How to Use concessionaire in a Sentence

concessionaire

noun
  • Food and drink concessionaires, professional caterers, event planners — any purveyor that’s not a restaurant, food truck, flea market stall or food hall vendor — are also excluded from the roundup.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The state put the restaurant out for bid this spring, hoping to attract a concessionaire to run it.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 28 June 2024
  • The plaintiffs want to force the city and the concessionaire to open a Chick-fil-A at the airport — and vowed to sue any other business that tries to take its place.
    Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • But as any of those 10 concessionaires will tell you, the top three winning spots yield the highest profits.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Chairs had been placed in Madison Square Park, ruled by a concessionaire who charged 5 cents to sit, equivalent to about $1.30 now.
    Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2018
  • As part of a 2019 agreement between the two states, Maryland’s concessionaire would rebuild the bridge, and the two states’ partnerships would share the costs.
    Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The winning dish in the online bracket gets a Big Tex Choice Awards trophy and special signage for the concessionaire’s food stand in 2021.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The soccer arena has scarcely been maintained and the concessionaire has asked for such high rental rates that most teams can’t afford to play there.
    Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Embarc is the first and only cannabis concessionaire that has launched live events at such a massive scale since the pandemic.
    Jackie Bryant, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
  • As for the double-name confusion, that’s due to a trademark dispute in 2016, when a new concessionaire took over.
    Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2017
  • The concessionaires will be stocking rainbows through the end of May, and catfish stocking will begin next week.
    By Roger George and Dave Hurley, sacbee.com, 9 May 2017
  • The contest kicked off in June with 65 entries from 40 concessionaires, all required to have at least one year of experience at the State Fair of Texas.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2024
  • The airport has been funneling surplus meals from concessionaires to local food banks for the past decade.
    Port Of Seattle, The Seattle Times, 5 May 2017
  • And every year, concessionaires unload a bevy of dishes that come fried.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Gonzales will be the first to tell you that being a State Fair of Texas concessionaire for three weeks a year — while running a restaurant 365 days a year — is not pretty.
    Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Under the terms of the agreement, the South African concessionaire would build, own and operate Skytrain for an undisclosed number of years at a cost of $2.6 billion.
    Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The grounds crew covered the infield with a tarp and vanished underneath the seats as the last concessionaires exited the ballpark and the stadium lights went dark.
    Brian Murphy, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
  • The couple reached the front of the booth, which Michelle Le, a concessionaire and entrepreneur, has operated since 2011.
    Ella Quittner, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Belot said the Bucks and food concessionaire Levy have been hiring workers throughout the playoffs.
    Ricardo Torres, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2021
  • Here, the only other living creatures spending the night for 35 miles are a handful of park and concessionaire employees and the wildlife for which the park is famous.
    Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Officials made the concessionaire in question refund all customers who had been overcharged for beers in the past.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 May 2022
  • The Ravens issued a request for proposals for a concessionaire last fall.
    Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The concessionaires slip it between the hot dog and the bun, mix it into the carbonated beverages, slide it into the programs.
    James Warren, vanityfair.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Soon enough, the concessionaire caved, and the nickel chair became history.
    Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But in 2021, a longtime concessionaire with a dozen or so booths didn’t want to risk pandemic exposure, and six booths came up for grabs for new vendors.
    Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • But every year concessionaire Aramark attempts to jazz things up with new items.
    Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • But one of the current concessionaires won't get preferred status.
    Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2023
  • In 2012, the Forest Service handed Bagby to a private concessionaire to manage the site.
    oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The transformation began last summer when the zoo's food concessionaire opened The Coop and Bean Sprouts, a café with walk-up ordering windows across from the playground in the farm area.
    Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2018
  • But the restaurant also is the concessionaire throughout the zoo property.
    al, 10 Oct. 2022

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