“That will be an important change we need to bring to the Tropicana,” Wilmott said. Penn National wants to evaluate what type of food outlets make sense for the resort and its customer base. Wilmott said restaurant upgrades will be coming in 2016. “We see a lot of potential with the Tropicana and improving the restaurants will be one of out initial efforts,” Wilmott said during an interview at the Global Gaming Expo. Wilmott said the Tropicana’s food and beverage revenue is dwarfed by the restaurant revenue produced at the company’s M Resort in Henderson, which has less than one-quarter of the hotel capacity as the Tropicana. The resort’s four restaurants, however, are not meeting the company’s expectations. The Tropicana’s 1,500 hotel rooms and suites “are in excellent shape and high quality,” Wilmott said. Penn National Gaming CEO Tim Wilmott said the regional gaming company is committed to improving the Strip resort by bringing in nongaming amenities so that customers won’t have to walk across Tropicana Boulevard and the Strip to the MGM Grand, Excalibur or New York-New York for a good meal. The comment about the Tropicana Las Vegas wasn’t meant to be derogatory. It was a bit surprising to hear the chief executive of a major casino operator describe the Strip resort his company recently bought for $360 million as a “dormitory.” Exterior, aerial view of the Tropicana hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Friday, June 15, 2012.
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