Opening with Hope

To enjoy a coffee, a soda or to eat a sandwich at the Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires is a privilege for just a few. There are just several restaurants and about four or five cafés in the entire airport. The lack of offer appears to have a gastronomic same common denominator: exorbitant prices!!! If you can afford it, good… if not, just abstain and starve. That seams to be the message. And it is not even first class restaurants and cafés we are talking about, it just your average place with average service. So, I increasingly see families with the trunk of the car lifted making a picnic with a thermos and mate, two-litter soft drinks, cookies and sandwiches right in the parking lot of the airport while awaiting the arrival of a loved one. To give you an idea, a small coffee in Ezeiza costs $ 9 (u$d 3), and I don´t even want to mention the rest of the price list. That is why the arrival of world famous chain of fast-food McDonald’s to the airport not only promises to be an alternative for travellers and for their accompanying families and friends, but also for airport employees (specially the late since, with shifts covering 24 hours of operations, by an arbitrary decision they went to consume with discounts on all premises to be confined to just two very punctual, which are far from the workplace). So, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 and Golden Arches reported that before the end of the year the Ezeiza International Airport will have a new McDonald’s restaurant and McCafé. The restaurant will be located in Terminal B, will have an area of over 250 square meters, will employ 100 new employees and will proudly inaugurate its Golden Arches Local 181 in Argentina. I personally don´t like McDonald´s, but the question is: will this opening help lower the exorbitant prices at the airport and improve the quality of  service? We are certainly hoping it does.