Restaurants in World Cup Host Cities not only saw a huge economic boom from the tournament, but also saw success in ways they did not anticipate. <\/p>\n
Dr. Emily Williams-Knight is President and CEO of the Texas Restaurant Association. <\/p>\n
She says while some saw huge crowds, others benefited differently.<\/p>\n
“Honestly, I also had a restaurant call from Dallas and say ‘I’m not getting the traffic during the day but my to-go is really high,'” Dr. Williams-Knight said. “We saw those sales increase too.”<\/p>\n
Because of that, some restaurants are learning how to better cater to their customers. <\/p>\n
It’s possible they can put out ‘to-go’ packages for major events for people to enjoy at home in the future.<\/p>\n
One worry going into the World Cup about tipping has also been answered.<\/p>\n
There were worries that those not accustomed to tipping would not do it. <\/p>\n
“I think that people that traveled internationally to Dallas, as an example, it’s not as if they did not know anything about our culture,” Williams-Knight said. “When we go to Europe, we know that typically the tip is usually always fixed in, it was just the same here.”<\/p>\n
However, she says while the Texas Restaurant Association advised their members to leave mandatory gratuity up to their individual business model, others states did things differently.<\/p>\n
She says in some cases, that practice backfired as it upset many local and loyal customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restaurants in World Cup Host Cities not only saw a huge economic boom from the tournament, but also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20313,137649,27,29,28,19993],"class_list":["post-390808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-bars-and-restaurants","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-restaurant-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}