Originally Posted by
knope2001
Although it's no good for the people who worked at either of those places, of course, neither is a big loss.
Losing Johnny B's, Usinger's or Nona (the Bartolotta restaurant) would be a bigger blow as they are larger and more distinctive.
Joe Bartolotta, who helped develop Nonna's with operator SSP and gets a percentage of the sales, has acknowledged the great slump in business. After opening about 3-1/2 years ago, traffic at Nonna's was so active, that the additional seating area was opened. Now, there's never a problem seating a customer in the original space. Bartolotta indicated that he's hoping another carrier(s) can be moved over or brought in to provide more traffic on Concourse D. How long can vendors on the concourse remain open, when they are obviously sustaining losses from lack of customers on the once busiest concourse at the airport? Incentive for connecting traffic from Concourse C to visit Concourse D is gone, since new food options opened on C.
Frontier has about four years left on its gate/counter lease at MKE.