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Article: BETTING THE ODDS.(New Orleans negotiates with casino)(Brief Article)
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- Restaurants & Institutions
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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If you don't like the odds, change the rules of the game.
That is what the Louisiana Restaurant Association did. Casinos elsewhere--Las Vegas and Atlantic City, N.J.--ply gambling patrons with cheap or free food. The same with rooms. Gamblers can eat and drink without leaving their chair, head upstairs for a brief nap to recharge the batteries, then return to the blackjack table. Such convenience caused the restaurant trade in New Orleans which is nothing if not a restaurant town--to raise its collective eyebrows when Harrah's Entertainment Inc. proposed to bring a casino to the Big Easy. Anticipating all the high rollers coming to town, it wanted to be assured a ...