How do you eat at an airport restaurant if you have no where to fly?

[Tommy2000GT]

Since security check point only lets you through if you have plane ticket. How do you get past it if you just want to eat at an airport restaurant?

 

[OverVolt]

If you see something say something! :awe: Why would anyone want to eat at an airport restaurant!?

(I'm kidding, btw)

 

[Tommy2000GT]

If you see something say something! :awe: Why would anyone want to eat at an airport restaurant!?

(I'm kidding, btw)

There is this nice sushi restaurant named Ebisu in SFO

 

[MrPickins]

You don't.

 

[KeithTalent]

There is this nice sushi restaurant named Ebisu in SFO

Go to one of the other two locations they have in San Francisco?

KT

 

[Mermaidman]

Buy a fully refundable plane ticket. Check in, get boarding pass, go through security, get refund for ticket, eat sushi.

Pro-Tip: The ticket should be for First Class so that you can use the shorter security line.

 

[Tommy2000GT]

Go to one of the other two locations they have in San Francisco?

KT

too far away

 

[MiniDoom]

too far away

what? you're willing to wait in the security line for over an hour and get violated by the tsa but won't drive within an hour to another part of the city?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

too lazy

FTFY

 

[Craig234]

Ask the security staff how.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Airport restaurants are almost always just offshoots of existing restaurants with lower quality and higher prices. You eat there because you have to, not because it's desirable.

 

[CA19100]

Craving a New York Slice?

 

[Midwayman]

Airport restaurants are almost always just offshoots of existing restaurants with lower quality and higher prices. You eat there because you have to, not because it's desirable.

Maybe he likes the atmosphere of despair you get at an airport?

 

[ImpulsE69]

Nothing says fine dining like a full body cavity search.

 

[zinfamous]

too far away

horseshit.

 

[PowerYoga]

ask your "girlfriend" what you should do.

 

[kranky]

Airport restaurants are almost always just offshoots of existing restaurants with lower quality and higher prices. You eat there because you have to, not because it's desirable.

Yes, do not expect an airport location of a chain to be equal to the other locations. Think about it - do they need to care if you ever come back? Their number one motivation is speed, because that's what airport customers care about. Quality and atmosphere.... no.

 

[Jeffg010]

I'll say one thing Pittsburgh international airport was pretty damn nice when it was built in 1992. It was called an airmall and was pretty nice place to shop with over 100 shops. Then 911 came along and that was the end of that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_International_Airport

 

[Jeffg010]

Yes, do not expect an airport location of a chain to be equal to the other locations. Think about it - do they need to care if you ever come back? Their number one motivation is speed, because that's what airport customers care about. Quality and atmosphere.... no.

Have you ever been to Pittsburgh international airport? You even live in the Pittsburgh area.

quote from wiki

"The AirMall at the airport also provided several world firsts in both featuring fair "street prices" to air travelers and being the first major and diverse shopping center located within an airport terminal when it opened in 1992 with over 100 name brand retailers.[59] Pittsburgh's AirMall has been internationally recognized for its retail operations, such as four straight first-place rankings by Airport Revenue News from 2003 through 2006.[60]

Upon opening in 1992, local shoppers were able to visit the AirMall without a boarding pass. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, only ticketed passengers and airport and airline employees were able to enter the AirMall. Business dropped considerably due to the tighter regulations, although business later re-gained to pre-9/11 levels."

 

[BUTCH1]

Why would one bother unless way overpriced food is what you crave. The Orlando airport has the typical fare that can be bought after you've passed the TSA area, Mc'D's, Subway, DD, ect. but all of them are almost 30-40% higher priced than regular ones, it's a "captive audience" thing, pay the overcharges or leave the terminal area to get food and go through security all over again.

 

[MotionMan]

what? you're willing to wait in the security line for over an hour and get violated by the tsa but won't drive within an hour to another part of the city?

It is not "another part of the city", it is in an entirely different city (a couple cities away).

It is about 14 miles form SFO to either of the San Francisco locations - in the Bay Area, that could easily be more than an hour.

MotionMan

 

[AreaCode707]

There is this nice sushi restaurant named Ebisu in SFO

Uh... Compared to all the other sushi places in SFO? Ebisu isn't bad for airport food, but it's not worth the hassle of going through security for (if you could even do so without a boarding pass, which I don't think you can.) Go to Koo or something.

 

[ElFenix]

i've been let through security twice without a plane ticket, once to get something i'd left on a plane from the gate, and once to buy a trinket for a girl that she'd expressed interest in when we'd flown from there.

 

[who?]

The Albuquerque sunport has had a great restaurant before security but they don't want you taking your luggage upstairs so if you want to eat while you're waiting for the shuttle to Santa Fe you have to ignore the rule and hope they don't hassle you.

 

[dud]

Since security check point only lets you through if you have plane ticket. How do you get past it if you just want to eat at an airport restaurant?

I just don't know what to say ...