This was many years ago: I have also experienced the flip side of this, where a casino I had never played at but where I knew the Director from when was at another casino invited me in, gave us the largest suite the hotel had - and it was a massive penthouse thousands of square feet in size - set up a private table for me in the casino, with a dealer on stand by for two days, and - I never played.
There were no food charges actually, we dined off property, but the room comp was maintained. 0 bill on check out.
I actually knew up front I was not going to play. I didn't like that Director and wanted to mess with.
I felt a little bad for the dealers who had to stand there for two days with no action, but you actually see this all the time in casinos, reserved tables with idle dealers. These days, if I know I won't be back for a couple days, which I typically do not play every day (although sometimes - I do for stretches), I tell the pit boss to take down the reserved table until I let them know.