Less stress, better food.
Those are the goals county officials could achieve for travelers passing through Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, as they look over plans Tuesday to install self-service massage chairs and to bring in new food and drink vendors.
The county is responding to complaints that the level of food and drink service at the airport is dragging.
The concessions contract has been in the same hands, Delaware North, since 1985. That may change, at least in two of the four terminals.
The massage chair proposal is a separate pilot program that could become permanent if travelers like it. Travelers would pay, and the county would get a cut of the profits. Frequent traveler and County Commissioner Ilene Lieberman said she might even try it.
“It depends how bad a day I’ve had and how tense I am,” she said.
