Valero

The pumps never accept debit cards. You can push that button, but it will never work. you have to inside to the clerk and give it to him. Draaaag! Sometimes he forgets to give back your card.
I go elsewhere for my gas. I like pumps that have working debit card buttons.

Great service
I get my gas promptly
I gas goes a long way but not long enough
no lines early in the morning
this place always have gas
what can i say it’s a gas station and it’s a Valero. Valero is pretty popular on these parts.

Big sign out front: $ 9.99 for a 12-​pack of Tecate. Good deal! I go inside and there is a sign on the front of the refrigerator glass door IN FRONT of the twelve packs of Tecate also boldly indicating that $ 9.99 price. I go to pay and the attendant rings it up and it’s $ 12.99. I tell him about the signs all over and he tries to explain but is very hard to understand. I think he said something about a price change and that he’d advise the management.
They’ve had these Tecate signs up forever. They need to take them down or honor the advertised price.

The owner would do a better job if he/​she were to help direct traffic coming into the station. Make it all one way. Also many times the card machines are down. Nothing that the employees can do… Just frustrating. Makes it tough to do local business there.

If it wasn’t for cheaper gas prices, I would never come here.
The card machines at each pump sometimes work. Sometimes there is window cleaning fluid, and some of the staff are friendly. There is a lot of sometimes at this place.
And again maybe I won’t come back here since there are similar priced gas near by where things work, are refilled, friendly staff, and clean.

Contrary to the 2012 review, I find this station to have among the cheaper gas prices in the area. It was at least the same as the independent station a block away and less than the other name-​brand stations on other streets. I pumped gas after having lunch down in this area this past weekend, and compared to stations in my area of SF they were a good 35 to 40 cents cheaper. They do charge five cents more per gallon for credit card purchases, but that’s more than compensated for when using one of my cards with gas bonus rewards.
I can’t speak for the mini mart here but from the outside it does look small.
Also, I don’t know what time exactly this gas station closes but it seems the lights go out sometime during the night, my estimate maybe around 10pm.

The gas is usually .20 cents more per gallon than the stations just up the street.
The mini-​mart is cluttered and very dirty looking.
The staff inside is not very helpful and doesn’t seem to know much English.
The prices in the mini-​mart are two times more expensive than what you’d pay anywhere else.
The bathrooms are disgusting. You’d be in a cleaner environment by walking into the bushes and going to the bathroom there.
This place could close and the community would be better off without it.

This place used to be San Mateo Gas, one of the last independent gas stations in San Mateo, until a couple of years ago. Now that they’ve gone corporate I almost never go there. But last week, something strange and wonderful happened: they had the cheapest gas along San Mateo’s «crude corridor» along 4^th Ave.
How does one rate a gas station? The price was decent on this particular day, they take debit cards, they have free air for tires, and there was no line to get to the pump.
I do have one complaint, but this is more of a general complaint than one for this Valero specifically. Sometime in the past six months, the gas stations I’ve visited have instituted a maximum charge for filling up. My usual place (Gas and Shop) stops the pump when you reach $ 48. This Valero stops at $ 65. I nearly soiled my knickers when I realized that I had spent $ 65 and still not quite filled my tank. I drive a Saab and not a Suburban. It’s sad. Anyway, why are gas stations doing this? Are they afraid of running out of gas?
Thank goodness that our kids will be getting around in solar-​powered flying cars so they don’t have to deal with this kind of crap.