South Point will have to go it alone in the Strip buffet department now that The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas has shut down Wicked Spoon “temporarily.” Wicked Spoon had a good, seven-month run during the pandemic but the language used by the Cosmo was rather ominous: “Effective January 10, Wicked Spoon will temporarily cease operations. We are hopeful that business levels will improve into the new year, from which operations will continue to be reevaluated.” Whose “business levels” are we talking about? It is impossible to evaluate the “levels” of a business that is shuttered, so what we’re really talking about is the overall performance of the Cosmo itself, the Covid capital of the Las Vegas Strip. It’s possible customers didn’t cotton to the new-look Wicked Spoon, whose regimen was “mandatory reservations, reduced seating, and dishes served by staff.”
It’s also possible that the Cosmo is suffering from the downturn in Vegas business, of which the Las Vegas Strip is a particular casualty. Either way, the whole buffet concept is on life support, at least until Covid-19 is sufficiently behind us that collective amnesia takes hold … and given slow vaccine rollouts, that’s not likely to happen soon.
In the Chicago Tribune on Sunday the over/under for the Brooklyn Nets and Washington Wizards game was 242 1/2. I have never seen an NBA game with a total that high and the total still went over. The Wizards won 123-122.