{"id":5789,"date":"2011-02-16T11:22:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2011-02-16T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T19:22:41","slug":"quote-of-the-day-284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-284\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3744\" title=\"Sheldon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sheldon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sheldon.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sheldon-150x99.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>&#8220;Vegas is  a different market.\u00a0You can get a room in the finest hotels on the  Strip for <strong>Holiday Inn Express<\/strong> prices. That&#8217;s why <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> is  stomping his feet. The restaurants are not making their lease payments  either. The convention traffic just isn&#8217;t supporting the number of fine  dining and entertainment options in that town and neither are the  players. If you can&#8217;t give it away, then what? <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Top  brands like the <strong>Venetian<\/strong> are at great risk of devaluing their brands  with discounted and comped rooms. Likewise, <strong>Opus One<\/strong> would never sell a  bottle of its wine for $10.99 at <strong>Costco<\/strong>. However, most of us aren&#8217;t Opus  One.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Barker Enterprises<\/strong> President <strong>Nicole Barker<\/strong> on <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/view.exacttarget.com\/?j=fe5e15757061077b7017&amp;m=ff031570776603&amp;ls=fdee177975670c7c7c10\" target=\"_blank\">recent decimation of comps<\/a> at its low-yield <strong>Venelazzo<\/strong> megaplex<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vegas is a different market.\u00a0You can get a room in the finest hotels on the Strip for Holiday Inn Express prices. That&#8217;s why Sheldon Adelson is stomping his feet. The restaurants are not making their lease payments either. The convention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-284\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,18,14,4,53,12,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5790,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions\/5790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}