Subway Sub at LAS

[Kevin3]

Ever been to Terminal C in LAS and paid $11 for a sandwich? Price gouging at its finest. I thought the unusually high prices was the result of airport fees. Since the other food vendors charge just slightly above normal rates, it is clear that this Subway store sees the opportunity to price gouge since it is the only healthy choice in Terminal C.

Please go to Subway.com and fill out their customer comment form and protest the prices at LAS Terminal C.

Thanks!

 

[PTinbound]

I've pretty much boycotted them. LAS has the next worst food in the system next to BWI.

 

[G100driver]

Ever been to Terminal C in LAS and paid $11 for a sandwich? Price gouging at its finest. I thought the unusually high prices was the result of airport fees. Since the other food vendors charge just slightly above normal rates, it is clear that this Subway store sees the opportunity to price gouge since it is the only healthy choice in Terminal C.

Please go to Subway.com and fill out their customer comment form and protest the prices at LAS Terminal C.

Thanks!

The incorrect assumption here is subway is food. Anthing over $1.50 for bird and fish food is a crime.

 

[spinproof]

Don't know about LAS but I was talking to a GSO vendor and she said that the airport authority charged her $15,000.00/mo for her space(500 sq.ft.)! That means it cost her 500.00 a day to open the doors.

Granted she is making money or else she wouldn't be there but I can't imagine what an operator at LAS is paying!!!! Besides there is no incentive to provide a quality product!

 

[sweptback]

It's the same reason that a sandwich at the Atlanta Bread Company at ATL costs $8... little to no competition with people willing to pay just about whatever the price is. Also no airport discount either, even a meager 5% off would make me less pissed off every time I go there.

 

[GCD]

I would tend to blame the airport more than Subway.

Each Subway is individually owned, and the owner has to pay for the lease on the property. The airport authority knows they have a captive audience, and charge ourageous lease fees to venders.

Airport authorities and the members of their boards have become corrupt, money grabbing entities, which don't put back into the communities (except that they will claim jobs they create. BRAVO SIERRA! The airlines and vendors create the jobs, not the airport authority).

Take CVG, for example, ever look who is on the airport board? How about local real estate mogals. Conflict of interest? No, not according to them. They are simply helping the local economy.

OK, finished my rant. Out, here.

 

[chperplt]

LAS is much worse than most. A lot of airports have gone to normal menu pricing, but not yet here.

The only inexpensive food in the entire airport is Taco Bell in Term A. A sandwich at Quiznos in D will run you near 10 bucks. Hell, a hot dog and coke in D will run you 8. A whopper combo at BK is 7 bucks...

US Air term in LGA has to be the best. Mcdonalds has a dollar menu and most other food is very reasonable.

 

[ilkwamh2]

Granted she is making money or else she wouldn't be there...

The airlines can learn something from this lady.

-W

 

[pullmyfinger]

How about the 26.00 dozen of peel and eat shrimp at DFW? Plus tax and tip and you have a 30 buck starter.

 

[pullmyfinger]

oh...forgot the 8 dollar beer.

If Im drinking an 8 dollar beer Id better see some flesh...

 

[TR4A]

LAS is one of highest rent airports in the country. Gal at the Coffee Bean shop said that the airport gets a percentage of the sales too.

 

[Snoopy58]

For bad food, AND terrible selection, AND awful service, LAS truly takes the triple crown of miserable in my opinion. In a town that serves up buffets by the acre to tens of thousands daily, how hard should it be to get some variety & competition into the airport for food service?!?! I've been told that there are under-the-table arrangements between the contractor and the airport... but corruption in Vegas? Naw, couldn't be!!!

Those guys should take a lesson from MDW -- those guys do airport food right!

 

[RightBettor]

Sounds like the wise guys that used to run the casinos have now moved into the LAS airport. "So youse wants ta open up a food joint in da airport? We'll talk to Tony and see what we can do for ya. But it's gonna cost ya... and we don't like to be paid late! The last f*ck dat didn't pay on time ended up in a hole in da desert... and der's a lotta holes in that desert! Capisca?"

Snoopy's right... MDW... in my best Homer Simpson voice, "MMMMM, Potbelly's Wreck. AAGGGGHHHHHHHH!"

 

[Vik]

Pack your own lunch

Why? See the "Diarreah in a Freigther" thread in the Cargo forum

 

[EngineOut]

How about the 26.00 dozen of peel and eat shrimp at DFW? Plus tax and tip and you have a 30 buck starter.

Yeah, but those things are as big as my fist! (If you're talking about the Cowboys Sports Bar in A or C).

 

[FN FAL]

Ever been to Terminal C in LAS and paid $11 for a sandwich? Price gouging at its finest. I thought the unusually high prices was the result of airport fees. Since the other food vendors charge just slightly above normal rates, it is clear that this Subway store sees the opportunity to price gouge since it is the only healthy choice in Terminal C.

Please go to Subway.com and fill out their customer comment form and protest the prices at LAS Terminal C.

Thanks!

If I was making 11.00 subs...I'd have to go in back in spit in them, because as a Toby working for the 11.00 sub place, I'd never have the chance at free airline travel. But I could enjoy a free sub.

Hey...if you want a free sandwich, maybe you should get a job making subs?

 

[HMR]

You might try what I do: I went to the uniform depot by my house and bought a Subway uniform. Then I had a "Regional Manager" badge made at the trophy engraving place. It cost about $40 and has paid for itself many times over. I just slip into it Clark-Kent-style whenever I'm on a layover. It fits perfectly in the side pocket of my Purdy Neat bag. You just walk up and say "I'm from the regional office and I need to do a tasting". Voila! Free sandwich.

I got the idea from my co-pilot. He's a big fat guy. He's crazy. He just walks up and says "I'm Jared and if I don't start eating some of that low carb stuff right now, our whole advertising campaign is going down the toilet and you'll all be out of a job!"

 

[NuGuy]

LAS is one of highest rent airports in the country. Gal at the Coffee Bean shop said that the airport gets a percentage of the sales too.

TR4A is pretty close to the mark here. Most airport authorities only let one contract to provide concessions, and it usually goes to a big time vendor, who can afford the obnoxious overhead.

Even though an airport may have a Fridays, McDs, Burger Death, Starbucks, Subway and a seeming multitude of others, they are all franchised and run by the same concession operator (usually only one).

Airport operating authorities have gotten wise to the fact that the real money at the airport isn't from broke a$$ airlines, but rather the streaming multitudes of people who, while bitching about their airfare (which costs less than parking their car for 3 days), stand in line to buy $3.50 mocha lattes (its friggin coffee people) and $1.99 bottled water (bottled from municipal sources).

I had a friend who looked into opening a coffee shack in the local airport. Besides the ridiculous task of jumping through all the hoops involved with doing business with the city/county, they wanted %15 of the revenue PLUS a percentage of the profits. Hardly worth the effort .

Nu

 

[Huck]

My favorite was the Atlanta politicians who wrote laws creating "set-asides" for airport restaraunts, then retired and got leases using the very set-aside laws they wrote.

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

LAS "Port-O-SUBS"

I believe it is in front of D-3/D-4 by Burger King.