Football Sundays are bad business for restaurants.
You might think that people love to go out to eat during the football game. They can go to a big round table, watch a giant screen TV, grab a beer from the bar, and sit around with her friends watching plays and making a bunch of noise.
That is absolutely true if you're talking about a sports bar.
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However, restaurants are quite different. They don't have the TV blasting. The TVs that they do have are not going to be giant full size units.
It's true that you can sit with your friends, grab some beers from the bar, and make a bunch of noise.... but you're also going to be sitting next to a couple of ladies with their eight kids in tiny high chairs that aren't going to appreciate your football shenanigans.
That's just the way it is.
Not to mention the fact that football games are often enjoyed at the house. Don't you love to grab beers from your own fridge? Don't you love to have a giant tray of chicken wings and Doritos that you purchased yourself for much cheaper than the sports bar?
How about the convenience of using your own bathroom?
Football Sundays at a restaurant mean that will a walking around doing not a lot.
That's not to say that it will never be busy, but it will generally be way less busy than a sports bar. Sports bars are great for watching a game. Being at the house is good for watching a game.
Restaurants?
Not really.
Football Sundays are bad business for restaurants.
My husband hasn't left his TV all day. He's been obsessed with football since the season started. I can't get him to leave the house on Sundays very often. Sorry business is slow! People like my husband are to blame.
Get him to sign up on Scorum. It's a steemit clone about sports. If you're a stats guy you can do very well there. I've heard of people earning a great deal of money and their coin is already on coinmarketcap at $0.30.
That's a really great suggestion. All he does is talk about sports. Drives me crazy. Maybe I can get him to put that to good use and earn some coin.
Sundays are the days our family gets together at restaurants, though admittedly not to watch football lol.
Here in England, it's also a good day for vouchers and coupons, which you download from the internet, and allows you to get 25 percent off the food bill, at most joints.
Vouchers and coupons are generally not available on Saturdays, when restaurants have plenty of regular business.
I wonder if on football days, your restaurant makes vouchers available, as it always seems over here, that the restaurants who print the vouchers get all the trade. :0
I've literally never heard of a restaurant taking vouchers or coupons. I can't imagine such a thing. I think if this was happening on Sunday that none of the servers would want to work those days, because the less money you make, the less tips you make and we work completely on tips without any hourly wage.
That's not the case here. Waiters get a fair hourly wage, but tips are two thirds US, percentage wise.
Of course, the restaurants that do the vouchers that I'm talking about are the popular middle level restaurant chains, somewhere above McDonalds but below Michelin starred restaurants: eg: Ask Italian, Prezzo, Bella Italia, Zizzi, etc, and of course, even Pizza Express and Pizza Hut.
The vouchers operate every day of the week except Saturday. I think if someone shows up without a voucher at those places, people will think they are dumb.
I guess different countries have different food cultures. :)
unless its buffalo wild wings.
then.... you're not walking out of there with your ear drums intact. that moisture you feel on your jaw? yeah that's the blood dripping from your ears