But California is too spread out. Not enough concentrated protein to keep the beastie well-fed.
How about New Orleans?
Haven’t they had enough problems?
But nobody’s there anymore. I know! Washington DC in the summer time, with a migration route to Florida (it is, after all, God’s waiting room)! 
The larger area will give it nice, health exercise: i.e.-chasing bleached-blond stars/starlets & agents/assisnt producers/exes/whatever.
That’s cruel - such food would have the poor beasty in ill health in no time!
[T. Rex] Oooh, I think that there must have been something wrong with that hippie I ate. [/T. Rex]
Well, let’s go to Sam’s and buy 50# bags of rice and beans! Then we could get away real cheap.
You might be able to save money by teaching it to eat tofu. 
Who, the T. Rex? Nah.
Yes, but where are you going to find a pair of waffle-stompers big enough to fit it?
No. Let it loose in DC and poison itself. 
A large Komodo dragon will eat a goat, then rest for a month. Now a KD at most will not weigh more than 400# (most weigh less than half that), so assuming a TRex weight at 4 tons, we have the TRex weighing 20 times more? Assuming similar metabolisms (and assuming a steer weighing 10X a goat) , then we’d be talking 2 steers every month or so.
Hmmm…it might choke on the silicone enhancements, at that.
What’s an lbm? 
obviously its a mistype for lb (pounds).
Librum of meat.
Drop the tryannosaur into one end of a VERY sturdy caged arena, and start throwing weenie celebrities, lawyers, celebrity-lawyers, and celebrities’ lawyers into the other end.
Sell the footage on pay per view.
Profit! And make the world a better place!
Okay, now back to GQ… I was under the impression that current paleobio theory is that tyrannosaurs and similar dinosaurs were likely scavengers. So the cost wouldn’t be that much; you just throw into the tyrannosaur enclosure the scraps rejected by the kzinti.
Actually, no, it’s deliberate… Or deliberately-induced habit, anyway. A hold over from my Reactor Operator days - It’s a Pound (mass). As opposed to a lbf - Pound (force).
Nucs do a lot of math, and you need to be pretty specific in your units. Failing to distinguish between ‘lbm’ and ‘lbf’ in your calculations at NNPS would cost points on tests, so we learned to be specific. I never got out of the habit.
Jaw-strength and skull-stress & structure analysis rejected that theory. Undoubtably, they did scavenge, but their skulls were stressed and build to kill.
Very much like modern lions, it’s supposed - Lions’ll happily scavenge, but are primary preditors.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to use grams and Newtons?
What?
You’re being silly now, Godzilla has the place sewn up