Darik Chandler is editor of Inside Snack. He covers convenience retail, fuel, travel centers, foodservice, and the chain moves that show up first at the curb. His desk work starts from primary sources — EIA weekly averages, SEC filings, FDA and FSIS recalls, and Federal Register rules — then follows what those numbers mean for operators.
Maya Ortiz is managing editor of Inside Snack. She runs the daily board, assigns the fuel and operations files, and edits company pages built from SEC filings and chain store maps. She previously covered retail operations at a regional business desk.
Jordan Hale covers retail gasoline and diesel, renewable diesel, and EV programs as one P&L. He reads the EIA weekly print by PADD and grade, then follows what those moves mean for jobbers and travel-center buyers.
Priya Shah covers prepared food, coffee, and dispensed beverage programs that have to fit a 2,800-square-foot box. She reports the kitchen as an operations story — labor, daypart, and contribution — not a franchise brochure.
Cole Brennan covers tobacco, alternative nicotine, and the state rules that decide what can still sit on a fixture. He cites the statute and the docket, not a supplier’s occasion language.
Lena Voss keeps the fuel board, SNAP retailer tables, and recall series attached to the reported files. She treats public government data as the industry talking, not as a sidebar chart.
