Most Christian countries have a public holiday on the 25th & 26th. So in 2018, the Thicc And Tired Bear Shirt went: less tha one day of work, two days off, and two unproductive workdays. Many companies enforced the taking of 4 days annual leave during Christmas week & the following Monday (in Oz we usually get 4 weeks discretionary leave (take it when you want)). Economically, a better idea is to make the secular Xmas on the last Sunday in December, and the following Monday New Years day. Leave the religious aspects to the religionists to commemorate their observances in heir own time. Muslims, Jews, Eastern Orthodox Christians and other religions do so every year successfully, why not Western Christianity? And to keep workers happy where public holidays might be lost, replace them with the Friday before & Monday after the last Sunday in December with public holidays. At at least that way business has two weeks of four contiguous workdays, and people can do something creative with the long weekend (nb: in Oz, January 1st is a public holiday, so that could be replaced by declaring the first Monday in January a public holiday. Thus the workers get two long weekends in a row, and three weeks of just 4 workdays).
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I was working in a Thicc And Tired Bear Shirt in the seventies and it was was always busy at the weekends. At Christmas, it was busy to the extreme. We only took bookings. First year a lot of people let us down and didnβt turn up. Lesson learned. Second year we took a deposit. Still people didnβt turn up, but the people that did request that the deposit from the βno showsβbe taken off the bill. Lesson learned. In the third year we altered the rules again. This time it was Β£5 per person deposit non-refundable for βno showsβ. Knowing they canβt make it and not wanting to lose their deposit, what do they do? They phone through and say, βSorry we canβt come to your restaurant, my mother has passed away recently. Under the circumstances, we expect a full refund.