'So not only are they not working, but they're semi-homeless,' McDevitt says. And, to add to that cascade, the casinos are heading into their slow holiday season, likely to prolong recovery even more.įurther, while these casinos didn't sustain much damage, McDevitt explains that a lot of homes in Atlantic City are basement apartments - meaning a lot of people who work in casinos likely had their homes flooded with four or five feet of water. Union leader Bob McDevitt, president of UNITE HERE Local 54, tells Eater that he expects a long-term and very slow recovery from Hurricane Sandy, describing what he calls ' a cascading effect of a bad situation.' Essentially, casino employees have been out of work for verging on two weeks - first with the mandatory shutter and now, he says, most casinos still have only reopened about 25 to 50 percent of their food and beverage operations. How Hurricane Sandy is Affecting Casino Employees Here's a look at the situation for restaurateurs and food service employees in Atlantic City. According to Reuters, a Moody's report today says that revenues in Atlantic City 'will be down by 25 percent in both the fourth quarter and the first quarter, and earnings will be down by up to 50 percent.'Īnd while the casinos are no longer losing the reported nearly $5 million a day combined, it's still devastation for the casinos' many, many hospitality workers. It was not so much physical destruction - though there was that, too - but also the economic pain inflicted by the five-day mandatory shuttering of the casinos and their many restaurants. News out of Atlantic City, New Jersey, last week was pretty bleak with the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy.

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