A familiar restaurant brand is trying to dethrone Pappasito’s as the No. 1 restaurant at DFW International Airport and become the king of on-the-fly eating.
With five restaurants at DFW Airport, TGI Fridays and its standard American food fare may have found the sweet spot for travelers with burgers, chicken, pasta and steaks.The expanded eatery in Terminal B expanded from 156 to 220 seats, making it one the largest restaurants by seating not just within Friday’s slate of airport restaurants, but across the chain’s entire 700-location footprint.
, it also pulls in massive spending before anyone gets on an airplane. DFW’s restaurants, stores and services registered $891.7 million in sales in 2022, the most in airport history. The leaders are rental car companies, travel security firm Clear and a currency exchange firm, but restaurants such as Houston-based Pappasito’s and TGI Fridays’ Terminal E and C locations had more than $10 million in gross sales in 2022, according to public records requested byThe Terminal C TGI Fridays was the highest-grossing restaurant at the airport in 2022 with $10.7 million in sales, but has fallen slightly behind the Terminal A Pappasito’s in 2023 through the month of May.
Restaurants pulled in the biggest sales, but stores do well too. Convenience store chain 7-Eleven’s Terminal D store was the top-grossing store, followed by the Dallas-based chain’sCenter Duty Free in Terminal D, the international section of the airport, is also among the biggest stores by sales volume with $5.1 million in 2022 revenue.To view the complete list of stores and restaurants and how much they made in 2022 and through May 2023, check out our list below..
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