They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their
caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made some. of
course it was at the airport. BG

On 17 Dec 2003 08:50:49 GMT, oads (BillKirch) wrote:

>They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their
>caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made some. of
>course it was at the airport.

That's $2.25 each, which isn't much higher than the price at the mall
I've only bought a Cinnabon once, but it was pretty pricey. And at
least twice the size of a regular cinnamon bun. Really yummy, too.

Almost anything purchased at an airport is high priced and low quality.
Usually, airport food concessions and all concessions are tendered which
means the lowest bidder does not win. There is usually a lot of graft and
corruption involved. My advise, bring a sandwich.

Farmer John

On 12/17/2003 5:49 AM Ted shuffled out of his cave and grunted these
great (and sometimes not so great) words of knowledge:

You need to check your math. They are $2.75 apiece (which still isn't
all that bad)


> On 17 Dec 2003 08:50:49 GMT, oads (BillKirch) wrote:
>
>>They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their
>>caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made some. of
>>course it was at the airport.
>
> That's $2.25 each, which isn't much higher than the price at the mall
> I've only bought a Cinnabon once, but it was pretty pricey. And at
> least twice the size of a regular cinnamon bun. Really yummy, too.

"BillKirch" > wrote in message
...
> They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their
> caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made
some. of
> course it was at the airport. BG

On a positive note -- these franchises have conditioned people to pay a lot
for a cinnamon roll. They are very inexpensive and easy to make.
Therefore, when someone wants an item for a bake sale, I make large cinnamon
rolls. For a couple of dollars you can make an entire half-sheet pan of
cinnamon rolls that can bring in $20+ dollars. For $5 you can make an apple
pie that will bring in $7.50!!! The choice is easy.

"Fudge" > writes:
>
>Usually, airport food concessions and all concessions are tendered which
>means the lowest bidder does not win. There is usually a lot of graft and
>corruption involved. My <U>advise</U>, bring a sandwich.
>
>Farmer John

See, there's that "ii"* thingie again.
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:03:45 GMT, Ted Campanelli
> wrote:

(Frogleg wrote)
>
>
>> On 17 Dec 2003 08:50:49 GMT, oads (BillKirch) wrote:
>>
>>>They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their
>>>caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made some. of
>>>course it was at the airport.
>>
>> That's $2.25 each, which isn't much higher than the price at the mall
>> I've only bought a Cinnabon once, but it was pretty pricey. And at
>> least twice the size of a regular cinnamon bun. Really yummy, too.

>You need to check your math. They are $2.75 apiece (which still isn't
>all that bad)

You're absolutely right. I couldn't find 'accessories' in my program
menu, although I *did* try. Will have to check at the mall (post
holiday) to find out how much they are there. Supermarket has a dozen
(I think) pastries for $4-5 which are perfectly vile. I'd rather get a
Cinnabon. I can make it last. :-)
>

Fudge wrote:
> Almost anything purchased at an airport is high priced and low quality.
> Usually, airport food concessions and all concessions are tendered which
> means the lowest bidder does not win. There is usually a lot of graft and
> corruption involved. My advise, bring a sandwich.


I've wondered about this. A few years ago I was on the airport shuttle
bus to Logan Airport in Boston. A sign in the bus said something about
how the prices in the airport were supposed to be the same as other area
prices and gave a phone number on where to report violations. I didn't
pay it too much attention. In fact, I'm not even certain that's exactly
what it said. I was just bored and reading the signs in the bus.

We got to the airport and were waiting in the long line for security. I
was quite hungry. I looked over the baked goods at the Starbucks and
thought they didn't look that good. This was odd because I couldn't
have said exactly what was wrong with them, not by sight. I've liked
the cookies and cakes at other Starbucks around town, and these looked
the same-- but different. I couldn't explain it even now. I bought a
cake-like breakfast roll. It tasted like sugar and sawdust, truly
inedible even for someone who was hungry. I chose to throw it out. I
figure it is easier to recover from hunger (just eat) than from horrible
food (hours of stomahache).

