TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Tallahassee’s college students are enjoying their spring break this week, but some businesses in College Town are feeling their absence.
While some businesses in College Town are still open during Spring Break, they say business isn’t as good as usual.
With student employees and customers out of town, businesses are resorting to shortening their hours, or even closing their doors for the week.
Employees are still able to get their hours, but they’re doing jobs they wouldn’t normally do.
For BLND, a smoothie and sandwich shop on Madison Street, team members are spending their work week cleaning up and doing other tasks to improve the restaurant for when students return.
Kitchen Manager Will Collins said foot traffic has been very light this week.
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“Between Mondays and Wednesday, traffic is a little light as far as clientele. Thursday picks up; weekends are heavier,” said Collins. “Sunday is our busiest day. When Spring Break came around, it’s been drastically slow as compared to a normal week.”
Collins said more locals and families are visiting, but it’s not like business as usual.
He said he’s adapting to the week as best he can.
“We expected it to be slow so what we’re doing is we’re updating different checklists, doing a lot of spring cleaning, going through and just kind of making things… implementing different systems to make things a lot more simple for when the students arrive back in town,” said Collins.
BLND is closing two hours earlier than usual this week.
They also decided to close their doors on Saturday, but hours will be back to normal on Sunday when students start coming back to town.
Collins said he looks forward to next week because there will be more hungry students, and more people around to get things accomplished.
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