Andretti SpeedMart

I’ve been coming here from time to time for snack food and beverage items. The pricing of food and beverage selection is decent and similar to what you’ll find at convenience stores like 7 – 11. There are restrooms available here but be prepared to know that sometimes you may have wait in line though. I must admit that it is good they have restrooms available for customers. Positive experiences and friendly staff members here.
A Burger King, Starbucks, car wash, gas station and convenience store all in one place. This is certainly not an instance you’ll see everywhere except for those resting areas along your road trip to Los Angeles.
*Please be very careful and extra alert of your surroundings here!*
01/​16/​2014:
Props to this convenience store because they had the Doritos Cool Ranch Flavored Locos Tacos Tortilla Chips on the shelves.
03/​27/​2014:
They had Don Miguel burritos* in the refrigerator section — props.
*Blue Color wrapper — Chicken and Cheese
*Red Color wrapper — Shredded Beef and Cheese
*Yellow Color wrapper — Breakfast Burritos
ADVISORY:
Please be very careful, enhance your precaution measures and seriously refrain from displaying large sums of money. There are panhandlers here as well and some of them can get very aggressive.

Avoid at all costs. Station is full of sketchy characters and the car wash workers are incredibly rude — hard to tell them from the homeless people than hang out — except maybe the homeless are nicer. STAY AWAY.

A charming lil’ piece of Fresno dropped smack dab in the middle of SF — SOMA no less. If you desperately miss desert valley suburbia but don’t have time to drive over the hill, the aptly named Andretti’s SpeedMart is the place for you.
The one thing this joint has going for it = Convenience: a Starbuck’s, gas station, mini-​mart, Burger King, and car wash all packed into a smallish building on the corner of 8^th & Howard.
Seriously, how many times have you been schlepping around town trying to do errands, only to spend an hour or so just to drive to 3 – 4 different locations, park & get out of your car 3 – 4 times just to get your Starbuck’s, gas, & french fry fix? Here you can do all that in 1 quick stop.
Tip: Watch your back driving around the parking lot as many of the customers are Mario Andretti wannabes and race around the lot like its the final lap at Indy 500. Hey you, no complain — WTF do you expect at a place named Andretti frickin SpeedMart?

I’m never giving these people another cent. For a few years, I’ve bought gas here on my way home, even though it’s a few cents a gallon more, because it was convenient. However, around 10:00 a.m. today I locked my keys and my purse in my car at a pump, and needed to use a phone to call to get my car unlocked. I asked to use a phone inside and was told «use a pay phone.» When I said that my $$ was in my car, the cashier just shrugged. Luckily, some good guy in line handed me his phone so I got some help. I drove to another gas station to fill the tank.

Well the only thing about this place is that it’s right across from the photography studio i am at almost every day so it’s my munchie fix. Since I don’t really drive i can’t really talk as much about the gas portion, but it’s safe since there’s almost always cops hanging at the Starbux attached to it…

The car wash damaged my windshield wipers, the attendant witnessed it. My usual garage fixed it for $ 25 so I brought over a copy of the bill. I couldn’t get the manager on the phone for a couple weeks and when I finally did he said tough luck. DO NOT get your car washed here unless you want something broken.

This place is slowly making me fat with crap I don’t actually want from 9 – 6 M-​F.
And that is about as Useful, Funny and Cool as this gets

This guy’s got the market cornered on wine.
I’ve been to the Andretti vineyard in Sonoma (wine country), and to the Andretti Speedmart on 9^th street (wino country).
Both were beautiful in their own way.

Your typical outlet for all kinds of horrible products that destroy the earth.
Primarily, it’s a gas station. It’s big enough to almost be called a truck stop. There is also a drive-​through car wash. The Speed Mart, which glorifies Mario Andretti with giant pictures of him looking heroic in front of a race car and the Transamerica Pyramid at sunset, is filled with high sodium, sugar-​filled mechanized, high-​profit packaged drinks and snacks.
The Speed Mart is flanked by a Burger King, the final destination for all kinds of chickens and cows unfortunate enough to have been born on factory farms, and a Starbucks, that wrecking ball of a company that has flattened thousands upon thousands of family-​owned coffeehouses for the love of money, not coffee.
If the panhandlers out front didn’t get your last quarter, you can use it to get into the bathroom-​which is Nasty Canasta. Nasty enough that the toilet laughs at you diabolically when you enter. The smell punches you in the face, and yes, it’s urine on the floor. Watch out for used needles.
It’s a big shitty truckstop in the middle of the city, although you’d expect to see it next to a freeway. They sell all kinds of awful products that all of us (myself included) are addicted to. But you can get gas, coffee, your car washed, a bag of chips and a burger, conveniently, all right here — aren’t you happy to be an American!

Ever get the feeling something bad is about to happen? Well I get this feeling every time I come to this place. To call this place sketchy would a compliment. I call it the Shaun Of The Dead syndrome. Everyone on the street around you is a fucking zombie trying to hit you up for whatever you have in your pockets.
Besides the zombies, the place is actually very convenient for late night after hour munching/​sobering. I just wish this place were located further south on Harrison closer to the freeway on/​off ramps.
They gain an extra star because they employed my Polish friend.

As ghetto as it gets, but drive-​through ghetto: expansive urban gas station /​market /​Burger King /​Starbucks /​car wash in the ugliest part of town. Bathrooms? Nasty. Sandwiches? Nasty. Coffee? Extra nasty. Last Angus Burger here sometime around midnight the stoner cashier was laughing because he had dropped my sack on the ground outside the window. It tasted like it had been run over a few times as well, soggy, tired, stale. Made me a little queasy. He dropped my money when I tried to pay. Lots of street people here but not nearly as talkative as those who congregate on Market Street. On the plus it’s open late and racing legend Michael Andretti, Mario’s son, owns it. (though the staff doesn’t seem to know this).