I just had a small idea about how Shops and Restaurants could work. The room we usually zone and rent is the vending area as expected. But shops also need storage rooms to store their supplies of goods while restaurants need a kitchen and will get fresh food regularly. Also, they are supplied from areas not walked by normal passengers as they do not want to see trolleys stuffed with newspapers, bins with waste food and stuff.
Either one could have the zoned shop/restaurant ‘over-zone’ with an area dedicated for storage or kitchen and put shelves, stoves and similar into it (new items). We could request a second kind of door only accessible for service and staff to access these areas. This is also, from where food and goods are delivered so we might need to plan our airport regarding to this to include a service area, where delivery vans can unload, garbage vans haul the garbage and so on and connect it to service roads externally and with special corridors (catacombs) to the stores and restaurants.
The other way would be zoning specifically new rooms for that prupose.
There will be new objects. For kitchen: Waste Bin, Refrigerator, Oven, Shelfs etc… Franchise staff will have interaction with them (Like how they go and wait in front of cash register). It is up to player to place them. Also user can mark these areas as “staff area” so PAX won’t get there.
For shops: Well… current shelfs can be placed in staff area.
That would be a good solution for the time being, but will not tackle the issue of having services for the airport that the PAX will not see, as they are hidden from sight like delivering new goods via backdoors, garbage disposal, cleaning and stuff. There is a whole layer of infrastructure missing currently for the people working in an airport. We have the passengers dealt with just fine.
Yes I liked the idea! But I believe isn’t a service who shop and restaurants should pay!! In ny opinion would be free extra charge what they already pay for airport!