{"id":2070,"date":"2026-07-05T13:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2026-07-05T13:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:44:27","slug":"business-owners-near-the-fifa-fan-festival-prepared-for-crowds-not-all-saw-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2070","title":{"rendered":"Business owners near the FIFA Fan Festival prepared for crowds. Not all saw them."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yolanda Welch, owner of All Day Hoagies, walked down West Girard Avenue to grab lunch. It was just a couple hours before the start of another World Cup match in Philly, but near the FIFA Fan Festival, Brewerytown\u2019s main drag was nearly empty.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2068\">Philly will close 17 schools and modernize 169. Meet the educator leading the transition.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNormally, I\u2019m not able to do this,\u201d Welch said, as the lunchtime rush usually keeps her too busy to leave her post.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>She had free time on Thursday, she said, because the regular midday crowd had thinned ever since the FIFA Fan Festival arrived at Lemon Hill, about a half-mile away. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>City officials have estimated that hundreds of thousands of people have flocked to the monthlong World Cup watch party, which started in mid-June and is set to run through mid-July. But last week some Brewerytown business owners said they had yet to reap the benefits. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In nearby Fairmount, some bar managers said they had seen a soccer-fueled boost in business. But several other neighborhood shop owners said they were only breaking even, with the slight increase in tourist traffic offset by a sharp drop in regular customers. Parking restrictions and street closures have kept many locals away, business owners said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>A World Cup let-down for some in Brewerytown <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Many Philadelphia business owners said they had high expectations for the World Cup: Some near the Fan Festival stocked up on inventory and even hired extra staff. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI ordered all kinds of soccer stuff to put in ice cream,\u201d said Welch, who owns the hoagie shop and I Scream for Ice Cream. \u201cI bought a whole [World Cup] banner.\u201d <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>As of Thursday, Welch said she hadn\u2019t seen enough soccer fans to justify putting out the merchandise or unfurling the banner, which still sat in her car. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Business is down precipitously at All Day Hoagies, which usually goes through 200 rolls a day. Since the World Cup began, the number has dropped to 125 or fewer.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Across the street, AJ Kim, front-of-house manager at Baby\u2019s Kusina + Market, hired two extra employees to run food ahead of the festival.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe were prepared for a huge crowd,\u201d Kim said. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t much at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Like other business owners, Kim said the temporary parking rules have confused regular customers, and stories of residents being ticketed and towed are scaring many patrons away. According to Kim, a Baby\u2019s chef was among those erroneously ticketed by the Philadelphia Parking Authority, despite displaying the required temporary permits.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Every night, a handful of people cancel their Baby\u2019s reservations, saying they are worried about parking, Kim said. Staff has tried to dispel misinformation on social media, and lends temporary parking passes to diners, but uncertainty remains. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Some spots see steady business<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Some businesses are faring better than others, even if they aren\u2019t seeing crowds of soccer fans every day.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Josh Kim, owner of Spot Gourmet Burgers in Brewerytown, said international tourists have made special trips to his restaurant for one thing: American cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2066\">Phoenixville\u2019s Bluebird Distilling combines alcohol and artisanal dough making in new $2.2M expansion<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen people go to Italy, they want pasta and pizza,\u201d Josh Kim said. \u201cWhen they come to America, they want burgers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>June 19 was a particularly busy day for him: After the Brazil-Haiti match in South Philly, Spot\u2019s sold 200 burgers in less than an hour, he said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>But no other recent days have been as lucrative, and Josh Kim said he worries it could take a while for regular customers to return to Girard Avenue once the World Cup games \u2014 and the restrictions \u2014 are over. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cConsumers are habitual,\u201d Josh Kim said. \u201cIf [they] break that habit, they no longer think about going to Girard Avenue. \u2026 They\u2019ll go up Ridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>On Boathouse Row, across the street from the Fan Festival, Cosmic Caf\u00e9 and Ciderhouse has seen steady business, manager Sachael Sciarretta said. About 30% of the cafe\u2019s regulars drive there, and he said he hasn\u2019t seen them since the festival began. But business from soccer fans has made up for the loss.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Fairmount bars and restaurants seem to have been among the biggest World Cup winners. On Thursday afternoon at the Black Taxi, an Irish pub a few blocks from the festival, almost every seat was filled \u2014 several by customers donning soccer jerseys. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cFoot traffic has been great, and the neighborhood is buzzing,\u201d said manager Neil McKernan, who estimated that sales are up 30%. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In the dining room, the Trainor family enjoyed a meal before walking to the Fan Festival to watch the 4 p.m. match between Curacao and Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>It was the first time that Kelly Trainor, 42, of Glenside, had been to the Fairmount watering hole, and she brought along her three young children.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t afford tickets to the game,\u201d Trainor said. \u201cSo this is the next best thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Back in Brewerytown, where the business corridor was quiet, some owners said they wished they could have been more involved in the festivities. Josh Kim, of Spot Gourmet Burgers, said perhaps organizers could have allowed local restaurateurs to sell from food trucks outside the fan entrance.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf we were able to activate this corridor, it would have been a lot different,\u201d Kim said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t they work with the local businesses so we could make the money?\u201d added Welch, of All Day Hoagies. \u201cBecause we ain\u2019t making none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2064\">Dot cake went from TikTok trend to Philly bakeries. Here\u2019s how 3 small businesses jumped on the bandwagon.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business is down at some restaurants in Brewerytown, where some owners say temporary parking restrictions are scaring regulars away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-small-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Business owners near the FIFA Fan Festival prepared for crowds. 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