/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19172798
Because you have no other choice. Do you want to miss your plane? No refunds faggot.

>>19172803
yeah pretty much this
unless youre buying alcohol or aftershave from an airport just avoid everything else

>>19172798
JUST EXPENSE IT

>>19172803
Guarantee there is a burger king right there.
These are for the retards who do not understand nutrition.

My last meal in Japan was some lovely airport soba.
Looks a bit nicer than that sandwich, eh

renting a location inside an airport is ungodly expensive
the bureaucracy for what is allowed and what isn't is endless and you have to hire people with that knowhow or you don't get in.
everything has to pass through tsa daily, there's little to no room for storage, so what you get in at 4am has to last you the day.
it's even worse for airport restaurants cause they have to turn out restaurant quality meals at fast food speed, there's no gas stoves, there's no resupply
unlike normal restaurants that are staffed by excons, illegals and drug addicts, working at the airport requires you to get fingerprinted by the feds.

>>19172798
The thing that pisses me off most about airport food is not the price but how terribly low the quality is.

>>19172798
Cause the sammich has to be security cleared by Shafonda at TSA.

>>19172798
>why is popcorn so expensive at the theather ?

it's called Captive market

>>19172818
that looks realy good

Because they have a captive audience. They can gouge you anything and you'll still pay.

>Duty free

>>19172803
>>19172809
This, also they don't really wanna sell that many sandwiches. It's a much better for them to sell 10 sandwiches at 15 USD than 30 at 5 USD.

Same goes for sporting events.

>>19172798
2 reasons:
many airports regulate the prices in their food courts.
you are a captive consumer.

>>19172815
the burger king at our airport has absurdly high prices.

>>19172831
Maybe you're a captive audience, I never go through security without a baguette and 300g of deli ham

>>19173151
im from UK and i recall getting a BK about 4 years ago so it was before covid
>£12 for burger and fries

>>19172867
You know whats fucked up too, it wasn't like this in Germany.
A 22oz beer was 4 euro at a soccer game, it woulda been 20 bucks stateside

>>19172798
Airport rent is normally taken as a % of profits, and businesses in airports tend to pay a lot more than typical restaurants, cafes, bars etc. The premium location is also a factor too. It's like wondering why places in the city centre of touristic locations are more expensive than villages in the middle of nowhere.

Despite the high prices, airport businesses actually don't make that much more of a profit. I worked in a place at an airport before and for every £1 a customer spent, only 10% of that is actually profit.

Airport prices don't make any sense.
>Go to amsterdam
>beer costs 5 euros in city, but 10 euros at airport
>Go to Helsinki
>beer costs 10 euros in city, but 5 euros at airport.
Both countries are in EU. What kind of fuckery is this?

If customs regulations prevent you from bringing food into the country you arrive in and you have 1 hour to catch your next flight there is pretty much no choice but overpriced airport food.

>not fasting on the days you're flying
christ this shit is so easy but everyone fucks it right up

>>19172798
Why don't you just walk to a 7-11 or something? Doordash some potbelly.

>>19172798
could be worse

>>19173464
what is health bread.

>>19173489
bread that isn't pumped full of sugar
like normal non-burgerland bread

Your trapped, I love them though, buy two and stick them in my carry on, had to sit on the runway for 10 hrs and was glad I had them
do it all the time now, never know.
Fuck it it's all an expense to write off

>>19172798
Takes longer to screen.
>t airline employee

>>19173506
>Fuck it it's all an expense to write off
That's probably the main reason they can get away with it.

>>19172819
Most of this is correct. Especially getting a SIDA badge to work at the airport but also inside the area past the checkpoint. You can bring a ton of food through the checkpoint, just not your big gulp.

I got a suitcase that is soft like a cot for when your flight is delayed 20hrs

>>19173489
>>19173494
Actually, it's bread that's exactly the same but they sprinkle in some small percentage of whole grains and caramel coloring so people think it's made from whole wheat flour.

>>19173539
Getting a SIDA is dumb easy. Some of the foreigner absolute criminal retards fresh from Somalia or Cuba or w.e I've seen doing catering and dangerous shit out in the field with their dumbshit trucks is mind boggling. Also one of the dispshits always falls off the top, or gets injured somehow, every year, lol.

