We have to figure out how we prepare the workforce for that change. The Culinary’s done a lot to bring a great standard of living to Las Vegas, and it’s like a big community, too. They live here, they buy houses here, and their kids go to schools here. We use the doctors here and everything else — it’s a big package. The wider community benefits because of these jobs. We have to figure out how the jobs stay here.
People sometimes forget that Culinary workers on the Strip are part of a whole ecosystem that’s plugged into the middle class of the entire city.