The story is similar at Ramos Pizza near South 48th Street and Normal Boulevard. By 4:30 p.m., an hour before the game, manager Drew Wirges said the phone was ringing off the hook.

“We’re pretty much as staffed as our kitchen can hold right now,” he said.

At Smokehouse Deli, 621 N. 48th St., owner Beth Borgmann had prepared more than 1,500 wings specifically for Super Bowl Sunday.

“It’s our biggest day of the year,” she said.

Once the game started, Buffalo Wings & Rings in the Railyard was not that busy, at least inside the restaurant. But that’s because Super Bowl fans were more likely to stay at home and watch the game, owner Amy Snyder said.

And so she offered incentives for those customers ordering take-out, and her strategy seems to have worked. Carry out orders for Buffalo Wings & Rings tripled a typical day of sales, she said.

Jesse Reece, owner of Born in a Barn at 815 O St., said he also expected Super Bowl Sunday to be a pretty low-key night for his bar and wings establishment, which has been open only for six months.

“I doubt we’ll see too many people that haven’t been here before,” he said.