Thorntons celebrated the grand re-opening of its existing store location at 2401 Morgan Ave. Evansville, Ind., on Sept. 16, 2010.

With the addition of this location, Thorntons will operate 161 stores throughout Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Tennessee and Ohio.

Customers can look forward to a clean and friendly environment with high quality foods, such as fresh sandwiches, salads, fruit and more. The new store features a redesigned look with a greater focus on fresh food, fountain drinks and hot beverages. This includes Thorntons’ innovative roller grill bar design featuring “hot off the grill” items like hot dogs, corndogs, and more. They offer a large variety of hot, cold, and frozen beverages that are made with 100% filtered watered and are 100% satisfaction guaranteed. They offer tasty frozen Icee flavors, mouth-watering smoothies, and the freshest coffee in town. They also have top quality products at grocery store sizes, competitive prices, as well as, 100% guaranteed fuel.

Many promotions are scheduled to take place in the first 30 days following the grand re-opening celebration. Customers can expect free 32-ounce fountain drinks, free 20-ounce coffee, as well as many buy one get one free specials. Beginning on Saturday, Sept. 25, there will be several door buster giveaways that include free RedBox DVD rental coupons, free two liters, Thorntons coffee mugs and more.

“We are thrilled about the grand re-openings of our Louisville store,” said Matt Thornton, CEO of Thorntons. “Our goal is to provide our customers with a unique shopping experience. From our world class coffee, to our high quality fresh food and value priced snack, beverage and grocery products, we hope to delight our customers with an enjoyable one-stop shopping experience.”