Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「Trendy new restaurants are closing their kitchens at 8 p.m. Movie theaters are swapping late-night screenings for matinees. Even Broadway has moved up curtain times. Hybrid and remote workers eager to leave the house as soon as they log off are fueling the shift.⁠ ⁠ Restaurants are now seating 10% of diners between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., up from 5% in 2019, according to Yelp. Uber trips to restaurants in the 4 p.m. hour have increased nearly 10% since 2019, the company says, while rides to restaurants after 8 p.m. are down 9%. ⁠ ⁠ Some night owls think we’re all getting a bit dull. Others embrace the mass backward slide of our activities. In New Orleans, notorious for late nights, concert promoter River Beats used to schedule main acts to start as late as 1 a.m. Now, a typical event starts at 6 p.m. and ends at 11 p.m. at the latest.⁠ ⁠ “We noticed a decline in attendance at late-night events and a demand for earlier events,” co-founder Sean Schmidt says. “We didn’t totally know why it was happening, but it was, and realized soon the promoters not meeting this demand would likely fall behind.”⁠ ⁠ Kristina Dinino-Jeffords, who owns the dine-in ROC Cinema in Rochester, N.Y., recently ended late-night screenings and added a 3 p.m. weekday show, and has been surprised by its popularity. Many customers at early shows are young professionals, some of whom she suspects of playing hooky.⁠ ⁠ “They have to order food and drinks on their phones anyway, so it wouldn’t be hard to shoot off a quick work email during a lull in the drama,” she jokes.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ Photo Illustration: Sam Kelly/WSJ, iStock (2)」7月24日 4時00分