Philly Restaurants Say DNC Was A Bust For Business

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The Democratic National Convention is said to have brought a lot of revenue to Philadelphia. But how did the restaurants fare?

Melissa Bova, director of Government affairs with the Pennsylvania Restaurant and Lodging Association says restaurant revenue during the DNC was underwhelming.

"For those restaurants that were booked out either for the full week or for various parties, they did very well; but the kind of trickle effect that we were kind of hoping to see in the rest of our restaurants by people attending the convention really didn't happen so most of them did see a decline in revenue during the DNC."

This was a double whammy for Philadelphia restaurants in less than a year.

"We had been told that this would be nothing like the Pope's visit. Of course it wasn't as extreme."

For restaurants, the DNC didn't live up to the hype.

"Mayor Kenney, when the Convention was first announced said this was going to be different and the people were going to be out in the streets and Philadelphia's open for business."

But Bova says they didn't take into consideration that the convention takes place in the evening during prime dinner hours, from about 4-midnight.