Why are bakeries closed on mondays

You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Hey guys I'm just wondering why pastry shops and bakeries close on sundays I know most of them usually close on mondays.

But is it better to have mondays and tuesdays close instead of sundays and mondays? I think it depends on the location. I was a benchman for Sabo food service back in the 80's and got to work at am each morning. The bakery was located on the bottom floor of a huge skyscraper in downtown Chicago, and catered to the office workers Mon-Fri.

After Friday at in the morning I was done for the weekend. I had all the rest of Friday, all Saturday, but Sunday, I had to be in bed at in order to get back into the work mode for Monday. Then I went to work in a bakery that was located in a shopping mall. We never closed. We baked and sold from am to pm every day of the week. I never understood closing on Sunday though as you would think that it would be a good sales day.

But we hoping to relocate to the town and if we close it will be on a sunday thhis time as its dead in there on Sunday-partly because most of the other shops are closed because you have to pay staff time and a half on Sunday over here and it can just be too costly to stay open. You must log in or register to reply here. Popular Threads. What did you have for dinner? However, it will be useful to consider that eating places are usually closed on a certain day in the week, and can imagine that this day is Monday!

I will tell you a quick story; when I have been to Italy last summer I went down from my hotel looking for a local pizza restaurant. I strolled around the neighborhood looking for one but I couldn't find any nearby in the neighborhood. I had to stop a taxi and travel 35 miles away from the city center until I could find a small all restaurant that could serve me the Italian local pizza that I was longing for. To my bad luck, it was my 1st day in Italy that I arrived at and it was a Monday that I unpacked my luggage at the hotel on.

I stayed in Italy for 8 days before I went back to my office in NY, but I had not had the chance to get the pasta I always heard about and it was almost my last day to find a reputable resultant serving Italian Pasta. And again, to my luck, it was on the second Monday in Italy I have been unlucky again to forget that there is no pasta restaurant available open in the neighborhood. Yet, my Italian friend Luca could guide me to a fantastic restaurant and gave me a drive with his Ferrari to the outskirts of Milano.

I ensure the pasta with the red wine and mushroom that day that I cannot forget the taste of it on my tough taste buds till now. Not only are restaurants closed on Monday in Italy and other countries in Europe but it is also worth mentioning that bakeries and other food services are typically closed on Mondays. The reason behind this is simple economics! Restaurants and other small businesses working on food processing have Monday as their slowest business day in the week.

People normally work all week from Monday to Friday and have rest and enjoy the time on Saturday and Sunday. Italians spend all their weekends in having fun, going out to restaurants and pubs to start a new week on Monday so basically is the busiest day of the week. This encourages the business owners to give their weekly days off on Monday as it would be the least in walk-ins and revenues.

In Egypt barbers get Monday as a day off and when I asked if they have a reason for this they could not even give me a solid answer except for the fact that they were born to see this tradition. In China, some fish restaurants don't operate on Monday mainly because fishmongers don't bring fresh fish on Monday. I love traveling that I save every penny every year to see a new place on the other side of the world.

Italy though is a great country to visit. But I have learned that when I come back to it, I have to make sure I do look for neither a bakery nor a restaurant on Mondays.

They are almost all closed that day. When I found this fact at the beginning I thought it would be because they do not have fresh food to serve to the customers, but in reality also because Monday is usually the busiest day in the week!

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