Kwik & Convenient

Beer, booze, cigarettes, porn mags, lotto tickets, junk food, candy — all your vices under one roof. While convenient, this place seems to attract the most unsavory crowds.
The Taco Truck in the parking lot has improved things as far as drawing people that aren’t looking to satisfy some addiction, but between Safeway and the Monterrey Deli this place is an unnecessary blight on the neighborhood.

Beware! These guys are crooks and will rob you blind! Always get your receipt! Cash register says one thing but debit card got charged more! He didn’t expect me to ask for my receipt, glad I did!

Rude employees no bathroom and they watch you like u are a thief they guard their parking lot if u are there for more than a minute before going in they chase you off hooked and drug dealers always hanging out in front no place for family or honest people stay away so u don’t get mugged

i love this place, friendly happy staff! always willing to help

This please is alright. I come here sometimes. I sometimes get a drink and some candy here. This place charges you to use your debit or credit card. Not good. Monterey Deli does not do that. The only thing Kwik & Convenient is that it has lottery tickets. I rather see this place shut down and become a public Library. The Sunnyside neighborhood need its own library branch. It is surprising that Kwik & Convenient is still here and has not been shut down.

So I went here tonight in the evening and just about six people came in while I was shopping there while I was in the store for about ten minutes. I went trough the isles then inpicked up a watermelon candy and a frozen burrito from one freezer in the front I picked up a cheese stick from the refrigerator then picked a Krispy Kreme donut.
I paid then walked over to the microwave to heat up my Burrito then I left.
This is just your typical convience store they have everything that you would expect from a liquor store. While I was waiting for my burrito to heat up I saw there tattoo and weed magazines and also there very low priced wine selection and there huge selection of different sized chips

They have a cool selection of odd liquor and moonshine. Great beer and wine selections too! Every energy drink you could imagine can be found in the cooler!

This is the best and closest convenience store to our house, and I’m really glad it is. The people who work here are always very friendly and inviting, and also run a good clean store. A good selection of all sorts of things, but we usually come for late night candy runs. We’re lucky to have all the necessities just a few minutes away at any time of day.

New ownership is learning the ways of this store and neighborhood and they are doing quite well. Very friendly and inviting, always trying to start a conversation, or maybe they’re just bored, but regardless, very nice people.
This place is down the street from my house so its almost a daily visit for me, they are also one of only two convenient stores in the city of San Francisco that carry the Snapple Apple drink that my girlfriend and I love very much (we buy them by the case load).
Aside from all the random things, this place is definitely «Kwik & Convenient» with great parking and a great location.

Just another convenient store to me, it is on my way to my grandma’s house so I stop by for coffee here and there. The coffee isn’t that strong, it tastes like hot chocolate with vanilla coffee creamer to me. It suits my tastes because I’m not a big coffee drinker. I only come here for snacks and drinks. Some of their items (non-​edible) are overpriced and look like they’ve been there for a while. That is all.

I know this place has its fans but I’m simply not one of them. I stopped by here on the way to get to work to get my occasional Rockstar to kick-​start my day. I noted that the parking lot was _​completely_​empty – this was a bit unsettling. When I went in, I found the 24 oz. Rockstar to be going for $ 4.50 – holy ripoff Batman! I ended up getting the 16oz. for about $ 2.79 or so. Considering that at 7 – 11, I could get the 24 oz. on special now for $ 2.99, K & C’s price doesn’t really make me want to come back. It is advantageous to come here if you live in the neighborhood and you don’t have the time for anything else, or if the Safeway across the street is closed. If you are just traveling through, you pay a high price for the quickness and convenience. I’m now calling this place «Kwik & Expensive».

This store has never let me down in an emergency situation. It is not pretty, it is overpriced and it’s not even remotely clean but if I need something urgently I can usually find it at what my kids and I refer to as The Kwik. It looks out of place on the corner of Monterrey and Foerster as it is such a quiet little neighborhood that offers nothing in terms of retail choice. When you’re inside of Kwik and Convenient, It almost feels like a scene in a movie where something bad is about to go down, like a robbery or hostage situation. The owners may seem aloof and unfriendly but in reality they are nice guys once you get used to them and vice versa. I don’t think I’ve ever come in and not found the main guy chattering away on his cell phone. This is when you have to be vigilant about counting your change. Sometimes you get too much back but most times it is too little. It’s not intentional, he is just too busy on the phone to be accurate.
So why 5 stars? Because this place puts a smile on my face and makes me feel like I’ve ventured to somewhere dangerous and urban in a Twilight Zone kind of way. It also serves as my marker that I am close to home if I’ve been away. I love that it is open ²⁴⁄₇ every single day of the year especially on Christmas when I was actually out of toilet paper. And what’s not to love about a store where you can purchase cat food, ice cream, condoms, Nag Chamba incense, bling bling rhinestone key chains with your initals, phone cards to every country imaginable, herbal viagara, a can of Four Locos and brake fluid all at the same counter? It offers the convenience of ⁷⁄₁₁ but with an edge. Not to mention there is always a parking space waiting for me.

