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I recently discovered your blog and have been reading through older posts. Great stuff.
Your posts about the need to stay open later hours spurred me to share this story about a local business. Makers Donuts is a wildly popular doughnut shop. They’re located just outside downtown, next to a cemetery. The same people also run a coffee shop next to the doughnut shop, but the location is still out of the way and odd.
When they started their hours were 7AM to 1PM Thursday to Sunday. Closed Monday to Wednesday. Despite the restricted hours and odd location they literally had lines out the door and often sold out before closing time.
After being open for several months they tried an experiment. They stayed open until midnight on a Friday (one of our monthly First Fridays when there is a lot going on). It was a big hit and now they are open until midnight every Friday and Saturday.
The moral of the story is: you can sell a lot of doughnuts to people with late night munchies. Also it’s probably smart to be open more on weekends and close during the week. Also, if you make great doughnuts the world will beat a path to your door.
https://www.makersdonuts.com
(Knoxville isn’t a small town but I think everything you write about here is applicable to us too).
Greg, thanks for sharing the late-night doughnut story! I hope it will inspire more businesses to try later hours, even as a temporary experiment.