VeryLate Chain Sites

Last Updated: August 11, 2008

Convenience Stores
• Royal Farms Stores. A regional convenience store chain with made-to-order sandwiches at some locations. They are mostly in Maryland and Delaware. Here's their locator and a complete list of locations.
• Sheetz. A regional chain of convenience stores based in western Pennsylvania. They also make sandwiches and subs to order around the clock. They have a locator on their site.
• Wawa. A regional chain of convenience stores based in the Philadelphia area. They make subs... I mean "hoagies" to order 24 hours a day. They have a locator on their site, which you can use to find 24 hour locations.

Doughnuts
• Dunkin Donuts. Many of these are open 24 hours. Here's a locator.
• Krispy Kreme. Wonderful donuts! Many late night locations! Here's their locator.

Fast Food
• Arby's now has many late night locations. Here is their locator that works for both the U.S. and Canada!
• Burger King has now started an ad campaign talking about their late night locations. There is a locator on the site, but you'll have to select it from the webpage menu.
• Carl's Jr. has many late night locations (so I'm told). They also have a decent locator on their site.
• Hardee's is just Carl's Jr. for those of us on the east coast. I'm starting to see more and more of their locations going 24 hours, so they get a link. They have a new locator and it's finally a decent one. Don't get me started on their old ones...
• In-N-Out Burger is a west coast fast food chain open past midnight every night. They have a locator on their site as well as a list of all locations.
• Jack in the Box. I've noticed that many of these locations have drive-thrus that are open late or 24 hours. Here's their locator.
• Krystal. Southern fast food chain with many late night and 24 hour locations. They have a locator link on the main page, but I find it extremely difficult to use.
• McDonald's. The king of fast food has finally gotten on the bandwagon. More and more locations now have 24 hour drive-thrus! Here's a locator for US locations. They now have a locator on the Canadian site which which also has a list of ALL 24 hour drive-thrus in Canada! Awesome!
• Sonic. They now are advertising their locations being open late, so they get a link here. They also have a locator.
• Taco Bell. They have a lot of drive-thrus that are open late. Their locator is at the bottom of the main page. The also have a separate site dedicated to their late night campaign called Fourth Meal!
• Wendy's. I have included them because most of their drive thrus are open late! Their locator is at the top of the main page.
• Whataburger. This chain is relatively new to our site. I don't know too much about them other than they are a Texas-based burger chain open 24 hours a day. I like them already! They also have a locator on their site.

Grocery Stores
• Bi-Lo. Southeastern chain with many 24 hour locations. They have a locator link at the top of their page. It allows you to search for 24-hour locations.
• Food Lion. East Coast chain with many 24 hour locations. They have a locator but it doesn't list hours.
• Giant Food. This is a Mid-Atlantic regional chain. The locator will now let you search for 24 hour locations!
• Harris Teeter. Another southeastern chain with plenty of 24 hour locations. They have a locator which provides store hours in the search results.
• Kroger. Huge national chain with many 24 hour stores. Their locator lets you search for 24 hour pharmacies, which is nice. Once you do your search and get details on an individual store, hours are then listed.
• Safeway. Large national chain with many 24 hour locations. They have a locator linked from the main page.
• Shoppers Food & Pharmacy. Yet another regional chain with a number of 24 hour stores. Here's their locator which lists hours.

Pharmacies
• CVS. Here is the site for this regional pharmacy chain. They have a very nice locator you can use to find 24 hour locations and filter on 24 hour services as well!
• Rite Aid. A regional pharmacy chain with an excellent store locator which allows you to search for 24 hour stores.
• Walgreens. National pharmacy chain with a locator that you can use to find 24 hour locations.

Restaurants
• Cluck-U Chicken. Chain of take out and delivery restaurants mostly in Maryland and New Jersey. Many locations open late. Their locator lists hours for some locations.
• Cosi. Chain of coffee and sandwich shops mostly in the northeast with some late night locations. They have a locator link on their main page where you can get hours for each shop!
• Denny's. Almost all of their locations are open 24 hours. They have a locator as well.
• Eat'n Park. Chain of restaurants mostly in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia. Many locations are 24 hours. Once you find individual locations using their locator, you can find out that location's hours.
• Huddle House. A chain of 24-hour restaurants in the southeast. They have a decent locator.
• IHOP aka International House of Pancakes. Many of their locations are open 24 hours. They have a locator as well as a list of all locations.
• Miami Subs Grill. Very good subs. Many locations are open late. Here is their locator.
• Perkins Restaraunt and Bakery. Many of their locations are open late at night or even 24 hours. This site has a nice locator that lists hours for each restaurant.
• Silver Diner. Chain of diners in Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey with late night hours, mostly on weekends. Their location list has hours for every location!
• Steak'n'Shake. This is a regional chain of restaraunts out of Indianapolis. The have good cheap food, good service, and most locations are open 24 hours. Nice site with a location listing.
• Waffle House. Most of these are open 24 hours. Here's their locator, which is a vast improvement over what they used to have!

Services
• FedEx Office, formerly FedEx Kinko's. Nationwide chain of copy places that also provides other business services. Many of their locations are open 24 hours. You now have to use the general FedEx locator to find locations. Hours are listed in search results.

Shopping
• Meijer. Discount department store chain in the midwest trying to give Wal-Mart a run for their money. They have many 24 hour locations. Their locator doesn't list store hours, but it does list pharmacy hours!
• Wal-Mart. Online shopping available here, also a store locator, that supposedly lets you search which stores are open 24 hours. Unfortunately, the info on store hours is often out of date by a year or more. Do not trust the store hours that the locator provides you. The best way to find 24 hour locations is to use the locator to find a convenient store and then call them to find out their hours. Phone numbers are provided.

If any of the above links are out of date, or if you know of chains that we should add, please use the submissions page.