Quote Originally Posted by EastsideAl View Post
The casino business is struggling pretty much everywhere these days. Revenues are declining and many casinos are falling short of even their reduced profit targets while an increasing number are in trouble or closing up entirely. I was just reading an article a few days ago about the struggles of once-growing casinos in upstate New York, some of which are giving up the business entirely. Atlantic City has mostly crashed and burned, and casinos in other large cities like Baltimore are in trouble.

The casino business has become an increasingly downscale one, with a poorer and mostly aging clientele and an even greater dependence on a small core of addicted gamblers for their profit margins. The days of upscale travel to casino areas and glitzy amenities are mostly over, and younger people are mostly uninterested in their attraction and in gambling away what little money they have. In a declining revenue scenario one of the first things that's going to slip is staffing for regular cleaning and maintenance.
We were in downtown Buffalo last week with a couple of hours to kill before a Mudhens game. There's a small casino nearby so we went in for an hour. I didn't even know Buffalo had a casino but I guess every city does now. It was very empty on a Wed. afternoon and almost all of the slots were penny ones.