Unfortunately, LAX already does have $15 pre-packaged turkey sandwiches in Terminal 5. Thankfully, there’s a chick-fil-A and Einstein’s in brand-new Terminal 1 with reasonable prices. This motivates me to fly southwest more often.

Haven't seen airport-only chains in Europe, do they exist here?

In Stockholm (Arlanda) there is standard McDonald's (among other chains) in the terminal.

Not aware of an airport-only chain there either, but European airports night not need them since they tend to funnel you through massive duty-free shopping malls. It will forever be a mystery to be who buys all that shit and keeps these stores in business. A bottle of liquor would need to be at a ridiculous price for me to deal with the hassle of transporting it back from an international trip.

Ha, you should watch slavic tourists in those duty frees (source: l’m slav) - a bottle of any above-cheap imported alcohol might be 10$+ cheaper there, nice cologne would save you even more and has higher chance of not being a knockoff from Asia. When they have a chance to save few dozen bucks - they do and I don’t see what’s bad about it, maybe apart from overflows in baggage compartments. I imagine folks like Swedes with alcohol monopoly and pretty fly taxes on alco would understand this too

Chinese tourists are probably the #1 customers. The most savvy stores will have Mandarin-speaking staff!

I often buy local alcohol in the airport (instead of having to take a checked-in luggage).

In Houston, they have a single city contractor operate all the concessions under the different branded establishments at each airport.

It's the biggest-ticket way to do it, therefore it should provide the biggest bonus for some individual. Maybe even more than one individual could be intended to share the glory.

The long-time franchisee was a very well-established & respected Houston-based restaurant corp that came in a decade ago on their strength of multiple local restaurants of various cuisines which were popular, successful, and affordable for at least occasional dining for most Houstonians.

This could not hold up, recently dethroned by a nationwide airport-centric conractor with a deal crafted to compete on purely financial terms.

related:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pappas-sues-houston-over-h...

> actually furnish the airport with places that exist out in the real world

I clearly remember a Burger King in one of Moscow airports, probably DME. It is a regular Burger King serving everything one would expect, except the 1.5x prices.

In Australia most of the airports have Macca's or KFC selling at street prices. I think that sets precedent for the other food outlets to not price gouge.

There is a Burger King in sfo. But yea more pricey

There is a Wendy's in the Vegas airport. It's conveniently located next to a bar

  who tf is wolfgang puck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Puck

Just a guy who's got three Michelin starred restaurants.

Indeed. But of course none of them are in airports.

I think he has an airport restaurant out in Seattle proper

The airport in Seattle proper (Boeing Field) didn't have any restaurants when I was there last. Perhaps you're thinking of the airport in the city of SeaTac?

My spouse and I met in Portland and lived there for almost a decade. Every once in awhile we get a craving for Burgerville and haha-only-serious joke about flying to PDX and back with just enough time to eat at the airside location.

Thus far we have suppressed the urge.