Brancatelli says one improvement he's seen at airport eateries is the rejiggering of pricing by concession owners to stop gouging travelers and instead reflect "street prices" similar to what you'd pay in a city's downtown.
In some instances, the concession owners attempted to crudely cover up their crime, including by literally staging cut down stumps on their concessions when authorities came to visit.
We do hear rumors about concession owners growing fat off their land from the comfort of their Paramaribo mansions, and about crews that make hundreds of thousands of dollars on a single strike only to piss away their earnings in a few months.
Our study is relevant for managers and other decision makers such as concession owners, conservation area managers and auditors as our results illustrate how indigenous people's knowledge can provide urgently needed data with little cost.
A further concession by owners on this point could smooth progress in negotiations and give the union an important public victory.
MARSEILLE — In a grimy corner cafe on a street above Marseille's Vieux Port, the only concession the owners have made to a strict nationwide smoking ban is to have removed the ashtrays.
Smith will need a considerable set of concessions from owners to sway his constituents, who are concerned about the injury risks two more games may generate.
"During the height of the summer months, many of the free-rent concessions and owner-paid commissions went away," Ms. Packes said.
That idea has the commissioner threatening to eliminate 50 major league jobs but withdrawing the threat if the players make the kind of economic concessions the owners will seek in talks to replace the collective bargaining agreement that expired at midnight last night.
That is the key point and it is one that those histories of the struggles for free agency across American sports also highlight – more often than not, it isn't the players who win key concessions from owners that benefit but the ones that follow them.
