SPAIN. SSP has signed an eight-year deal to run two new Burger King outlets at Alicante Airport’s new third terminal. They are scheduled to open by April 2011.
The two restaurants will account for approximately a quarter of the catering area at the facility and will occupy nearly 1,000sq m of the 4,000sq m dedicated to food & beverage.
Located in the check-in area, the first outlet will seat 80 visitors and is expected to serve over 1,000 customers each day. A second unit, which will be situated airside in the departure hall food court, has a capacity of 200 and will serve 3,000 passengers per day.
“We have been operating Burger King successfully in Spain since 1989 at leading travel locations including South Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Málaga Airports, as well as at Alicante since 1995,” said SSP Spain Managing Director Blanca Ripoll.
“This latest deal is a reflection of our client Aena’s commitment both to the Burger King brand, and to delivering the very highest quality offers to their passengers.”
Serving over nine million passengers a year, Alicante El Altet airport is regarded as ‘the gateway to the Costa Blanca’ and is Spain’s sixth-busiest airport. The opening of the new terminal in 2011 will increase the airport’s capacity to 20 million passengers.
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The two new Burger King outlets can seat a total of 280 customers and will serve about 4,000 passengers per day |
NOTE: SSP is a Platinum Sponsor of the inaugural Airport Food & Beverage Conference & Awards, to be held by The Moodie Report at Manchester Airport on 23-25 January 2011. CEO Andrew Lynch is also among the frontline speakers.
The event will be hosted by Manchester Airport and supported by Platinum Sponsors HMSHost and SSP.
The Awards nomination deadline has been extended to October 1 but already the number and quality of entries has been impressive.
The awards cover all aspects of airport F&B operations:
1. Best Non-Alcoholic Beverage Outlet
2. Best Airport Bar
3. Best Sandwich Offer
4. Best Full Service Restaurant
5. Best Self Service/Assisted Service Food Operation
6. Best Fast Food/Quick Service Restaurant
7. Best F&B Marketing and Promotions Campaign
8. Best Supplier
9. Best Concessionaire Innovation
10. Best Airport Innovation
11. Best Design of Overall F&B facilities
12. Best F&B Employee
13. Best Outstanding Individual Contribution
14. Best Concession Programme
15. Best Concession Partner as Voted by an Airport
16. Best Overall Airport F&B Offer:
-For airports with less than 5 million passengers
-For airports with 5-10 million passengers
-For airports with 10-25 million passengers
-For airports with more than 25 million passengers
-The Best Overall F&B Offer in an Airport in the world
The “˜Early Bird’ conference registration, offering a £100 discount, has been extended to 31 October.
The Moodie Report will be in touch with all existing registrants this week to confirm the changes.
Official hotel the Radisson Blu is maintaining its preferential FAB rate at £115 including VAT and breakfast – those to have registered already with the hotel simply need to advise them of their new arrival and departure dates.
A full information pack, including entry forms, is now available for the FAB Awards that will take place at the Gala Dinner on 24 January (click on the right-hand advertisement to download). Entries have already begun to flow in.
Please visit www.kingley.co.uk/FAB for full details on hotel and delegate registration, plus programme and sponsorship details.
The event will kick off with an informal Opening Cocktail on 23 January.
About SSP
SSP is a leading operator of food & beverage brands in travel locations, operating restaurants, bars, cafes, food courts, lounges and convenience stores in airports, train stations, motorway service stations, shopping malls, conference centres and other leisure locations. SSP has 30,000 employees, serving millions of customers every week. It has business at over 140 airports and over 250 rail stations, and operates more than 2,100 units in over 30 countries around the world.
SSP operates an extensive portfolio of over 200 international, national, local and speciality brands. These include Upper Crust, Starbucks, Caffè Ritazza, Burger King, M&S Simply Food, Bonne Journée, Pizza Hut, Caviar House & Prunier, and leading Japanese noodle brand Ajisen Ramen as well as bespoke concepts such as the Montreux Jazz Café in Geneva and Sydney airports and the Bambini Wine Room, also in Sydney.
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