For late-night convenience on Fifth Avenue in downtown San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, this 7-Eleven between Island Avenue and Market Street stocks Slurpee fountain drinks, hot pizza, and check-cashing services alongside SNAP/EBT-accepted groceries. The Slurpee and Big Gulp fountain bank generates high turnover from the same tourist and nightlife foot traffic that sustains dessert destinations like Parfait Paris on the same avenue. Metered street parking on Fifth Avenue provides direct store access without requiring the paid garage structures that dominate the Gaslamp Quarter's interior blocks. Packaged snack and beverage inventory targets the souvenir-shopping crowd moving between Fifth Avenue retail stops, including the weekly vendor rotations at Gaslamp Artisan Market. The 7-Eleven chain was founded in 1927 in Dallas and now operates more than 85,000 stores worldwide as a subsidiary of Seven & I Holdings.