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Sugar Factory Tampa will be located at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino at 5223 Orient Road, Tampa, FL 33610. Sugar Factory American Brasserie will be open weekdays from 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. and weekends from 11a.m. – 1a.m. Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served daily and brunch will be available on Saturdays and Sundays. Sugar Factory Tampa will be located on the Mezzanine level of the casino, overlooking the grand entrance, within the newly opened hotel and casino. The 120-seat full-service restaurant will feature the brand’s signature confectionary, which boasts a 4,000-square-foot, floor-to-ceiling candy wall with over 500 types of candy, including a selection of bulk and novelty candy like the world-famous Couture Pops. Complementing the candy, the café will also offer coffees, hot chocolate, frozen hot chocolate, homemade specialty rainbow doughnuts and pastries in addition to homemade gelato and ice cream.
Sugar Factory, “The Most Instagrammed Restaurant in the United States” by Food & Wine Magazine, offers a sweet escape with locations throughout the United States, including the newest restaurant locations in Midtown Atlanta, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi, Theatre Box in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City, the Fashion Show Mall on the Las Vegas Strip, in New York City on Broadway, in Bellevue near Seattle and in Pentagon City, Washington D.C. Other locations include a goblet bar and retail location at the Miracle Mile Shops inside Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, retail stores at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Union Square in Washington, D.C. and at McCarran International Airport at the D Gates. Sugar Factory American Brasserie, complete with retail and the brand’s popular restaurant, can be found globally in New York City, Chicago, Pentagon City, Connecticut at Foxwoods Resort Casino, Orlando and South Beach Miami. The brand will expand into more new domestic markets this year Mall of America in Minnesota, Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston. The brand reaches internationally with a retail store overseas in Bahrain and restaurants in Manila, Philippines, Festival City Mall and CityWalk in Dubai and it’s newest Dubai location in the Emaar Mall, as well as the most recently opened location at The Mall World Trade Center in Abu Dhabi.
Visited the Seminole Hard Rock Casino for dinner. Of all the dining choices of the hotel, $30 for a dinner buffet was a deal. I would have clearly spent at least double at any of the other restaurants. Note that I stayed away from carbs: Raw Bar: liked the oysters and crawfish. Shrimp was soggy. Mussels looked dry. Great New England clam chowder. C/O SEMINOLE HARD ROCK TAMPA. As if you needed to spend any more money at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, the joint recently welcomed four new food concepts: Italian American restaurant.
Rise Kitchen & Deli. Rise Kitchen & Deli is Seminole Hard Rock Tampa’s casual and charming eatery for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a quick snack, seven days a week. The diverse menu features classic and contemporary comfort food favorites.
About Sugar Factory:
Hours of Operation:
Monday – Thursday 11 am – 1 am
Friday 11 am – 2 am
Saturday 10 am – 2 am
Sunday 10 am – 1 am
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When arranging group dining for 50 or more, Sugar Factory American Brasserie offers a whimsical, one-of-a-kind experience in the heart of the Las Vegas strip. You can reach us at [email protected]
The iconic 36-story guitar-shaped tower has continued to glow every night during the coronavirus crisis, but the slot machines have been dark and silent inside the newly-renovated Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood.
Among the hardest-hit tourism industries during the pandemic is the gaming industry, which affected 246 Native American tribes with more than 500 gaming facilities in 29 states, including the Seminole and Miccosukee hotels and casinos in South Florida.
About 1,500 gamers turned up Sunday for the reopening of Miami’s Miccosukee Resort and Gaming under strict health guidelines. Those included temperature checks for all guests and employees, mandatory masks, every third slot machine on with two between off to ensure social distance, and disinfectant wipe stations throughout the facility.
“We were able to open our doors early by meeting what we call all the steps of safety for all of us. And yet we have a long way to go. We’re not out of it,” Billy Cypress, chairman of the tribe, said Wednesday at a press conference outside of Miccosukee Resort & Gaming, 500 SW 177th Ave.
Some areas remain closed: hotel, valet services, Bingo, poker, Empeeke Aaweeke International Buffet, Bravo Bravissimo, Café Hammock, Cypress Lounge, Martini Bar, Pa-Hay Okee Salon Spa, Club Egret and the teen arcade.
The scenario will be much the same Thursday night, when Seminole Hard Rock Tampa reopens. “Safe and Sound” rules there include temperature checks, mandatory masks, alternating slot machines, and Plexiglass barriers dividing players and dealers at poker and table games.
There are no confirmed reopening dates for any of the Seminole Tribe’s three Broward casino complexes – Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Seminole Casino Coconut Creek and Seminole Classic Casino Hollywood. The Seminole-owned Billie Swamp Safari and Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum also remain closed.
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The Magic City Casino remains closed, but Jai Alai there resumed on May 1 with no fans. Games are streamed online.
Jim Allen, the CEO of Seminole Gaming and Hard Rock International, told Fox Business last week that he expected their Florida casinos to open “end of May or early June”.
