Originally Posted by jpfromla View Post

The Rio right now is like a former hot girlfriend that you know now has a venereal disease. In this case, the disease was CET. However, a steady dose of penicillin and a condom can go a long way. So can the Rio. First bring back the best looking cocktail waitresses like they had in 1999. Bring back a well price good buffet that’s gonna be a loss leader but it’ll get people in the door. Upgrade your comped booze selections. Upgrade the masquerade in the sky show maybe with an intense light laser show to brighten that end of the casino. Free parking and no resort fee that there will go miles in terms of advertisement. Make use of that parking lot by providing a shuttle service to the allegiant stadium during any event. Park for free five dollars for the shuttle and then give everybody a free drink or some free play when they get off the shuttle at the end of the night. That way you keep them on the property. Yes some of these ideas are lost leaders but if you could get them in to play, people will dump $300-$500 in a few minutes and not realize it.
A couple things. If they bring back the best looking cocktail waitresses from 1999, won't they be like 60 years old now? Who wants to see that? Kidding. I know what you meant.

" Bring back a well price good buffet that’s gonna be a loss leader but it’ll get people in the door". I personally found this comment interesting. During Covid when everyone shut down their buffets, casinos seemed to have forgotten what the purpose of the buffets were. They were NEVER about making money (except maybe the highest priced strip buffets). Most buffets, including all the smaller ones that I loved so much at Boyd and station properties, were about keeping players on property so after the ate, they would gamble for another 3 hours. Was NEVER about making money.

It is another one of those things that when pencil pushers replaced real casino people, they lost sight of.