Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JAN 2020年1月 亞博匯 68 IN FOCUS disposed from the Fortuna Buffet at the changeover from breakfast to lunch at 11am and from lunch to dinner at 3pm. “At 10:59, the food was fine, so at 11 you send it to Meet & Eat,” he explains, pointing to Wynn Palace’s employee cafeteria. MILLION A MONTH Plastic water bottles represent another major sustainability challenge. Wynn alone reportedly uses one million bottles a month. Most single use water bottle consumption originates on the casino floor, but rooms, functions and restaurants also generate significant numbers. Last June, Wynn Palace began a trial of the Nordaq water system in its SW Steakhouse. Founded in Sweden, Nordaq supplies equipment for converting tap water into a product comparable to bottled water. Wynn is the first Macau gaming concessionaire to utilize the system, though Nordaq says it has other local hotel clients. The manual system trialed at the restaurant includes a filtration unit that removes impurities from tap water with a carbonation option to produce sparkling water, and a capping system – black striped caps for still and blue striped for sparkling. The water fills one liter glass bottles that SW Steakhouse sells for MOP$50 (US$6.25), a discount to the price of bottled water alternatives San Pellegrino and Acqua Panna in glass bottles and Fiji Water in plastic bottles. “One customer in five months has said, ‘I prefer Pellegrino,’” SW Steakhouse General Manager William Dunbar reports. “Just one customer.” Compared with imported choices, there’s “no carbon footprint, no plastic and the tops are recycled,” he adds. Nordaq’s process leaves water slightly alkaline, like leading mineral water brands. Many experts believe alkaline water is healthier than neutral or slightly acidic water, though the science is still unsettled. Sparkling Nordaq remains bubbly for three days, so SW staff prepare a few dozen bottles of each Nordaq Melco Resorts & Entertainment recently installed over 18,000 solar panels on the rooftops of its Macau IRs. 新濠博亞娛樂最近在其澳門綜合度假村的樓頂上安裝了超過18000個太陽能電池板。