As this season of earnings calls for major casino firms rolls along, two words aren’t on the lips of corporate executives and analysts quite as much as earlier this year: supply chain.
That doesn’t mean all is back to normal. Gaming industry operators and equipment manufacturers continue to run into a range of hitches and glitches related to obtaining everything from computer parts for slot machines and bed sheets made overseas to American-made ketchup and beef.
But it’s just not as acute, and operators have grown accustomed to and adept at figuring out work-arounds.
