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aggregate seating capacity of the eating facilities, exclusive of
the casino restaurants, near CHC and Fremont is in both cases
more than 650 diners. The record does not disclose the seating
capacity of the casino restaurants near CHC, Fremont, Stardust,
or Sam's Town. CHC and Fremont have 11 competitor casinos
situated nearby, and these competitors house numerous restaurants
offering an assortment of meals including fast food, ethnic food,
buffet food, sandwiches, and pizza. The same assortment of
restaurants is present in the 11 competitor casinos located near
Stardust. Sam's Town has two competitor casinos nearby, one of
which has a pasta buffet, a cafeteria, and a delicatessen.
Most of the major casinos in Las Vegas provide meals to
their employees at no charge in private eating facilities located
on the casinos' premises. In order to attract and keep
employees, petitioners offer compensation and benefits packages
to their employees that are highly competitive with those of
other similar employers. Included in these packages is the
benefit of a meal or meals during, and/or in some cases before or
after, an employee's shift. Petitioners opted before the subject
years to provide meals to all of their employees after it was
decided, by the management of the affiliated group's parent, that
petitioners would generally require their employees to stay on
the premises throughout their shifts and that it was unreasonable
to require full-time employees to stay on the premises for an
8-hour shift without offering them meals. Management believed
that it was essential to petitioners' operations that 75 to 80
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