Greg Thilmont
Wolfgang Puck and Eric Klein on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015, in Downtown Summerlin.
Monday, Nov. 2, 2015 | 12:32 p.m.
This week, Monday By the Numbers unfurls the stats as related to food and play and a combination thereof.
Featured is Wolfgang Puck’s Bar & Grill in Downtown Summerlin (which is actually in Summerlin, we’re glad to report), which celebrates its first anniversary Thursday. Who doesn’t love a little Puck?
Clint Holmes and Earl Turner (who perform together Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon at Cabaret Jazz) and even Center Bar at the Hard Rock Hotel also are in play:
Dial it up:
33: Years since Puck opened his first Spago restaurant on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood.
23: Years since Puck opened Spago at the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, the restaurant that helped launch the fine-dining boom in Las Vegas.
17,400: House-made meatballs served over the last year at the Puck restaurant in Downtown Summerlin (“house” is to indicate “Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant”).
269,000: Ounces of beer poured.
29,000: Cocktails served.
10,500: Pounds of pizza dough mixed, bouled, proofed, stretched and baked.
58,700: Eggs served.
111,360: Man-woman hours worked.
21,000 Pounds of chicken grilled and roasted.
6: Weight, in ounces, of a standard NHL puck.
20,000: Seating capacity at Las Vegas Arena.
52: Weekends MGM Resorts International hopes to have Las Vegas Arena booked.
0: Shows currently booked at Planet Hollywood’s showroom, where “America’s Got Talent Live” most recently was staged from Oct. 22-24.
50: Age shared by Troy Burgess of “Rock of Ages” and Carrot Top.
60: Minutes Chris Brown performed at Drai’s atop the Cromwell on Halloween, including a full-costume cover of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
4: Hours of material developed by Piff the Magic Dragon to use in his stage show, which opens Nov. 9 at Flamingo Las Vegas.
20: Years since Center Bar opened at the Hard Rock Hotel.
6: Drinks developed by Hard Rock Hotel employees who have worked at Center Bar since it opened in 1995.
29: Years since Holmes served as announcer for Joan Rivers’ “Late Show,” the first show broadcast on Fox.
14: Episodes in which Holmes appeared on the show.
26: Years since Turner made his Strip debut — at the since-imploded Dunes.
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