For travelers hungry for cashew chicken or shrimp broccoli, Wednesday will be your last shot, at least for a while, to satisfy that craving on the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport concourse.

Wok & Roll, after dishing out Chinese food near Gate 7 since shortly after the airport’s 1999 opening, is closing, a consequence of several years of conflict between airport officials and the restaurant’s owner, Iris Ren.

Ren, who is Chinese and moved to the United States in the late 1980s, blames the business breakup — which actually was cast in stone with Austin City Council action almost three years ago to hire another company — on "systematic discrimination and unfair treatment."

Airport officials, however, point to a series of missed deadlines and other problems with Wok & Roll and its owner. And they noted that Ren will continue to run SoCo Market at the airport, near the American Airlines ticket counters, under a separate lease reached this year with the airport’s concession contractor, DNC.

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"The business at SoCo is very bad, and it (cannot) even cover all the expenses for itself," Ren told the American-Statesman in an email. "I should not take it (the SoCo lease) but I was so scared about my livelihood."

Ren and her former husband took over the Wok & Roll lease from another concessionaire about a year after the airport opened, she said, and the lease had been renewed twice since. The last renewal in 2012, for five years, came with a series of conditions by the city in negotiations that dragged on for a year after the City Council approved the continued deal with Wok & Roll. That’s when things began to sour.

Under the 2012 extension, Ren, according to a Sept. 15 memo by Francisco "Kiko" Garza, a division manager with the city Aviation Department, was supposed to open an additional Wok & Roll kiosk location on the concourse’s west wing and work jointly with another company, Vino Volo, to create a wine bar near Gate 13. Despite what the city says were 42 meetings with Ren’s company and numerous delays on the kiosk and wine bar elements, the city agreed to extend the agreement to 2017.

But at the point in 2013 when the extension was finally signed, the airport additionally required Ren to make repairs to Wok & Roll’s water and wastewater plumbing, which were leaking, while agreeing that the airport would pay up to $28,345 toward that work. Ren also was required to drop the kiosk venture, which had been languishing.

By 2014, when the rapidly expanding airport bid out a much broader concession contract, officials there were ready to move on from Wok & Roll. That larger contract, which included the Wok & Roll space, went to DNC, to be effective in May 2017. Council Member Kathie Tovo, as the council was preparing to vote on the DNC agreement at its Nov. 20, 2014, meeting, said she had heard from someone associated with Wok & Roll about possible discrimination, and she asked airport director Jim Smith about it.

"The bottom line is that concessionaire (Wok & Roll) has been out of compliance with their contract probably for the last five years over numerous occasions," Smith told the council. "We’ve had a lot of difficulties with them and have had to work with them just to allow them to stay to 2017."

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Given all that, he said, the airport had no interest in continuing the Wok & Roll lease deal.

Ren and Wok & Roll have been operating on a month-to-month basis since that five-year extension expired at the end of May. Now, with DNC preparing for construction related to its takeover of the space, the city in late September gave Ren until Friday to vacate. She says that service at the restaurant will cease at 7 p.m. Wednesday, costing about 10 people their jobs, so that she can move out in time.

Ren, who sent last-minute pleas to Mayor Steve Adler and the rest of the City Council in recent days, said that "basically, I’ve been fighting for three years. … They said because Wok & Roll has been here for 18 years, they want something new. They should give me a chance to propose something new."