Wow!! We just happened to come across this gem! Not really any street signage on the outside, nor fancy lights. The parking lot is huge and so is the fuel island, the last diesel pump even has a vacuum beside it. There's a scale outside and a trailer called the "Trucker Chapel". The building itself looks old and out-dated with signs across it reading Grocery, Motel and Restaurant. It also has a shop on the side, probably for tire changes, oil services and light mechanic work. Once inside, you can see where the money has been spent right off. It has everything! A truckers paradise all in one building. My husband immediately took off like a caveman in search for food so I was free to explore. There's a grocery store, barber shop, Charlie's Restaurant, a game room, shoe shining chairs, showers, not only men and women restrooms but a family restroom, a Hot Bar....and then there's the elevator. Up the elevator is the motel, laundry room, media room and therapeutic massage. Hmmm, I instantly wanted to go up, looking carefully around I took a step towards the elevator and BAM! Here comes my husband, arms full of food, snacks and a drink and ready to go. My dreams of a perfect massage by a tall, dark muscular stud of a stranger were ruined. Oh hell, coronavirus ruined anyway....so I went to get me something to eat and drink real quick, then back up towards the registers. A lady cashier who had been lost in conversation with her co-worker AND goes by the name AM2 on the receipt, came to ring us up. She hardly talked to us at all but just to say they can't put points on our rewards card, though she can use the points from it. Which we chose to save our points thank you. She bagged up our purchase and quickly left to continue her conversation that we must of bothered her from. Awesome truck stop, grocery store clothing store or motel, whatever you use it for....my only negatives on this stop is the bothered cashier and the fact that the stop that carries everything forgot about phone booster's. We'll have to get that somewhere else. Now, to get my wonderful husband back out to the truck. read more

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Wow! This place went to crap real quick after Pilot took over. No tv/drivers lounge, no more motel no more anything upstairs anymore, which includes the Asian massage room. No more restaurant and very little of anything of Luke warm grab and go crap. The "hot food" area in the back corner had absolutely nothing. Just a worthless s---hole. read more

This was my late night college hangout. Broke college students at the time, we knew the exact price of those cheese fries and sometimes had to count up change to make it out there. The wait staff was always so patient with us rowdy college students in the wee hours of the morning. All we ever order were cheese fries. The best cheese fries ever! The cheese was always melted perfectly and ooey gooey on nice crisp fries. Good thing I'm not in KS anymore because I can't resist them! read more

After our zombie hunt we came here to eat. Even though it was towards the end of their day, they were short on help, and there were 11 of us eating they did an awesome job! Thank You!!! read more

I love what they have done with the place. I remember how it was before and this is so much nicer. Resturant is good. Store staff is friendly. Good selection in store. read more

The cheese fries here are sent from heaven above. This is a standard part of the college life for all schools in this area. #beautiful read more

Newell Travel Center - Automotive Near Me

If you think most or all truck stops have great or even decent food, you are in for a shock here. We stopped in for a quick lunch on our way out of town. What a mistake! They had a lunch buffet and we gave it a go in the interest of saving time. Never again. It was Friday so the options were geared to fish (I suppose for the Catholics who don't eat meat in Friday's) the offerings were: Imu crab fettuccine Alfredo, fried catfish, baked white fish of some kind, a beef stew which had almost no beef, Mac and cheese, mashed powdered potatoes, white pasty gravy, and hush puppies, along with a salad bar that included weird pickled eggs that tasted like cloves, a potato salad that was overly sweet and had way too much pickled relish, a white milky clam chowder and white rolls that were well past their prime. The best I can say about the food was that it was all at least the same shade of white. The soup, Alfredo, white gravy, all seemed like they were made from the same white base. I think paste might have been what the base was. The white baked fish while looking decent, was soon the biggest let down as it turned to mush in your mouth without even biting into it. I spit it into a napkin. The hush puppies were dry and dense with little flavor. Don't get me started in the chowder. The white soup looked like a thick skim milk. The clams were so soft you didn't even have to chew them. The mashed potatoes were beyond disgusting and I guess the cooks could not be bothered to use real potatoes. The rolls were hard and dried out and the vegetable stew, wait did I say vegetable stew? Yes the vegetable stew which should have had meat had none. I literally stirred and stirred trying to find beef and finally got 1 shred of meat in the stew. The Mac and cheese was flavorless. That being said, absolutely nothing is cooked with any and I mean any salt or pepper. It all tastes just like the paste kids eat as kindergarteners. As I looked around the restaurant, I began to notice that aside from the two tables with what seemed to be construction workers, everyone else was over 70. In fact it began to dawn on me that this was hospital or nursing home quality food and gear specifically to that crowd. I cannot imagine why anyone with any taste buds would ever come here to eat or why anyone that did not have severe IBS would eat any of this bland white food. This ties at the bottom with the worst place I have ever eaten in and wasted my money. Don't waste yours. One more note. The service is just like the service you get at a nursing home and with as much attention being paid to the customer as they pay to the soiled patient at the same. NEVER AGAIN. read more

