Travelers at US Airports Can Now Get Food Delivered to Their Gate
You’ll be able to order gate-side food delivery at some of the busiest terminals in North America, from JFK to Chicago O’Hare.
Yume at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston is one of the 350 outlets pivoting to mobile.
Source: OTG
The days of iPad ordering at airport restaurants are nearly over. From Aug. 14, airport concessionaire OTG Management is retiring the 21,000 Apple Inc. devices powering orders across 350 venues and 23 terminals, in North American airports including JFK, LaGuardia and Newark. In their place will be the phone already in your pocket.
It means you can get your breakfast bagel delivered gate-side, order Artichoke pizza while watching the minutes tick by at a TSA checkpoint, or reserve your Starbucks latte from 30,000 feet in the air, for pickup the minute you land. Like with Grubhub or DoorDash, payment is via Apple Pay or credit card. But unlike with those services, travelers won’t have to download an app to place their airport food order—OTG thinks few people travel frequently enough to warrant that. Instead, menus will be available via QR codes displayed around terminals and airport restaurants, as well as on a centralized website.