City acts after egregious price-gouging emerged – such as $27.85 for a glass of Sam Adams beer at LaGuardia
“I was like, ‘That’s ridiculous,’” Lund tells the Guardian. “I didn’t tag anybody. I didn’t tag LaGuardia, I just sort of sent it for like the enjoyment of my followers, people that I know.”, and it blew up from there.
There are other reasons for high airport prices, too. Staffing an establishment for long airport hours is expensive, as industry insidersin 2015. Rent is high and recruiting is difficult. “People don’t say, ‘I want to be a chef so I’m going to go to an airport and cook,” Adam Sappington, of the Country Cat at Portland international airport, told the site.
The agency says the tweet prompted an investigation that found that “certain beer prices included an erroneously added surcharge on top of an inflated base price”, leading to 25 customers being charged “the totally indefensible amounts of $23 or $27 for a beer”.Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AFP/Getty Images
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