Luxor to Close Its Skippable Buffet

By Scott Roeben, on March 12 2025
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Luxor is closing its buffet (technically “The Buffet at Luxor”), following a trend that accelerated following the pandemic.

This story was first reported by Corey Levitan, right here at Casino.org, which we’re really irritated by, but we’re trying to get past it.

We since confirmed the closure through official sources, so it’s a done deal. The Luxor buffet closes on March 30, 2025.

We took this photo in June 2021, so we technically got the scoop first. Very “technically.”

Casinos tend to hate buffets, as they’re a holdover from a time when cheap buffets were used to entice gamblers to their establishments. In recent years, though loss leaders have fallen out of favor.

Most casino buffets are big money losers. Before closing virtually all its buffets, Caesars Entertainment said its buffets lost an average of $3 million a year. Each. Individually. That math isn’t mathing.

So, when COVID hit, casinos saw it as an opportunity to lose buffets and bolster their bottom lines.

Cleopatra renovated the Luxor Temple and Avenue of Sphinxes during her reign. She also loved crab legs.

Luxor’s buffet survived the pandemic, reopening September 1, 2021 after a temporary closure.

Luxor has a three-star rating on Yelp, so nothing to write home about. In related news, virtually nobody writes home anymore.

There’s no word yet about what will replace The Buffet a Luxor, but we’ll be damned if Levitan is going to get that story first.

Luxor already has a food court, so, your guess is as good as ours at this point.

As always, our heart goes out to the soon-to-be-displaced employees at the Luxor buffet.

Working at a buffet is a thankless job. Until now. Thank you.

Somehow, that doesn’t sounds as comforting as we thought it would. Eh, these are union jobs, they’ll be fine.