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RE: Football Sundays are bad business for restaurants.
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. :)