Super Bowl Live stretches along Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. On one side is Alain Lenne's La Belle Crêpe restaurant.
"Nobody's coming in to work, so I lost all those people, and then I get all the people from out of town. So I'm not making any more money," Lenne said. "I'm just, it's just I'm replacing one customer with the other customer."
Across Nicollet Avenue you'll find a Market Bar-B-Que food truck.
"Locals are staying home, and it's mostly the people that are either working at the convention center with NFL Experience, or they're visiting it, and a lot of out-of-towners we've been seeing the last couple days," Michael Kingsbury of Market Bar-B-Que said.
Neither restaurant knew what to expect when the Super Bowl arrived in town.
"Business has been up and down, the few of the warmer days have been really good...colder days have been slower," Kingsbury said.
"If it was warmer, it'd be a lot more people, like two days ago, it was like packed with people because it was nice outside," Lenne said.
So far, Lenne says he hasn't seen an economic boon from Super Bowl LII.
"So when they say, 'Oh you guys make a fortune,' it does not happen," Lenne said.
"It's kind of a wash," Kingsbury said.
But still a good time.
"Fun thing to have in the city," Kingsbury said.
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