Gold Strike Casino
The Gold Strike Casino in Tunica, MS is a riverboat facility on the Mississippi River just south of Memphis, TN. Originally opened in 1995, the casino has had some form of a Big Dipper servicing its kitchen since its construction.
An STS-750 (precursor to the W-750-AST: Product Catalog) was the first system installed, but was moved and upgraded to a W-750-IS two years later as the casino expanded. However, the location of this system was not the most convenient for maintenance. It was shoe horned into a space at the bottom of the riverboat underneath a small maintenance room with an access cover about 2' by 2'. Besides being hard to access, this space opens directly to the Mississippi River. It was not uncommon to pop open the hatch after a good rain and come face to face with a number of none-to-friendly water moccasins. So one can see the reluctance to hop down into a cramped, dank and possibly occupied pit to service the Big Dipper.
According to Cecil Hanks, the Director of Facilities and Chief Engineer of Gold Strike Casino, the W-750-IS system worked well. However, there were the obvious maintenance issues as well as sizing issues. The casino recently had added a 1,200 room hotel and upgraded its restaurant facilities to include a buffet-style restaurant, a steak house, a food court, and a gourmet restaurant. For the hotel guests and nearly 1,500 employees, this translates into an average of 5,000 meals being prepared per day. With the influx of new food preparation facilities, the 75 GPM Big Dipper was simply not enough to handle the effluent flows.
“While we are not yet under the auspices of a pretreatment program, we do realize that we need to maintain control of our grease situation. And with the expansion of our facilities, we wanted better flexibility with our interceptors. The larger, centralized unit was in a terrible location and was difficult to service properly. With this knowledge, we decided to install source units directly into our kitchens.”
As a result, the central W-750-IS was removed and a total of 5 W-200-IS's, 1 W-250-IS and four FS-1 Flat Strainers were installed directly into the casino's three kitchens.
“The end result is we are removing around 60 gallons of grease per week. It's a lot easier to maintain units installed underneath a sink and not beneath the riverboat itself. We have a lot more flexibility, as well. We can shuffle units around if we decide a sink is not generating a lot of grease and install it where grease is a problem.”
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