Gulf Coast Casinos Still Struggling to Purchase Crab Legs at Reasonable Costs
Gulf Coast casinos in Mississippi, famed for their all-you-can-eat buffets featuring world-beater and snow crabby person legs, remain struggling to source such items.
Citing drudge shortages, conveyance troubles, heights demand, and rising prices, casinos inwards Biloxi, Gulfport, D’Iberville, and Bay St. Joe Louis experience for the most part through with(p) off with crabmeat legs on their cassino buffets.
Our knock about is not serving any king and snow crab,” Kristian Wade, executive director chef at Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi, told SeafoodSource, a seafood industry tidings site. “We are having disoblige getting everything from calamari to West Coast oysters,”
“Same with scallops and mussels. We are not capable to acquire a great deal of anything correct now,” Virginia Wade added.
Seafood prices feature skyrocketed as a resultant of the pandemic, and there’s seemingly no more timetable as to when more sane costs power return.
“The seafood industry is experiencing a backlog at US ports, as advantageously as navigating a major proletariat shortage, transfer toll hikes, and increased costs of seafood, packaging, and other supplies that are complicating their operations,” Melaina Lewis, managing director of communications of the National Fisheries Institute, told NBC’s TODAY. “This all contributes to higher prices and serious delays inwards bringing seafood from decoy to plate.”
Passing Costs to Customers
There are 12 Gulf Coast casinos. But only if trine are presently offering AYCE crab legs — Treasure Bay Casino and Hotel, Silver Slipper Casino, and Hollywood Casino Gulf Coast.
The shortage of crab legs is zero new. Casino.org reported inward April that buffets were for the most part disengage of AYCE crabs.
At that time, Treasure Bay was ace of the casinos that continued to bid the much-sought-after sideboard staple at a cost of $31.99. Fast-forward to a lesser extent than IV months, and that toll has jumped to $42.99.
The Silver Slipper was another Gulf Coast cassino that has continued to offer up AYCE crabmeat legs. But the likes of Treasure Bay, its batter damage with crabmeat legs has surged from $34.98 inward April, to $49.95 today ($44.95 Mon through Thursday).
Hollywood’s interminable crabby person legs counter runs $44.95, but is only when available Friday through and through Sunday.
Golden Nugget gave sideboard diners in Apr the choice to add together on 1.5 pounds of crab legs for $14.99 to their $19.99 general buffet dinner party price. But the Nugget no longer has the crabby person legs option.
Gaming Rebound
Despite not offering the bounty of crabmeat legs Gulf Coast casinos are known for, stage business is strong on the gaming floors.
January through June, Mississippi’s casinos are on step to amend their 2019 gross gaming revenue (GGR). That year, the state’s 26 commercial-grade casinos collectively won $2.2 1000000000 from gamblers. Through sise months inwards 2021, the properties have reported GGR of $1.369 billion.
At the stream rate, Mississippi’s gaming industry is on caterpillar tread to win around $2.74 billion this year.