To think it's weird that chippies aren't open on Sunday evening

[LaurieFairyCake]

this has always baffled me

Its a weekend night, why dont they shut Mondays/Tuesday's when no one wants take away.

I've had to order Chinese instead

Ours is.

My mum's dad was a fishmonger and had a chippy too, they were always closed Sunday and Monday. No fisherman would ever sail on a Sunday, far too superstitious and religious for that, no fishing on Sunday meant no catch for the markets on Monday morning so no fish for sale.

What's worse is when you sit downwith the chinese menu to plan what feast you will be ordering, dial the restaurant to order the take away you are going to have with a lovely bottle of wine, and after it just keeps ringing, you realise it's Tuesday and it's closed. There is nothing that can replace Chinese food, at least you can get chips somewhere else

Ours are all open and the neighbouring up-itself suburb has a chippy that does gluten free on a Sunday night :)

ours is open every night

Traditionally people always have had a big Sunday dinner, so then wouldn't be ordering another full meal in on a Sunday night - you'd have a sarnie, or afternnon tea, not a cooked meal. Makes sense then to have that night off.
A huge % of chippies are family owned and run, so it's not unreasonable to think they should take one day a week off.

Ours is open Sunday, but closes another day (Tuesday, I think).

Ours has just started opening on a sunday evening.

Open Sunday til 4pm (weird)

Ilive in a pineapple
I am so with out on that chinese thing .Why is it they close on a Tuesday. Why is it that I always want a Chinese on a Tuesday. I shoudl ask next time I'm in

should I meant should

Ours is and it also opens until stupid hours on a weekend. Nothing like scraps, chips and curry sauce at 4am

Isn't Tuesday their Sundays? Day of rest etc? I'm sure that's what I have been told at some point...

My Chippy used to open on Sundays, then stopped. And now shut at 9pm rather than the usual 11.30pm so I now can't stop off on the way back from the pub on the odd occasion I get to go [cries]

They don't even sell Gravy anymore

Chinese with wine?!

Chinese food makes,me feel sick. I love Indian take away on a Sunday night simetimes.

Damn it I want chips now. There is not a whiff of a decent chippy round here. We have a dominos instead. Nice pizza, doesn't beat fish, chips and scrunchins though!

my dd (6)won't let me buy dominos as she is horrifird that they make their staff stand on street corners wearing a domino pizza billboard sign thing.
fair play to her. I am soooooo proud

If you are proper you would cook a proper roast at lunchtime then you would only need a cheese sandwich or something for tea.

That's why the chip shop is shut.

YANBU. DP and I had this dilemma earlier!

Our ones are open until 11/12 Nagoo not everyone does a roast on sundays you could be out all day and not want to cook or back off holiday.

We also have a chinese thats open tuesdays

I love my Sunday Roasts. I plan things around my Sunday Roasts. I will happily stay out, if there is a place where I can get a Roast Dinner. Or visit someone, if they are doing a Roast. Sunday just isn't Sunday to me without one. I look forward all week to my Sundays.

Needs to get a life

But, I can forgive someone having a Curry. Or Spag Bol. Or a BBQ. Just puuurrrllleeeeaaaasssee, no chips. Chips on a Sunday should be banished. And Pizza. Those are weekday foods.

Again, needs to get a life

All takeaways, of whatever persuasion, should be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to cope with midnight or 3a.m. munchies. They can have Christmas day off if they absolutely must.
(But what about the poor sods who have to work over Christmas, eh, eh?????)
And some people have to work Sundays too so they can't do the full Sunday Lunch Roast either.

local chinese closes tuesday. don't know why. assumed it was because it was a slow night.