Percentage of incentive distribution rights issued by partnership.

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Amount of write-down of assets recognized in the income statement. Includes, but is not limited to, losses from tangible assets, intangible assets and goodwill.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Percentage investment held by the managing member or general partner of the limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP).

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Units contributed by each class of partners during the year. Units represent shares of ownership of the general, limited, and preferred partners.

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Description of Business and Other Disclosures - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($)			3 Months Ended
	May 01, 2020	Nov. 19, 2019	Mar. 31, 2020	Mar. 31, 2019
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Assets impairment charges			$ 0
Wholesale Distribution Volumes [Member] \| DMS [Member] \| Sales Revenue, Net [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage			6.00%	8.00%
Wholesale Distribution Volumes [Member] \| Circle K Stores Inc. [Member] \| Sales Revenue, Net [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage			5.00%	7.00%
Rental Income [Member] \| DMS [Member] \| Sales Revenue, Net [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage			5.00%	9.00%
Rental Income [Member] \| Circle K Stores Inc. [Member] \| Sales Revenue, Net [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage			12.00%	19.00%
Supplier Concentration Risk [Member] \| Purchases Net [Member] \| ExxonMobil, Corp [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage			24.00%	26.00%
Supplier Concentration Risk [Member] \| Purchases Net [Member] \| BP P.L.C [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage			23.00%	25.00%
Supplier Concentration Risk [Member] \| Purchases Net [Member] \| Motiva (Shell) [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage			13.00%	13.00%
Supplier Concentration Risk [Member] \| Purchases Net [Member] \| Circle K [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage			11.00%	10.00%
Supplier Concentration Risk [Member] \| Purchases Net [Member] \| Other suppliers [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage			10.00%	10.00%
Topper Group [Member] \| Subsequent Event [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Limited Liability Company (LLC) or Limited Partnership (LP), Managing Member or General Partner, Ownership Interest	48.90%
Circle K Stores Inc. [Member] \| Topper Group [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Limited Liability Company (LLC) or Limited Partnership (LP), Managing Member or General Partner, Ownership Interest		100.00%
Percentage of IDRs issued by partnership		100.00%
Circle K Stores Inc. [Member] \| Topper Group [Member] \| General Partner's Interest [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Number of common units of partnership		7,486,131