Eaten here many times. Excellent food, friendly people, excellent facility with very clean restrooms, great food selection from the grocery section and the best buffet in Newton bar none. Thank you. The wifi here is the fastest of all the Newton restaurants I have eaten at, and you can get some work done while eating. The TV in the trucker's lounge shows the weather frequently and the TV's in the dining area will show weather or sporting events. read more

Cleanest restrooms ever! After a long day of driving and putting up with grungy bathrooms, this was a welcome respite!

I have been a solid repeat customer for the food service and quality, however, recently I needed a basic, simple repair on my trailer. I purchased the replacement clearance light complete fixture at the truck plaza parts display. Anticipating a straight forward remove and replace I was disappointed to find a couple of electrical terminal ends did not 'mate' and the anchoring screws were damaged and could not be re-used. I was told that Newell no longer had personnel on site to accomplish this r&r task but that there was a associated repair facility less than a block away. Drove my truck and trailer there, described the problem, handed them the new replacement fixture after pointing at he repair location. Over an hour later the repair was complete and I was told the complete job would cost $108.54 the total comprised of two 0.3 hr labor periods (.3 hour = 17 minutes, each of $37.50), one 17 min diagnostic task and another 17 min to open the blister package and screw to trailer) and then the normal exorbitantly charged 'shop materials', required fasteners (two $0.20 self tapping screws at $1.84 each), waste disposal (none generated) and taxes. I do understand that small shops must aggressively charge for the cost-of-doing-business and a reasonable 'mark-up' for provision of fasteners but this AM Best branded shop, associated with the Newell AM Best truck plaza was EXCESSIVE and took an inordinate about of time due to their antiquated computer service (that 'quit' several times while I was penalized time wise). Overall repair experience, EXTREMELY bad. The restaurant almost makes up for the greedy pillaging of the repair customers.......almost but not completely. read more

We generally frequent the truck stop after having dinner when we stop by and they have a bunch of knick knacks for people to buy, nothing that sets them apart from other truck stops though. read more

Wonderful food! Best cheese fries I've ever had! Reasonable prices too! Loved how they remodeled the place! Before, it had a dirty feel to it, but now with brand new everything it gives you a clean feeling! I also love looking at the little shop they have before you enter the restaurant!. read more

Headed home from Wichita Eisenhower Airport, after Christmas, I got caught in the winter storm driving my rear-wheel drive Ranger. My windshield wipers were not functional and all four tires were low on air, decreasing my traction. I stopped at the Newell Family Truck Stop in hopes of getting my vehicular issues addressed. I saw one of the mechanics outside shoveling snow and asked him about getting services. He took me into the store to buy wiper blades and then installed them on my truck, replacing my broken ones, and he filled all four tires with air. When I asked him what I owed for his work on my truck, the mechanic declined to be paid! I tipped him instead, and thanked him for doing me "a solid." The folks inside the store were also very friendly, and the store had a lot of cool things to buy, had I been inclined to shop. On my drive leading up to the truck stop I was frustrated and unhappy with Kansas, due to weather. By the time I left Newell's I was loving Kansas again because of the great people in the state, specifically those at Newell's Truck Stop. They got me back on the road safely and reminded me of how salt-of-the-Earth Kansans can be. I highly recommend a stop here if you're passing by! read more