Our track record when it comes to holidays is pretty spotty. Sometimes we close, sometimes we open. When we're open the owner would joke: "Beats staying at home and babysitting..." and laugh, he didn't get that some of us liked our kids and family...
Holidays are usually busy, busy with people that don't value holidays or tipping, cruel to say, but generally immigrant families who don't know how to make a turkey, or don't have space to accommodate them all...they'd usually want to bring their own dessert, and drink water, you could be run off your feet and make what you'd a made on a slow Tuesday or Wednesday lunch.
So we close, the owner's gotten a little more laid back about this holiday stuff, only now instead of working the half day Monday we work the entire rest of the week, doubles every one, no matter how slow or unnecessary we are. And so the long weekend becomes an even longer week...