Rivers Casino Schenectady appoints new general manager
Rivers Casino Schenectady has appointed Rick Richards as general manager.
US.- Rivers Casino Schenectady has appointed Rick Richards as general manager to replace Justin Moore, who has moved to the same role in Philadelphia.
Richards joins Rivers Casino after working as vice-president and general manager at Station Casinos, overseeing a portfolio of properties in Nevada.
He told the Daily Gazette: “I’ve done everything in the casino business from cleaning rooms to slot machines and table games to restaurants and serving and cooking.
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Rivers Casino reopened in early September after a six-month shutdown. Some of its last state-mandated and self-imposed Covid-19 countermeasures have come to an end this month.
Richards analysed the post-pandemic scenario and how he expects to lead the return to normalcy at the casino. He said: “We want to make sure we’re still clean, safe, friendly. Some of the [sanitary measures] we created during the reopening we’re going to keep. But we’ll bring things back as the volumes increase.”
He concluded: “I think during COVID, a lot of casinos, because of the closures, because of the restrictions, probably learned to operate a little differently. It’s unprecedented times we went through. We really don’t know what the normal is going to be. For us it’s step by step.”