That's when I thought of the sign in the bus. This roll looked like the
same thing sold in town, cost the same amount, but obviously was made
from inferior ingredients that I could taste. I can't be sure, but I'd
say it had shortening, not butter, extra sugar instead of flour, and
something different about the flour, maybe preservatives or a binder
that glued the sugar and sawdust together. It is hard to say since I'd
never tasted anything remotely that bad.

I can only guess that this is an example of the corruption you're
talking about. A perfectly good law was put into place to make sure
customers captive at the airport didn't get ripped off, and someone
found a way to dodge the law.

--Lia

Julia Altshuler > writes:
> I've wondered about this. A few years ago I was on the airport
> shuttle bus to Logan Airport in Boston. A sign in the bus said
> something about how the prices in the airport were supposed to be the
> same as other area prices and gave a phone number on where to report
> violations.

Boston Logan has a "Street Pricing" policy which states that "Street
Pricing Policy requires all airport food and retail merchants offer
goods and service at prices similar to prices found at comparable
locations in the Boston and Cambridge area". Further reading
indicates that "comparable locations" include mall food courts.

So they can gouge, as long as the local malls are gouging, too.

A lot of airports have these policies, but they are mostly lip
service. I know Detroit and Vancouver gave up on theirs since it
wasn't working.

Although I've seen it work in Phoenix, where in the late '90s Terminals
2 and 3 had such a policy, whiile the larger Terminal 4 didn't, and
there was a ~15% difference in prices at the Burger Kings.

--
Richard W Kaszeta

http://www.kaszeta.org/rich

BillKirch wrote:
> They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their
> caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made some. of
> course it was at the airport. BG

That is a lot of nerve considering the boxes are the day old ones.


Seattlejo

On 17 Dec 2003 08:50:49 GMT, oads (BillKirch) wrote:

>They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their
>caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made some. of
>course it was at the airport. BG

I buy the minibons unless there's someone around to split the
full-size with. (The regular ones are way too big for me.) They are
sooo good. It's possible that I might be able to make them as
delicious for less money per roll. But then I would have 12 of them
instead of one (and one is all I want) and the total cost would be
greater. Then you factor in the planning, shopping, mixing, baking,
and cleaning up. Just for one cinnamon roll? $2.75 looks a lot
better :>

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

And most people do not buy 4 at once... A guy at work used to bring me and
a gal I worked with each a bun similar in size to a Cinabon for lunch. That
was all we ate with some coffee..noshed on it all afternoon. it was
wonderful.

--

Laura


"Curly Sue" > wrote in message
...
> On 17 Dec 2003 08:50:49 GMT, oads (BillKirch) wrote:
>
> >They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their
> >caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made
some. of
> >course it was at the airport. BG
>
> I buy the minibons unless there's someone around to split the
> full-size with. (The regular ones are way too big for me.) They are
> sooo good. It's possible that I might be able to make them as
> delicious for less money per roll. But then I would have 12 of them
> instead of one (and one is all I want) and the total cost would be
> greater. Then you factor in the planning, shopping, mixing, baking,
> and cleaning up. Just for one cinnamon roll? $2.75 looks a lot
> better :>
>
> Sue(tm)
> Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Richard Kaszeta wrote:

> Boston Logan has a "Street Pricing" policy which states that "Street
> Pricing Policy requires all airport food and retail merchants offer
> goods and service at prices similar to prices found at comparable
> locations in the Boston and Cambridge area". Further reading
> indicates that "comparable locations" include mall food courts.
>
> So they can gouge, as long as the local malls are gouging, too.
>
> A lot of airports have these policies, but they are mostly lip
> service. I know Detroit and Vancouver gave up on theirs since it
> wasn't working.


Interesting. Thanks for the info.

I've started to wonder about that breakfast roll I bought. It was as
though someone gave himself a challenge to design a roll that looked
like other rolls and was technically food meaning that it wasn't poison
and did have some caloric content but that otherwise was made from the
cheapest possible ingredients in the cheapest possible manner. Then
you'd have that roll I bought in the airport.

