Date: 8/30/2005 1:52:16 AM Author: ricb These plazas are mainly on toll roads, such as the NY Thruway, NJ Turnpike etc. The logic for them is that if you get off the highway for gas, or food then you pay extra tolls. Personally I think they also help line the states pockets.quote> Last I remember from when I took the NJ Turnpike (going from Brooklyn to Atlantic City, NJ), we were neither tolled for entering into nor leaving from food/gas plazas. My memory's foggy on that trip, so I could be mistaken. Though you definitely get tolled when you exit (except reputedly for exit #4, which my friend who lives in South Jersey claims you can take without getting tolled).