>>19173564
Yep I always bring a blanket and small pillow just in case

>>19173564
God I wish I had that when my connection flight in China was delayed by over a day.

>>19173464
Is it made from Iberico ham and reggiano parmigiano cheese or something?

>>19173979
no it's just a normal ham and cheese sandwich from some NY jew
https://www.elizabar.com/eat-to-go.aspx

>>19173464
>Eli Zabar
the people who shop there wouldn't wipe their ass with a mere 30 bucks, why not gouge the fuck out of them

>>19173222
finland wants you to get wasted and then go home and leave them alone

>>19172803
Fpbp. The same reason why food at theme parks and festivals are 3x to 5x more expensive, you're not leaving to find something cheaper so they can extort you as much as they like.

>>19172818
What's that gross looking shit in the red bowl?

>>19172798
Supply and demand

>>19173673
Flying can be a nightmare
I actually thought about trying to develop a suit case that could fold out to be a full length cushion using your packed clothes as padding
So many delays and bs this year, seeing people laying on the bare floor for who knows how long got me thinking of weird shit like that

>>19174426
Too little competition

>>19174415
Katsudon, crispy pork cutlet covered with egg and onion, served on rice. The egg is often served that way, in sharp contrast to oyakodon where the egg is often barely cooked.

>>19172818
Yeah we have nice places in our airports too not all overpriced sandwiches
What does that nasty rice dish cost?

>>19174442
You sure it's the same? The mess I'm talking about is the stuff that looks like a chunk of taco swirled in some frenches dip. Also try to write like less of a faggot.

>>19174434
Good idea, you should build it.

>>19172818
Should have stayed there

>>19174460
Thanks Wouldn't know were to start, guess I could build a few in my garage and see if they sell?
Idk

>>19173171
false. beer is anywhere from 5-9$ at sports events in the states.

>>19172798
If you have ever been stuck at an airport over nite after all the restaurants close you will be glad to have one or two maybe a small bag of chips also and a bottle of water
makes it a lil less grim for the cost

>>19174500
Have a look on YouTube for how people sell inventions. I'm sure there's something there to put you in the right direction.

>>19172798
Why can't faggot OP come up with original topics?

>>19172798
Upcharging because they know you have no other choice.

>>19173458
>muh fasting
You're going through pointless security theater, getting charged out the ass for luggage, have to throw away water because the TSA agent needs to feel empowered, all to sit in a cramped seat for hours and deal with delays, and you want hunger pangs on top of all that? Do you just have a fetish for suffering?

>>19174925
>Upcharging because they know you have no other choice.
you wouldn't know this is actually illegal, under highway robbery laws, because our regulators are so broken and corrupt.

>>19173222
Where in the fuck you get beer for 5 euro at Helsinki-Vantaa airport? I'll go there, except the place doesn't exist. There's like 3 bars there anyway.

>>19172809
>alcohol
I had a $22 beer at an airport. And that was before the inflation wave.

>>19176666
Just a shop right outside the terminal? 5 euro something for a pint of Sandels. I crumpled up the can and dunked it in the trash (no deposit fee where I live) and some hobo gave me a death glare lol

>>19172798
Because airports make their profit from renting space to stores at 5 times the local rate for retail space. Store in turn have captive customers they can rip off.

>>19172798
What makes it more insulting is the sandwich on the right looks like it was made with the plainest white bread imaginable that costs like $2 a loaf Lol

>>19172819
The TSA doesn't inspect or have anything to do with the airport operation or it's staff.
The TSA are not security.

>>19174136
yep, people really don't understand that there is another echelon of society, it's gated by money.
so of course the prices are going to be obscene, that's exactly what the clientele wants.

>>19173464
As you can see on the left there isn't even that much ham or cheese in it Lol

>>19172798
Price discovery is broken.

>>19172818
Weeks should be eradicated

>>19172798

*bites into sandwich*

"Ah fuck it's actually UNDERPRICED!"

>>19174442

>>19174460
>>19174500
>>19174847
You waited too long, I just made a 3d mockup, applied to shark tank, and sucked a venture capitalist's dick.