Parker’s Kitchen —a nationally acclaimed convenience store company and food service leader that’s currently celebrating its 50^th anniversary — was recently honored as a USA TODAY Top Workplace for 2026, identifying the company as one of the best places to work in the nation. This marks the second time Parker’s Kitchen has earned national acclaim for its positive workplace culture, following inclusion on the USA TODAY Top Workplaces list in 2024. The company participates bi-annually in this popular awards program.

The USA TODAY 2026 Top Workplaces list features an elite group of companies that have created exceptional, people-first work environments. Regarded as the most credible and authentic global recognition program, the USA TODAY Top Workplaces awards program utilizes feedback from employee surveys to identify America’s best places to work.

“We’re incredibly honored to be named a USA TODAY Top Workplace for the second time and are thrilled to celebrate this prestigious honor during our milestone 50th anniversary,” said Parker’s Kitchen founder and Executive Chairman Greg Parker. “Our hard-working team members are truly the key to our success over the past five decades. Every day, they help us provide fast, fresh, friendly service to our customers and share our commitment to giving back to the communities we serve in transformative ways.”

Parker’s Kitchen employs nearly 1,700 team members throughout South Carolina and Georgia and completes approximately 1.1 million transactions weekly. The award-winning convenience store company is focused on developing talent and making a long-term investment in team members.

Parker’s Kitchen employees are offered highly competitive pay, leadership promotion opportunities and exceptional benefits, including PTO starting on day one, 401(k) with company match, childcare assistance, gym reimbursement and company-paid maternity/paternity/adoption leave.

Through employee surveys conducted by workplace culture and talent management company Energage, USA TODAY’s Top Workplaces award program recognizes high-performing people-first cultures.

“These are companies that are successful because they put their people at the center of all that they do,” said Dr. Greg Barnett, Chief Innovation Officer at Energage. “By prioritizing the employee experience, they are known to outproduce, out-innovate and out-deliver the competition.”

Founded in Midway, Ga., in 1976, Parker’s Kitchen has been recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in South Carolina” by SC Biz News and was named the Convenience Store Chain of the Year by Convenience Store Decisions, which is the industry’s highest honor. Included on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing companies in America eight times, Parker’s Kitchen is currently expanding into new markets, including Jacksonville, Fla. and Columbia, S.C., and plans to open 17 new stores in 2026.

Known for its commitment to charitable giving, the company has donated more than $30 million to a wide range of charitable causes over the past eight years, supporting education, reducing hunger, expanding access to healthcare and helping local veterans.