Hard Rock’s new Strip location to hire 500 workers

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 | 11:07 a.m.

Hard Rock Cafe

There’s a bit of good news for Nevada’s unemployed coming later this week.

The Strip’s new Hard Rock Café, set to open this summer, is looking to hire more than 500 employees to staff the restaurant’s second Las Vegas location.

The Hard Rock will be hiring for full- and part-time staff members for positions including supervisors, hosts, servers, bartenders, bussers, retail associates and cooks. Hard Rock’s recruiting team will be hosting a job fair from July 28 to Aug. 5, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the Las Vegas Hilton.

The new 42,000-square foot, three-story Hard Rock will include a 950-seat restaurant, a live concert venue and a rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia shop. The new location will reside at the Showcase Mall beside the MGM Grand.

The news comes a day after CityCenter announced that its luxury, nongaming hotel, The Mandarin Oriental, is also hiring more than 500 workers for the hotel’s December opening. The Mandarin Oriental positions are part of the 12,000 employees CityCenter announced it would be hiring last December.

The Hard Rock Hotel, which is separate from the Hard Rock Café, held a job fair last month to hire 800 workers for its $750 million expansion project, bringing its employment total to 1,200 by the end of 2009.

Discussion: 8 comments so far…

By davidwayneosedach

7/21/09 at 12:28 p.m.

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Five hundred jobs at the Hard Rock Cafe? This is good news for restauarnt employees!
By onerare1

7/21/09 at 3:07 p.m.

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It is definitely a missprint. there should only be 50 position at most, not the 500 listed.
It shouldn't take more employees to run a hard rock cafe than it takes to run the mandarin oriental.
By Amanda Finnegan (Staff)

7/21/09 at 3:55 p.m.

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Onerare1, It isn't a misprint. Hard Rock Cafe is hiring 500 for its new Strip location. The cafe won't just be a restaurant; it will also include a live concert venue and Hard Rock's largest memorabilia shop in the world.
By Katie

7/21/09 at 4:23 p.m.

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I suppose no one over 30 will even be considered...
By denro

7/21/09 at 4:25 p.m.

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I get it amanda, and it sure does sound like a lot of hires for that property. I could see maybe a couple of hundred or so, but 500? Wow.
By denro

7/21/09 at 4:42 p.m.

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Maybe it's hire five hundred for the opening period, then after a while have a round of layoffs, keeping the best of the best.
By revtomperl

7/21/09 at 5:43 p.m.

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This is a very bad time in Lost Wages, Nevada and these numbers will mean that there will be a few permanent jobs and lot of temporaries. Good luck with that! So that will absorb a per cent or so of the unemployed - and they will get to stay until the water in lake mead dries up!
By stevem

7/21/09 at 6:33 p.m.

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katie and denro are both right.

they'll hire 500 people under the age of 25.

90% will be hot girls.
9% will be hot guys.

1% will be ugly dishwashers and cooks.

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