I am appalled at the high-price/low-quality combination of food options at many U.S. airports (including my home airport, RIC). It seems like at most airports, only one company has the concessions contract, which allows them to charge any price they want as there's no competition and a very captive clientele. In the case of RIC, the airport authority makes an automatic 10% commission on all food purchases, such as the $7.75 mini "Uno" pizza with a rubbery crust that tastes like it came right out of the microwave, and the $6.50 basket of six chicken fingers that are the same generic Tyson chicken tenders you'd find in a school cafeteria. Or at LAX you can get an $8 McDonald's extra value meal, etc.

ATL is one exception to this, probably because there are at least two companies (HMSHost and Concessions International) running the restaurants there. Competition, I'd imagine, keeps prices for food there more reasonable. The Chick-Fil-A on Concourse A, for example, seems to charge only 50 cents or so more for most items than my neighborhood Chick-Fil-A. I've also found that certain smaller airports have cheaper, but good quality, food items, such as BTV, which has a locally owned, sit-down restaurant where many items are cheaper and far better quality than the overpriced junk sold at RIC.

What are some other airports where the concessions are a relatively good value for the money?