About 1,400 employees were called back to work for the reopening, and Wind Creek hoped to recall more as capacity and business increased.
We’re prepared to make sacrifices, but we also want to come out of it with enough of our people intact and ready to move forward.”Īfter more than 100 days, Wind Creek reopened with fewer slot machines, a reservation system and enhanced cleaning efforts. Collectively, we all want to get out of this thing. “At some level, business needs to be able to operate so we can continue keeping our people employed and they can earn a paycheck. Where you can take steps to mitigate and to slow this thing down, it needs to be done and it needs to be enforced. “We would respectfully suggest that all businesses can’t be treated the same. “We just want everybody to know that the steps that can be taken, we’ve been taking them and we’re enforcing them,” Dorris told The Morning Call. What he wanted to stress, however, is that since Wind Creek Bethlehem reopened in late June, the casino has been mandating masks, maintaining social distance among guests and operating at even less than the allowed 50% capacity.
As his employees scrambled Friday afternoon to temporarily shut down the massive Bethlehem casino at midnight, Wind Creek Hospitality President and CEO Jay Dorris said the company was disappointed but understood the need to curtail the surge of coronavirus cases with a statewide order.
