DEFOREST — The freezer alone, where the temperature is a constant -10, can hold 5,000 pallets of frozen pizza, ice cream and waffles.
The new Kwik Trip distribution center in DeForest includes four rooms in which bananas are ripened using ethylene gas. It takes about 24 hours to ripen 320,000 pounds of bananas, which are then shipped to more than 900 stores. The facility, which began receiving products last week, is still waiting on its first shipment of bananas.
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Forest Brody, center, operations manager for Kwik Trip’s new distribution center in DeForest, gives a tour of the facility, including the freezer area where the temperature is kept a constant -10 degrees. The 56,000-square-foot freezer can hold 5,000 pallets of product.
An estimated 300 people attend Tuesday's ribbon-cutting for Kwik Trip’s $120 million distribution center in DeForest.
Eli Kendl takes cleaned totes and puts them in storage as he works in Kwik Trip’s new distribution center in DeForest. The room can wash 2,000 totes and lids a day. The totes are used to transport product from the warehouse, onto trucks and into stores for stocking.
Guests visit the area with one of the conveyors used to transport totes filled with product at Kwik Trip’s new distribution center in DeForest.
Don Zietlow, right, former CEO of Kwik Trip, and son Scott, left, current CEO, celebrate Tuesday's ribbon-cutting for the $120 million distribution center in DeForest.
Photos: Kwik Trip’s new Distribution Center in DeForest
Forest Brody, center, operations manager for Kwik Trip’s new distribution center in DeForest, gives a tour of the facility, including the freezer area where the temperature is kept a constant -10 degrees. The 56,000-square-foot freezer can hold 5,000 pallets of product.
The new Kwik Trip distribution center in DeForest includes four rooms in which bananas are ripened using ethylene gas. It takes about 24 hours to ripen 320,000 pounds of bananas, which are then shipped to more than 900 stores. The facility, which began receiving products last week, is still waiting on its first shipment of bananas.
An estimated 300 people attend Tuesday's ribbon-cutting for Kwik Trip’s $120 million distribution center in DeForest.
Don Zietlow, right, former CEO of Kwik Trip, and son Scott, left, current CEO, celebrate Tuesday's ribbon-cutting for the $120 million distribution center in DeForest.
Guests visit the area with one of the conveyors used to transport totes filled with product at Kwik Trip’s new distribution center in DeForest.
The area where product is unloaded at Kwik Trip’s new Distribution Center in DeForest, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
A timeline is on display at Kwik Trip’s new Distribution Center in DeForest, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Eli Kendl takes cleaned totes and puts them in storage as he works in Kwik Trip’s new distribution center in DeForest. The room can wash 2,000 totes and lids a day. The totes are used to transport product from the warehouse, onto trucks and into stores for stocking.
Visitors tour Kwik Trip’s new Distribution Center in DeForest, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Damian Miralles, senior manager at Kwik Trip’s Distribution Center, gives a tour of the new facility in DeForest, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Visitors tour Kwik Trip’s new Distribution Center in DeForest, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Visitors tour Kwik Trip’s new Distribution Center in DeForest, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
The break room at Kwik Trip’s new Distribution Center in DeForest, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
A view from the break room at Kwik Trip’s new Distribution Center in DeForest, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Kwik Trip’s new Distribution Center in DeForest, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
