Houston Crosta
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Podcast Appearances
I mean, I'm not I'm not trying to compete on our losses here.
But typically, you know, if you go in and gamble, you could lose a few hundred dollars a lot faster than you can eat a few hundred dollars.
That's a good point.
When you break it like that, you know, I think the revenues are probably changing a lot.
Right.
And you can see it in the casinos.
Right.
My first business here in 2015 was car rental.
And we used to work hand in hand with the casinos.
They would love to send us people.
We would rent them, you know, Ferraris and Lamborghinis.
And it was all great relationship.
Post pandemic, the casinos wouldn't even take our phone calls.
They were just, nope, no one's leaving.
Everybody stays in here.
They started buying up all of the little independent experiences, all the little stores that were gift shops.
They bought them all.
They went full blown corporate everything and did everything in their power to keep the people traveling to Las Vegas inside the building.
to maximize the revenue, right?
They laid off, you know, 30% of their support staff.