The Employer's witnesses was restaurants service manager Gerald Beaver. There were no party exhibits. The Employer operates a hotel that includes gaming and restaurants. Each restaurant and outlet is a separate department. Based on past practice, each department is responsible for certain work.
Room service is a department.
In such cases, the food may be served by another employee, such as a butler in the suite or the cocktail waitress in the Baccarat Pit. In August 1995, in an effort to attract and retain more Asian patrons at the Baccarat Pit, the Employer decided, without prior notification to or consultation with the Union, to provide food from its gourmet Emperor's Inn restaurant in mini-buffet, usually Saturday nights, in the Baccarat Pit. Although the room servers handled this Asian Buffet for the first two times, the Employer thereafter assigned the work to employees of Emperor's Inn. The primary purpose was to provide servers conversant with the patrons, thus making the new offering more comfortable to the them in terms of language as well as cuisine. This was the first time that outlet or restaurant employees delivered food outside their site.