Philadelphia’s SugarHouse Casino has thrown a lifeline to ___ employees of a local Palm’s restaurant slated to lose their jobs today as a result of the Bellevue, Pennsylvania restaurant’s yearlong closing for renovations.
SugarHouse General Manager Wendy Hamilton visited the restaurant with her human resources staff to make the offer of jobs in the seven new bars and restaurants that will be part of the casino’s $164 million expansion, which will see a soft opening next month and a grand opening April 4.
The SugarHouse expansion will require 500 new employees, 200 of them in the food and beverage department. The casino has only hired 100 of them, with training for the new restaurants slated to begin this week.
“It’s a win, win, win,” Hamilton told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “This is practically seamless, and basically took this huge problem off the Palm’s plate. And this will have plugged a hole in the problem SugarHouse has. They know these people, and they provide excellent service. It’s like a shortcut for SugarHouse. Think of the training alone they aren’t going to have to do. These people already know how to deal with real high rollers, people who are influential.”
