How to Use concessionaire in a Sentence
concessionaire
noun-
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 -
The restaurant is operated by the airport’s concessionaire, High Flying Foods.
— John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024 -
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
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