, Wawa Day also celebrates the third anniversary of the Wawa Foundation, which is set to give away $50 million to charitable organizations by 2018.