Musing on this further. I've bought similar looking rolls in other
Starbucks around town, and they've been good. I don't normally go to
Starbucks in malls so I can't compare with those. What if the market
was so good in the airport that it came out advantageous to the company
to sell the bad rolls in a few mall outlets just so they could say they
sold them elsewhere (even if sales were few and far between) and then
make all their money in the airport?.

--Lia

Richard Kaszeta wrote:
>
> Julia Altshuler > writes:
> > I've wondered about this. A few years ago I was on the airport
> > shuttle bus to Logan Airport in Boston. A sign in the bus said
> > something about how the prices in the airport were supposed to be the
> > same as other area prices and gave a phone number on where to report
> > violations.
>
> Boston Logan has a "Street Pricing" policy which states that "Street
> Pricing Policy requires all airport food and retail merchants offer
> goods and service at prices similar to prices found at comparable
> locations in the Boston and Cambridge area". Further reading
> indicates that "comparable locations" include mall food courts.
>
> So they can gouge, as long as the local malls are gouging, too.
>
> A lot of airports have these policies, but they are mostly lip
> service. I know Detroit and Vancouver gave up on theirs since it
> wasn't working.
>
> Although I've seen it work in Phoenix, where in the late '90s Terminals
> 2 and 3 had such a policy, whiile the larger Terminal 4 didn't, and
> there was a ~15% difference in prices at the Burger Kings.
>
> --
> Richard W Kaszeta


The London airports have the same sort of policy, which is enforced.
Have never tried a Cinnbon thing. The smell of them at any airport food
court has always put me off. Flying doesn't do great things for my
stomach anyway LOL!

Frogleg > wrote in message >. ..
> On 17 Dec 2003 08:50:49 GMT, oads (BillKirch) wrote:
>
> >They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their
> >caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made some. of
> >course it was at the airport.
>
> That's $2.25 each, which isn't much higher than the price at the mall
> I've only bought a Cinnabon once, but it was pretty pricey. And at
> least twice the size of a regular cinnamon bun. Really yummy, too.

We have three Cinnabon places here in Honduras - two in San Pedro Sula
and one in Tegucigalpa. I pay about $7 (depends on the fluctuating
exchange rate)for a box of four including the extra frosting. Since we
live 2 hours from SPS, when we go, we buy a box and split it amongst
all the cinnamon roll junkies we know. I usually take a half, the kid
gets one and a halfand a family friend gets the other two - one when
we get home, one for breakfast the next day.

Sandi

BillKirch wrote:

> They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their
> caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made
some. of
> course it was at the airport. BG


That combo smell of Cinnabon and jet fuel always makes me gag.

--
Best
Greg

S.Dunlap wrote:

> We have three Cinnabon places here in Honduras - two in San Pedro Sula
> and one in Tegucigalpa. I pay about $7 (depends on the fluctuating
> exchange rate)for a box of four including the extra frosting. Since we
> live 2 hours from SPS, when we go, we buy a box and split it amongst
> all the cinnamon roll junkies we know. I usually take a half, the kid
> gets one and a halfand a family friend gets the other two - one when
> we get home, one for breakfast the next day.


Man, $7.00 sounds kinda expensive for a place like Honduras - do they cater
to mostly an ex - pat crowd?

--
Best
Greg

In article <Y95Eb.73112$8y1.273435@attbi_s52>, Julia Altshuler > wrote:

> I've started to wonder about that breakfast roll I bought. It was as
> though someone gave himself a challenge to design a roll that looked
> like other rolls and was technically food meaning that it wasn't poison
> and did have some caloric content but that otherwise was made from the
> cheapest possible ingredients in the cheapest possible manner. Then
> you'd have that roll I bought in the airport.

Probably the same firm that designs the breakfast pastries for
Panera. They all *look* nice, but you find they have the wrong
consistancy. It does go well with their version of esspresso
drinks, though--they're both bad.

I second the recommendation to just bring something to the
airport with you. You probably pass by several excellent
food places on the way. Of course, I'm always late....

Mike Beede

Mike Beede wrote:

> I second the recommendation to just bring something to the
> airport with you. You probably pass by several excellent
> food places on the way. Of course, I'm always late....



