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This is an observation and I guess a question. How can there be a brand new free standing McDonald's built on Paseo Colon in less than three months and at the SJO airport the food court cannot be completed in six months or more?

Simple - McDonalds has money and is a private enterprise. The SJO airport has no money and is run by a corrupt government, which is why it has no money.

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Close but no cigar.

Yes, McDonald's is a private enterprise and the franchisee most likely has a few extra bucks laying around.

Yes, the Costa Rica government is cash strapped.

Now the flip side.

The airport is in the hands of a concessionaire not the government.

McDonald's has a basic off the shelf store design and equipment package that makes a lot of the design and permit process much quicker. When you do not have to seek competitive pricing on the restaurant equipment and furnishings you save a lot of time.

The airport is also facing a problem that is not a factor when building a new restaurant from scratch. They are building new facilities while working in a facility that is open to the public and continuing to operate it's primary function while building a new food court.The design and construction has to accommodate multiple concepts with differing needs rather then a single concept with an out of the box equipment package. It is always more difficult to continue to operate while rebuilding then to build new.

I'm sure there are other issues that someone in the construction field can provide.

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Constrution work at any airport goes at a snails pace, and the smaller ones can make it slower.

They never close if you get four good hours in in the wee hours of the morn you are lucky

Everybody and everything on the job is checked an rechecked.... getting materials and equipment on site has some logistics to it,, goes on and on

You are dealing with a place that has may levels of security....Puplic, Staff, and Air side

I did a tile job in a bagage claim area once, the money was good but never again

Building a Micky Ds is childs play

Perhaps they used Chinese to build it instead of Ticos.

hahahahahah

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It took them almost three years to finish the 3ft by 4ft section on broken pavers on the sidewalk on the corner near SL. Someone pulled up the broken ones and put them in a pile. I swear that pile of broken pavers sat there for almost three years. When i went in July I commented to San Te "holy shit they finally fixed that".

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How about that sidewalk outside the SL they were breaking it up with small sledges and after that two week trip, I came back a few months (Guessing) and they had it dug up and were putting up forms.

I have done the same in the states in one day with one helper.

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