It’s a bit overpriced on some items and doesn’t always offer the freshest stuff (the dairy is always expiring the day you are looking at it, for instance, watch the dates Toonces) BUT… in this totally «suburban» sector of SF, K & C has what you’d call «a captive audience» in that there is NOTHING else open past 10pm!!!
Kwik…shortened from Quick (if that doesn’t convince you they will make every effort to «make it snappy, pappy!» nothing will! Then again, how «kwik» can my shopping experience be when they lock the doors and you have to beg for an audience with the slushy guy! A lot of pressure to make the cut… you approach the door, grab the handle to pull it open, nothing… then you decide to try it again just to make sure… nope, not opening! The clerk looks over at you and stares but doesn’t move… you’re thinking uh… he loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me noooot… HURRRAAY, he’s getting he’s keys out to let us in! Hallelujah! (NOTE: Something about this place always reminds me of one of my all time fave films, «Clerks»…when the overhead door wont open and they hang up that sign that reads «I assure you, we’re open!»)
The staff here can be pretty sassy and the service is perfunctory but adequate! (It’s a 2am liquor store not Nordstroms, can’t be picky) Also, they have an amazing arsenal of mustard here… all kinds… sort of like being in one of those fancy mustard sections at some gourmet grocery stop in Napa, you know? (Champagne, Dijon, yellow, spicy) Check out the mustard if you’re into that sort of thing!
So if you’re in DIRE need of late night munchies, ice cream, dog food, scrunchies, strawberry Mentos, tabloids, trucker caps or absolutely last call liquor, you could do alot worse than Kwik n Convenient!!! Open 24/​7, 365 days a year… AND…they have their own parking lot! Ding ding ding… jackpot!!!

THEY ARE OPEN ²⁴⁄₇!
ALTHOUGH NOT THE BEST SERVICE, this brightly lit corner store has it all. Love coming here on random nights. Can get crowded with random characters, still it has parking so gotta love that!

I venture into this «quickie mart» type place to get a Lotto ticket every once in a while. I perused the aisles once, but they mostly stock expired stuff — so read the labels before you purchase something in a rush.

I probably started going to Kwik & Convenient on my own when I was about 11. It has never failed me.
Last call Hennessey? 4am snack? Kwikie’s got it!
Surprisingly there are not too many shady characters coming in here either… unless I am part of that category? oh dear god i need to reassess my life.
The only time this place has ever let me down is when we bought a stale «tobacco”-who-are-we-kidding-BLUNT wrap and it disintegrated in my fingers. My friend and I took it back immediately and the guy gave us a new one.
Plus, we used to look through the dirty porn on the shelves when we were 13. Ok, now I’m sure I am one of the seedy characters at the corner store. fml.
All in all, this place rocks and lives up to its name.

I live up the hill and this is pretty much my spot for snagging a rockstar when I’ve forgotten to put one in the fridge the night before.
I gotta agree that most things here are overpriced, but you gotta expect some overhead for the only 24hour store in this area. I am ok with paying 10−20% extra for the Kwikness.

Cons: Customer service sucks!!! Greet your customer or at least smile. Don’t seem paranoid every time someone walks in your store. That’s all I can say about it.
Pros: Very convenient that it’s open 24 hrs.

Dear Kwik & Convenient,
I live across the street from you. While the convenience of a liquor store open 24 hours is amazing, you have several downfalls:
1. Everything is over priced. $ 6 for my pack of cigarettes. They aren’t fancy. They cost $ 4.50 in Richmond.
2. Only crazy ass people shop here. For example, me, but most memorable, the lady buying $ 50 worth of scratchers.
3. The weekend in which there was a dance party in your parking lot at 2 am TWO nights in a row.
4. The weekend where I looked out my window and I saw someone with a baseball bat hitting the back of a car window.
Good things about you:
1. You serve liquor, a wide variety of liquor.
2. You are the one 24 hour gem in a sea of residential slumber.
3. You sell cigarettes when ever I want them.
4. The staff is sassy, and you make me laugh.
5. If I am not trying to sleep, your parking lot provides me entertainment most nights.
Your loyal customer,
Amber

When I lived on Monterey Boulevard, this place saved my life so many times. Since the Safeway across the street closes as some ridiculously early hour, having Kwik and Convenient open 24 hours is great. Especially when you run out of cigarettes, need some booze, or you’re craving a hot dog that’s been sitting out all day.
Kwik and Convenient is like your every day corner store. They have a parking lot, but people drive through that thing like it’s a street, so watch your car. They also seem to get robbed at gunpoint a lot, so after a certain hour they lock the front door. Just shake it a bit and they’ll come open it. Occasionally the guy running the counter will be lying down on the floor in the middle of the store, which is kind of weird. But if he’s not shot and dying, he’ll get up and let you in.
24 hours means 24 hours. How can you not love that?