INNOVATION
With a keen focus on innovation, PEI prides itself on offering groundbreaking and exciting concepts to fulfill travelers’ needs and unmet desires in the airport retail and food & beverage space.
PEI’s creative journey is rich: from opening the world’s first airport winery to creating the first chef-driven airport restaurants at DFW and Love Field airports as well as one of the first concessionaires to offer healthy-food options and craft cocktails to the traveling public.
HISTORY
For over 35 years, Puente Enterprises Inc. has carved a niche in the highly competitive airport concessions industry as a woman and minority-owned company.
Founder Gina Puente credits her success to PEI’s diversity, not only in brand and category selections but through inclusive hiring of the best people from the DFW area.
"Recognized for its customer service and innovation, PEI successfully competes with multi-international companies on a day-to-day basis, establishing its first-to-market strategy."
TODAY
Puente’s team is blazing trails in the future of airport retail with checkout-free, frictionless shopping at the Fort Worth Magazine Travel Store. Driven by an AI-powered checkout-free platform that combines computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to accurately identify shoppers’ purchases.
This location offers travel essentials, souvenirs, pre-packaged food and snacks in a cashier-free environment for customer convenience. No lines! No checkout! No scanning! Just quick, shop & go!
Opened in July 2022, Fort Worth Travel Store is the highest-volume frictionless location at DFW Airport. It successfully combines leading-edge technology, unique product offerings, and team engagement with its customers. In addition, analytics elevates its operations by identifying customer buying patterns, benchmarking, and trend analysis.
Concepts We’ve Created
LA BODEGA WINERY
World’s First Airport Winery
SKY CANYON
First chef-driven concept
at DFW Airport
SKY CANYON
First chef-driven concept
at Love Field Airport
URBAN TACO
First Mexico City cuisine
at DFW Airport
WALL STREET NEWS
Award-Winning Customer Service
UFOOD GRILL
First healthy concept at DFW Airport