Seattle Food Partners has opened a 11,647 sq ft concession in the Central Terminal at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA).
The new space is shared by Salty's at the SEA and BrewTop Social. With SEA's creation of the new mezzanine level, Seattle Food Partners was able to place BrewTop Social above Salty's, making the dining footprint in this flagship location twice as large.
Designed to echo its local waterfront restaurants, Salty's at the SEA is a seafood and steak restaurant with a regional oyster bar and full-service cocktail and sports bar, while BrewTop Social features 16 regional beer taps, offering a neighbourhood wine and beer garden vibe for a more casual experience. Although both are separate concepts offering different dining experiences, they were developed and are managed and operated by Seattle Food Partners.
The new locations provide direct access to some of the best views at the airport, with the Central Terminal's 350ft- wide, signature floor-to-ceiling window wall as a backdrop to both spaces. While dining and drinking, guests can enjoy sunrise to sunset scenic views of the Olympic Mountain range, watch planes take off and land just yards away, and pass time enjoying entertainment on the Central Terminal's portable stage.
Seattle Food Partners is a partnership between Atlanta-based Concessions International (CI), Grove Bay Hospitality, and Seattle-based Well-Buttered Bread, which is run by Kate Kingen, the daughter of the founders of the award-winning Salty's family of restaurants.
"It's often said every project has a story, no matter how small or large, but the magnitude of the Salty's/BrewTop Social project, married with the societal and economic challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, made for an extraordinary development and construction experience at SEA," said Donata Russell Ross, CI's president and CEO and majority partner with Seattle Food Partners.
"It really did take a village to show up (nearly 80 people and more than 40 different companies) to keep the project on track, and it would have never been completed without the dedication, patience, persistence and teamwork exhibited by all involved. We knew it was a project we needed to accomplish, and we navigated obstacles from day to day to see it to fruition."
Seattle Food Partners has hired and trained nearly 200 local people for the new concession.
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The magnitude of the Salty's/BrewTop Social project made for an extraordinary development and construction experience at SEA
