Posted on 05/18/2022 2:44:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey recently announced a number of new measures to rein in pricing at airports after a traveler saw beer being sold at LaGuardia Airport for $28 last year.
Authorities said the Aviation Department has “significantly enhanced” compliance with the fair market pricing policy for goods sold in airport concessionaires. This means that no item should be sold above local “street prices” with a 10% maximum surcharge. The policy also requires vendors to offer lower-priced options.
The most popular craft brewery in every state, according to Yelp Revisions to the Concessionaire Street Pricing Standards and Procedures Manual came after the Office of Inspector General received reports of policy violations, including the traveler’s complaint on social media last year regarding the overpriced beer.
Along with his complaint, the traveler shared a photo of the beer menu, which showed beer prices ranging from $13.05 to $27.85 per glass at the LaGuardia restaurant. He also alleged that the restaurant was charging a “10% recovery fee.”
OTG, which operated the restaurant that sold the beer, had overly charged 25 customers, according to the Office of Inspector General. As a corrective measure, all patrons were contacted and were given refunds for the “totally indefensible” prices, the Port Authority said.
Why isn’t beer sold in plastic bottles like soda? The Office of Inspector General further determined that a former version of the pricing policy was too unclear for concessionaires to comply with. Moving forward, the Aviation Department will regularly check the prices of goods being sold.
“All airport customers should rightly expect that policies which limit the pricing of food and beverages at concessions will be followed and enforced,” Port Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole said in a statement. “Nobody should have to fork over such an exorbitant amount for a beer.”
The Aviation Department held an initial round of workshops to explain the new policies to terminal operators and vendor managers.
No one is forcing you to buy a $28 beer. Just say NO.
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As long as the price is clearly visible before ordering.
Hell, I had an $8 hotdog for lunch today.
What if they are an alcoholic?
“What if they are an alcoholic?”
Then consider $28 for a beer a ‘Stupid Tax’.
You beat me to it.
Red solo cup, I fill you up
Let’s have a party, let’s have a party
I love you, red solo cup, I lift you up,
Proceed to party, proceed to party
Yeah. Hamburgers at sit down restaurants are bumpin 12 bucks these days
Among airline pilots, it’s called ‘LaGarbage’. As opposed to ‘Dirt City’.
Has anyone been to Tropicana Field recently?
Forget the $25 parking, but everything there is $9.
Beer, pretzel, hot dog, and natchos. Water is $8.
Go Rays!
5.56mm
Right.
“which showed beer prices ranging from $13.05 to $27.85 per glass at the LaGuardia restaurant. He also alleged that the restaurant was charging a “10% recovery fee.”
OK, $25+ a beer they might want to ‘recover’ some of it, but who is going to want to go collect it? The Naughty Nurse? Is 10% going to be enough?
The Port Authority makes a comment about a $28 beer but no comment on charging drivers $16 to cross a bridge or through a tunnel, much less a comment about charging a tractor-trailer driver $110 to drive across a bridge or through a tunnel.
That’s not much worse than the $6.16 I paid for a bottle of water at the MGM National Harbor casino yesterday afternoon...
Nobody MAKES you drink beer at an airport. I believe in the free market. In fact, drunk airplane passengers are the cause of most in-air disturbances. They’re doing everyone a favor keeping the prices that high.
I had a 10 dollar Budweiser at a motorcycle road race. And a couple 12.50 mixed drinks after that!
Totally corrupt. And it’s a racket. In early 2019 I flew out of La Guardia on a business trip. Go into the bar. Ask the bartender for a Screwdriver. He says, “you gotta order it on the iPad and swipe your credit card”. I was like “seriously dude, you can’t just pour me a drink”? Nope. So I ordered it. $19 and change. For 1 shot of vodka and orange juice.
Long story short, flight delayed, went to 3 different bars in the terminal, all had the same stupid iPad ordering thing, and all had the same prices. Even the sushi bar they had in the airport.
Like with concessions at sport venues, concerts and other events that have a major amount of foot traffic you pay major bucks for the location and you have to do quite a bit of juggling to get your equipment into the tiny space.
You are also paying more for utilities, your shipping prices are up and you have to pay employees higher wages because of the drive and other expenses they have. You also have to have more employees because you can not risk having your place uncovered.
Once you got that set up you might be able to pull in some serious cash because you have a lot of foot traffic.
Of course it is like any business, you can price yourself out of the market. And people may just decide not to buy.
Your best items are coffee and fresh pastries with other hot food following.
You used to make money on people who would come in with the passengers waiting for the flight but that is mostly gone now.
I have a solution to that problem as well. Whatever the market will bear. My market is staying home.
Noticed that. Same thing at many venues. They also suggest a variety of tips no less than 18%
I remember traveling after WTC / 9-11. The confiscated my lighter at screening but then sold me a book of matches for $2.
You can’t fix stupid.
Last year. Not the current bout of inflation.
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