San Antonio City Council awarded Host True Flavors and Paradies Lagardere the food and beverage concession contract and the retail concession contract, respectively, for San Antonio International Airport during its Nov. 21 meeting.

Long story short

Host True Flavors will implement nine restaurant concepts in 11,836 square feet, while Paradies Lagardere will implement seven retail concepts and vending machines in 8,217 square feet.

According to a presentation by Jesus Saenz, director of airports for the city of San Antonio, both packages are composed of roughly 70% local concepts.

Food and beverage package includes:
  • Horseshoe Tequila Bar and satellite bar in Terminal A
  • Panda Express in Terminal A
  • TRE Pizzeria in Terminal A
  • Freight Fried Chicken in Terminal A
  • Pharm Table in Terminal A
  • Dunkin' in Terminal B
  • Southerleigh Fine Food and Brewery in Terminal B
According to city documents, the food and beverage package will bring in a minimum annual guarantee of $2 million with projected revenues over a 10-year period of $24.8 million.


Retail package includes:
  • Military City USA in Terminal B
  • Feliz Modern in Terminal B
  • iStore Express in Terminal B
  • Prickly Pear Provisions between terminals
  • 210 Exchange in Terminal A
  • Univision in Terminal A
  • Self-service kiosks in Terminal A
According to city documents, the retail package will bring in a minimum annual guaranteed revenue of $2.67 million and projected revenues over a 10-year period of $29.6 million.

Revenues generated from these contracts are estimated to bring over $54 million over a 10-year period, which will be deposited in the Airport Operating and Maintenance Fund.

Meeting highlights

Though the original bidding process contained a requirement that the two food and beverage concession packages would not be awarded to the same company, District 3 council member Phyllis Viagran introduced an amendment prior to the vote that granted Host True Flavors both packages.


District 9 council member John Courage said he disagreed with the amendment because it changed procedures agreed upon earlier in the process. He also noted that the second contract was supposed to enter another bidding process to allow other companies an opportunity to bid.

“I cannot vote to approve the amendment because I think we should go through with the process we put in place,” Courage said.

District 1 council member Sukh Kaur disagreed with Courage, noting that the decision allows the SA Airport officials to negotiate the packages with the group that scored the highest during the bidding process.

The amendment passed in a 10-1 vote, with Courage voting against it, and the main motion granting the contracts passed unanimously.


Stay tuned

SA Airport officials will continue negotiations with both companies prior to the finalization of the contracts.