The trouble with bringing something to the airport is that I've usually
gone out of my way to empty my refrigerator before leaving town, and I'm
normally busy with a thousand last minute things to do before flying.
Planning on a meal, even a simple portable snack, is enough to send me
over the edge. Then add to that the need to get up early to accomodate
the flight and the lines so there's nothing open at the time I'm
traveling. By the time I get to the airport, I'm glad to pay high
prices for something to eat. My best bet for something that will be
available at the airport at all hours, good enough quality, not stomach
ache material and will stave off hunger for just long enough is, oddly
enough, chocolate. It has enough calories to keep me going and is sold
with the newspapers and magazines.

--Lia

"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message ink.net>...
> S.Dunlap wrote:
>
> > We have three Cinnabon places here in Honduras - two in San Pedro Sula
> > and one in Tegucigalpa. I pay about $7 (depends on the fluctuating
> > exchange rate)for a box of four including the extra frosting. Since we
> > live 2 hours from SPS, when we go, we buy a box and split it amongst
> > all the cinnamon roll junkies we know. I usually take a half, the kid
> > gets one and a halfand a family friend gets the other two - one when
> > we get home, one for breakfast the next day.
>
>
> Man, $7.00 sounds kinda expensive for a place like Honduras - do they cater
> to mostly an ex - pat crowd?

Nope, not particularly. In fact I rarely see ex-pats there. Cinnabon
shops are are located in the malls - which cater to upscale Hondurans.
The stores in the mall specialize in imported Italian suits, French
perfumes, Rockport shoes, OshKosh and Stride Rite for kids, Sony
computers and audiovideo equipment, etc.

Sandi

I'm guessing now 2.50 is not to far from the ones at a mall possibly.. I go
for greasy fatty food at the , but not sweats so have never looked at the
prices. but a store that only sells cinnamon rolls..or primarily sells
them, to shoppers? 2.50 would probably be about the price..

--

Laura


"Arri London" > wrote in message
...
> Richard Kaszeta wrote:
> >
> > Julia Altshuler > writes:
> > > I've wondered about this. A few years ago I was on the airport
> > > shuttle bus to Logan Airport in Boston. A sign in the bus said
> > > something about how the prices in the airport were supposed to be the
> > > same as other area prices and gave a phone number on where to report
> > > violations.
> >
> > Boston Logan has a "Street Pricing" policy which states that "Street
> > Pricing Policy requires all airport food and retail merchants offer
> > goods and service at prices similar to prices found at comparable
> > locations in the Boston and Cambridge area". Further reading
> > indicates that "comparable locations" include mall food courts.
> >
> > So they can gouge, as long as the local malls are gouging, too.
> >
> > A lot of airports have these policies, but they are mostly lip
> > service. I know Detroit and Vancouver gave up on theirs since it
> > wasn't working.
> >
> > Although I've seen it work in Phoenix, where in the late '90s Terminals
> > 2 and 3 had such a policy, whiile the larger Terminal 4 didn't, and
> > there was a ~15% difference in prices at the Burger Kings.
> >
> > --
> > Richard W Kaszeta
>
>
> The London airports have the same sort of policy, which is enforced.
> Have never tried a Cinnbon thing. The smell of them at any airport food
> court has always put me off. Flying doesn't do great things for my
> stomach anyway LOL!

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:10:35 GMT, Julia Altshuler
> wrote:

>The trouble with bringing something to the airport is that I've usually
>gone out of my way to empty my refrigerator before leaving town, and I'm
>normally busy with a thousand last minute things to do before flying.
>Planning on a meal, even a simple portable snack, is enough to send me
>over the edge.

While Calvin Trillin prepares for longish (or even short) airplane
journeys with an emergency run to all his favorite NYC food purveyers
to stock up against possible famine, it takes about 6 hrs to fly from
(US) coast to coast. I believe even in these days of no-frills travel,
airlines supply *some* nourishment on long flights. How bloody starved
can one *get* in 4-5 hours?! Make a sandwich, f'r heaven's sake. Pack
a 'breakfast bar.' Airline travel is rarely a gourmet experince. Nor
is going to work every day with a 30-minute lunch hour. Nor spending a
morning or afternoon (or both) doing yardwork and errands.