When Viejas reopened in May, it was offering all-you-can-eat service in its 550-seat buffet on Fridays-Sundays only. (Pam Kragen / The San Diego Union-Tribune) The exceptions, at least so far, are casinos in Jamul, Alpine and Valley Center, that are offering an all-you-can-eat menu in their reduced-capacity buffet dining rooms, but with seated table service. Most of the region’s tribal-run casinos have reopened for business in the past two weeks, but virtually all of their buffets remain closed. Some will never return, like San Diego’s 42-year-old Souplantation restaurant chain, which announced the permanent closure of its 97 restaurants in May. Roadside billboards from El Cajon to Rainbow regularly promoted endless portions of lobster tails, crab legs and prime rib at absurdly low prices.īut because buffets have been linked worldwide to coronavirus transmissions, all self-service restaurants have been closed nationwide since pandemic shutdowns began in mid-March. The toke rate is great for the area, so I also made good money there considering I did not have a degree at the time and it wasn't outdoors or manual labor.As competition for visitor dollars has heated up between local casinos in recent years, one of the most-popular ways the Indian-run gaming venues have built customer loyalty is their all-you-can-eat buffets. It made it to where an outside life was very difficult to have.

Many of the people that had dealt there for a long time (like myself) left, as the schedule was already difficult in a 24/7/365 operation before the changes. That got very old after about a year (going in at 8am one day, 12pm the next day, 2pm the next day, 10am the next day). When we opened back up after the lock downs, they essentially made table games dealers come in at a different time everyday.

I would probably still be there if it wasn't for the changes that happened after COVID. Also had decent insurance options and a very good 401k plan with profit sharing. I genuinely liked 99% of the people I worked with. Overall, I felt like they treated their employees well (at least before COVID).

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