Eating out is, for many families, a special treat. Sundays are special days for many churchgoers, too. Because the whole family is all together after the Sunday-morning service, it's fairly convenient to go right to a restaurant for lunch afterward - special meal on a special day and all that.

This is actually a fairly-established tradition - going to church as a family, then going out for lunch afterward. My grandmother's family did this when she was a child, for example, and my dad remembers going out for lunch after church as well.

However, plenty of churchgoers, in the past and present, go home or eat at the church sometimes, leaving the restaurant meals for, say, one Sunday a month, if that often. We don't hit the restaurants every Sunday afternoon, which is good because then we'd NEVER get a seat!

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