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Foxwoods Resort Casino Promotes Joseph Albanese to Vice President of Food and Beverage
April 20, 2011
Seasoned F&B Executive Brings Extensive Casino Experience to Management Team
MASHANTUCKET, CT (April 20, 2011) ¬– Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprises today announced that Joseph Albanese has been promoted to Vice President of Food and Beverage.
Albanese’s responsibilities will include the development and management of all Food & Beverage budgets; management of F&B team training; monitoring of safety and health compliance; development of new F&B concepts and menus; selection of all F&B products and equipment; and providing regular and strategic counsel to the operations department regarding analyses of operating results, costs, budgets, and forecasts. He will report to Senior Vice President of Resort Operations Barry Cregan.
“Joseph Albanese has been a major asset to Foxwoods since he joined our team in 2008,” said Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprises President Scott Butera. “His in-depth understanding of the gaming and food and beverage industries will help us to provide our guests with the superior culinary experience they’ve come to expect.”
Albanese has a decade of food and beverage operations experience in the resort casino industry. He joined Foxwoods in 2008 as Director of Beverage Operations, where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of beverage operations for the property’s 30-plus dining, lounge, club, and bar venues. In 2010, Albanese was promoted to Foxwoods’ Acting Vice President of Food and Beverage.
Prior to joining Foxwoods, Albanese served as Director of Beverage Operations for Gaylord Entertainment Company in Nashville; Director of Beverage Operations for Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas; and Director of Beverage Operations for MGM Mirage in Las Vegas. He received his Sommelier training from the Court of Master Sommeliers.
“It has been a great honor to be part of the highly regarded Food and Beverage team at Foxwoods,” said Albanese. “I’m looking forward to continuing the pursuit of excellence and ensuring that our guests are treated to the exceptional customer experience for which Foxwoods is known.”
About Foxwoods and MGM Grand at Foxwoods
North America’s largest casino, Foxwoods Resort Casino® is located at the Mashantucket Pequot Indian reservation in the midst of the rolling hills of southeastern Connecticut, easily accessible from Boston, New York, Hartford, and Providence. Owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, Foxwoods has something for everyone as the East Coast’s premier entertainment destination. Four award-winning hotels offer accommodations to suit every budget, along with luxury butler-serviced villas, extensive retail offerings, and more than 30 dining establishments featuring everything from world-class gourmet cuisine to casual fare. Six casinos offer non-stop gaming excitement with more than 6,500 slots and 350 table games; 97 poker tables in the only WPT World Poker Room™ on the East Coast; a High Stakes Bingo hall; and Ultimate Race Book. The renowned Norwich Spa at Foxwoods and the tranquil oasis of G-Spa provide the perfect escape to recharge the mind, body, and soul. Meetings and convention goers will find more than 115,000 square feet of meeting space, including the largest column-free ballroom in the northeast, MGM’s 50,000 square foot Premiere Ballroom. Two acoustically-perfected theaters offer weekly entertainment for all ages. The original state-of-the-art Fox Theater, seating 1,400, was opened in 1993 by the legendary Frank Sinatra. The majestic 4,000-seat MGM Grand Theater hosts an impressive variety of weekly headline entertainment. Conveniently located adjacent to Foxwoods is Lake of Isles™, featuring two 18-hole championship golf courses designed by Rees Jones and a state-of-the-art Golf Academy. Foxwoods supports responsible gaming, and plays a leadership role in the Connecticut Council of Problem Gambling, of which it was a founding entity. For more information, call 800-FOXWOODS or visit www.foxwoods.com.
About the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
The Mashantucket Pequots are a native Algonquin people in southeastern Connecticut who endured centuries of conflict, survival, and continuity on and around one of America’s oldest Indian reservations, established in 1666. As the first native people within the borders of the continental United States to suffer attempted genocidal massacre by Puritan Colonists in 1637, the Pequots and their repatriation is an unprecedented story of restoration exhibited in detail at the Tribe’s world-class Museum and Research Center (www.pequotmuseum.org). Today, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation owns the largest resort casino in North America, Foxwoods Resort Casino (www.foxwoods.com), along with several other economic ventures, including the Lake of Isles Golf Course (www.lakeofisles.com); a joint-venture partnership establishing the MGM Grand at Foxwoods; and Foxwoods Development Company, dedicated to world-class resort development throughout the United States and Caribbean. All together, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation remains one of the State of Connecticut’s highest tax payers and largest employers, and has contributed more than $3 billion to the state of Connecticut in accordance with the Tribe’s gaming-revenue-sharing agreement, established in 1993. Likewise, the Tribe provides significant financial contributions to state and local nonprofit organizations that support neighboring communities.
