Drivers along Second Avenue North will have noticed a change to one of the newer convenience stores in town.

It’s only a change in the sign, though. Although the former Kwik Star Express is now called Tobacco Outlet Plus Grocery, everything inside has stayed the same.

“Same products, same store, the only thing changing is the signage,” said Steve Wrobel, spokesman for Kwik Trip and Kwik Star. “Hopefully it’s a good change.”

The store opened in February as a Kwik Star Express, smaller than some of Kwik Star’s full stores. While it offers coffee, ice cream, and fresh meat, potatoes, eggs, bread, milk, bananas and other groceries, it has never sold hot meals.

“The reason we went with a different name is very simple,” Wrobel said. “We had a few people coming in and they would say, ‘I expected a Kwik Star store. Where are the hot foods and the roller grills?’

“Simply because we didn’t have that, we thought we didn’t want to disappoint people.”

Kwik Trip headquarters is in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Its stores are called Kwik Star in Iowa to avoid confusion with Oklahoma-based QuikTrip.

Tobacco Outlet Plus has been under the Kwik Trip umbrella for years, Wrobel said.

Wrobel did not have any information about new Kwik Star stores planned for Fort Dodge.

The Fort Dodge Plan and Zoning Commission has received a development proposal from the company for a site near the intersection of Leah Lane and Triton Plaza — across Kenyon Road from Iowa Central Community College.

It also has received plans for a similar store near Fifth Avenue South and 31st Street. That project would involve what is now the site of Tobacco Outlet, 3105 Fifth Ave. S., and McGough Construction, 3115 Fifth Ave. S.