The closures of tribal casinos alone took a estimated $4.4 billion bite out of casino revenues and left 296,000 people out of work. That means $997 million in lost wages, and $721 million in lost taxes and revenue sharing received by federal, state, and local governments, according to Alan Meister, the CEO and Prime Economist at California-based Meister Economic Consulting, which analyzes the gaming industry and Indian gaming.
Meanwhile, the Seminole Tribe’s long-running gaming compact dispute with the State of Florida remains in limbo until the legislature is back in session. In May 2019, the Seminole Tribe discontinued sharing revenue generated by its six casinos, arguing the state was in violation of the deal that gave the state at least $1 billion over five years. A subsequent, 2015 deal by then-Gov. Rick Scott (R) would have brought the state $3 billion over a seven-year period, but no arrangement has been finalized.
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“These closures continue to cause significant detriment to Native American tribes, many of which rely heavily on gaming related revenue to pay for tribal government operations infrastructure, and social and economic programs and services for a Native American population that is already substantially disadvantaged,” said Meister.
South Florida is feeling its share of the pain. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood employs more than 4,000 people, most of whom were furloughed when the complex closed March 20. Seminole Gaming extended employee healthcare benefits, continued salary payments for two weeks and twice distributed $100 grocery gift cards to workers who make less than $50,000 a year, according to Gary Bitner, whose public relations firm represents the Seminole Tribe of Florida and its Florida casinos.
Between the Seminole Gaming entities and the Hard Rock holdings, the enterprise in a normal year brings in about $5 billion in annual revenue, according to Allen. The two biggest properties in Florida — Hollywood and Tampa — are among the five most profitable casinos in the country.
The company’s $2.2 billion expansions of the Tampa and Hollywood properties opened in late-2019 and significantly bumped revenue and growth during the quarters ending Dec. 31, 2019 and March 31, 2020. Those results should help Seminole Gaming and Hard Rock International withstand the crisis in the long run, said an April 13 report by Fitch Ratings, one of the nation’s top credit ratings agencies.
The two enterprises saw their Fitch Ratings dropped from “Stable” to “Negative” in mid-April due to the pandemic. “Seminole’s Outlook revision to Negative reflects the tribe’s exposure to the adverse impact to the gaming industry from the coronavirus pandemic and, to a lesser extent, the broader restaurant and leisure industries,” said the Fitch report. “All of the tribe’s casinos are currently closed with uncertain timelines for opening” but “SHRE (Seminole Hard Rock Enterprises) also has sufficient cash on hand to weather the near-term cash burn without the need for additional liquidity,” the firm wrote.
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“Fitch views STOF (Seminole Tribe of Florida’s) expansion in Tampa and Hollywood favorably, given the strength in the underlying operating environment and benefits to the company’s competitive positioning.”
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As of May 18, 54 tribal casinos had re-opened in 14 states — Idaho, Oklahoma, Washington, Texas, Arizona, California, North Dakota, Michigan, Florida, Minnesota, Montana, New York, North Carolina and Oregon.
Said Meister, “It’s a two-edged sword because the casinos want to open as soon as possible to start generating revenue, but you want to do it safely and make your customers feel comfortable and that they’re going to want to come back out. It’s going to take time. There definitely is some pent-up demand. We’ve seen lines at some facilities when they re-opened. But some people won’t want to go out yet.”
He said the Seminole tribe is “a fairly large gaming tribe, very well known for acquiring the Hard Rock brand and being able to operate not just gaming, but non-gaming businesses around the world that Hard Rock has, so they’re pretty experienced in operating gaming and hospitality.”
Allen feels confident the Seminole gaming facilities have the space and capacity to create a safe environment, and he expects there will be pent-up demand. Seminole Hard Rock Tampa is the first of six Seminole Gaming casinos to reopen in Florida.
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“We’re anticipating very large crowds,” Allen said. “We saw some openings last week in other parts of the United States, and frankly, volumes are tremendous. We will be prepared for that. The max capacity we will allocate is 50 percent as we navigate safety for our guests and employees.
“But we’re more concerned about third quarter, fourth quarter, first quarter of next year because I think after the initial pent-up demand is behind us, then the question is, `What’s the frequency and available discretionary income to come to an entertainment facility.”
Allen added that Hard Rock and Seminole Gaming are fully committed to providing a safe environment for their staff and guests: “We are making sure our resorts are safe and sound so our guests and team members have peace of mind when they return.”
While the Seminole gaming facilities were hemorrhaging money, the Tribe worked hard to control the virus within its community.
There were just three confirmed cases out of more than 4,300 members of the Tribe, and all three already recovered, according to Bitner. Across Indian Country, more than 5,200 cases were confirmed, according to the New York Times, and the Navajo Nation this week surpassed New York and New Jersey for the highest per-capita coronavirus infection rate in the U.S. The Navajo population is 173,667 and they have 4,002 cases.
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