"It’s nice to have better food so you aren’t just eating just to eat."

The Cask & Larder restaurant was a revelation to Orlando International Airport when it opened in October 2016.

The restaurant offers dishes such as shrimp and grits, Nashville fried chicken and other Southern classics. It helped show airport officials that people don’t just want food when they travel — they want good food and are willing to pay for it.

The airport showed a 24 percent increase in food sales after Cask & Larder opened, also attributable to new food options such as Chipotle, far outpacing the 7 percent increase in passenger traffic.

Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.