According to an article we came across by the Egg Nutrition Center, the peak of U.S. egg consumption was in 1945, with a per capita intake of 405 eggs per person per year. That equates to 7.8 eggs per week or 1.1 eggs per day. Today's intake is roughly 244 eggs per person per year or 4.7 eggs per week, 0.7 eggs per day.
Here's what we learned from all the very helpful food buyers we spoke with.
The Hard Rock, which has 1,500 guest rooms and six restaurants, goes through nearly 3,000 dozen eggs a month, on average, which equates to 36,000 individual eggs per month, or roughly 1,200 per day.
Downtown's Golden Gate serves 15 cases of eggs per week. It's 30 dozen eggs to a case, so that's about 771 eggs per day.
Hooters fries, whisks, boils, and scrambles 80 dozen -- 960 -- eggs a day.
Over at the Gold Coast it's around 1,800 dozen per week, a whopping 3,086 per day or so, on average.
With 4,000 rooms, Caesars Palace serves approximately 93,000 eggs per month. So, at about 3,067 per day, that's actually less than the 711-roomed Gold Coast, interestingly enough.
Bally's came up with a figure of just over 5,000 eggs a day. That's a lot of omelets.
With a turnover of approximately 2,000-2,200 dozen per week, South Point's daily egg consumption works out to around 3,600.
Averaging out the seven hotels we got responses from (17,684 total, or 2,527 per day) and multiplying times 100 major/minor casinos, that's in the neighborhood of 253,000 eggs served in Las Vegas casinos every day.