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News: BETO Junction has recently acquired the catering contract at Heartland Park Topeka and was featured in this newspaper article.

BETO Junction partners with track

Group buys Engroff Catering

By Michael Hooper
The Capital-Journal

The owners of BETO Junction Travel Plaza recently won the catering contract for Heartland Park Topeka and immediately started making changes.

For example, they had a taste test with Heartland Park officials to come up with a new bratwurst to serve to customers this year. They are going with a Johnsonville Brat.

Tom Stone was named the executive chef for BETO Junction Catering, said Kirk Williams, son-in-law of BETO Junction owners Howard and Pam Roe.

Stone has been working for BETO Junction Travel Plaza for eight years. Before that, he handled catering at Heartland Park for five years.

The BETO Junction group expanded in Topeka by purchasing Engroff Catering

"We've catered out of that (BETO Junction) restaurant for 25 years," Williams said. "Now that we own Engroff Catering, we will be able to do even more."

Winning the Heartland Park catering contract was huge because Heartland Park is expected to serve many thousands of customers this year, said Jamie Overocker, spokesman for Heartland Park Topeka.

"They'll be busy," he said.

The big draw is the O'Reilly NHRA Another 25,000 to 30,000 people are expected to be at Heartland Park for the Sports Car Club of America National Championship Runoffs during the first two weeks in October.

In 1977, Howard Roe and his daughter, Teri, came across a sign lying face down at an abandoned filling station along US-50 highway (not far from the site where the travel plaza is today). The sign read "BETO Junction." After finding out the name stands for Burlington, Emporia, Topeka and Ottawa, they decided it would be an appropriate name for their new place. The doors of BETO Junction Travel Plaza opened in January 1978 in the middle of an ice storm at US-75 highway and I-35.

The restaurant gained a reputation for good food, chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and big cinnamon rolls. In a nationwide survey sponsored by Vivarin 10 years ago, BETO Junction was picked as the favorite of truckers.

Truckers, families and friends remain loyal to BETO Junction, which often feeds 1,000 people a day. They added Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers to BETO Junction to offer a quality fast food for travelers and customers. The BETO Junction group also bought six Wendy's restaurants in Topeka a year ago and owns another in Oak Grove, Mo.

The BETO Junction group has about 300 employees, Williams said

Summer Nationals from May 25-28 at Heartland Park.