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Hard Rock spends $100M to raise pay for non-tipped US staff
Read full article: Hard Rock spends $100M to raise pay for non-tipped US staffHard Rock International, , said Monday it is spending over $100 million to give significant raises to 10,000 non-tipped workers, most of them in the U.S. The global gambling, entertainment and hospitality company is giving the employees an immediate increase to a minimum starting salary of $18 to $21 an hour.
World's first guitar-shaped hotel opens with smash
Read full article: World's first guitar-shaped hotel opens with smashSeminole Hard Rock Hotel Casino Hollywood via CNN(CNN) - A $1.5 billion guitar-shaped Hard Rock property in Hollywood, Florida, opened to much fanfare last week. The guitar-shaped Hard Rock property -- the first of its kind -- is part of a larger project, one estimated at $2.2 billion, expanding the two Florida Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos. Both the Hollywood and Tampa locations of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino are successful Seminole-run resort casinos and contain all the glitzy, overstated fixings of a traditional Hard Rock property. Opening rosterGuitar smashing is exactly what it sounds like and was one of the events highlighted at the hotel's opening. Not your average hotelMonths earlier, in an opening announcement revealing some of what visitors could expect from the guitar hotel.