Free Coffee At MD Wawa Stores: How To Get Yours

MARYLAND — It's a yearly treat for Wawa customers in Maryland: The convenience store chain will celebrate its 58th anniversary Thursday by offering customers free hot coffee of any size all day long.

The popular convenience store chain, which touts 690 stores nationwide, expects to give away more than two million free cups of any size coffee to customers at all locations.

There's no catch: Simply go to any Wawa and get a free coffee of any size on April 14. Free coffees are limited to one per customer.

"We are thrilled to be able to bring back our traditional Wawa Day festivities to honor the millions of customers who have been such an integral part of our growth through the years," said Chris Gheysens, Wawa president and CEO, in a statement.

The celebration will also involve honoring one customer as each store's official "Day Brightener" and unveiling a limited-edition Popping Bubbles Passionfruit Lemonade beverage to support the Children's Miracle Network, a nonprofit that helps to fund children's hospitals.

"Being there for our customers, associates and communities when they need us most remains one of our core commitments and one that we always seek to strengthen through new partnerships and possibilities," Gheysens said.

Wawa will also donate $1 million in gift cards to the Wawa Foundation's National Partners and certain community partners, including the American Red Cross. They will also announce contributions of $1 million each to Check-Out Hunger and the Special Olympics.

Wawa opened its first store in April 1964 in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

Founded in April 1964, Wawa opened its first store in Folsom, Pennsylvania. It sold milk produced in Wawa, Pennsylvania, at a plant started by the Wawa founder's grandfather.

"Wawa" is also the Native American word for the Canada goose found in the Delaware Valley around the dairy plant, which is why the company's logo incorporates the bird.

Since then, it has expanded into multiple states, including Florida, Virginia, New Jersey and Delaware, as well as Maryland and Washington, D.C.

Find the Maryland Wawa location nearest to you and store hours here.