![]() ![]() “They’ve got you, they know you don’t have a choice.” Comparison Shopping “Oh my goodness, I thought it was going to be $2.50,” said Emily Fishman, 75, after paying $4 for a 12-ounce bottle of Minute Maid orange juice at a JFK food court during a layover on a flight to Israel. The Port Authority board last year approved airport price increases of up to 10% after voting in 2018 to increase the minimum wage for tens of thousands of airport workers to $19 an hour by 2023. Members and sponsors make THE CITY possible.Įven the updated prices at many airport businesses appear to test the limits on 2020 pricing guidelines that allow airport businesses to charge up to 10% more than “street pricing.” “Because of these posted-pricing hiccups, our in-house menu teams have been diligently working to ensure pricing across all restaurants are, in fact, rendering correctly,” said the spokesperson, Michael Marchese. One of OTG’s senior executives is Larry Schwartz, a longtime lieutenant to Governor Andrew Cuomo. “It’s just Sam Adams Summer Ale - that’s insane!” said Cooper Lund, 32, of Brooklyn, who encountered the pricey 23-ounce brew at an airport Biergarten restaurant while flying from LaGuardia earlier this month to visit family in Minnesota.Īn OTG spokesperson told THE CITY the prices on the beer at LaGuardia and fries at Newark were “incorrectly posted” and “quickly corrected” - to $18.15 and $8.45. ![]() The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey recently asked for the audit after OTG - which runs restaurants and stores at LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark airports - was flagged on Twitter by travelers outraged over a $27.85 Sam Adams Summer Ale and a $10.90 order of fries. The company that operates food and beverage concessions at the region’s three major airports has been ordered to conduct a full audit of how much it makes customers pay after being called out online for sky-high prices on beer and French fries.
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