During the 46 days from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, Catholics are forbidden from eating meat on Fridays and Ash Wednesday. That makes for eight days a year where Catholics cannot stroll into their favorite steakhouse and order a prime rib. But are steakhouses able to notice any effect?

“You can tell Fridays are generally busier, but during Lent business drops by about a third,” a source at downtown Washington, D.C., Morton’s The Steakhouse told the Washington Examiner. “It depends on the week, but there’s a noticeable drop.”