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What’s open on Easter 2024? A guide to restaurants (McDonald’s), grocery stores and more (Target)

A look at what’s open on Easter 2024.

A happy Easter to all who celebrate out there!

We hope you’re enjoy the day, but if you’re here, you’re probably looking for a guide to what’s open on Easter 2024, which is usually when a lot of businesses are closed due to the holiday.

But there are some that stay open on March 31, 2024, and this is where we caution you: Please check with your local restaurants, grocery stores and pharmacies. Some of these locations might have limited hours.

Got it? Good. Here’s a list of some of the notable places that are reportedly open on Easter in 2024, grouped by categories:

What restaurants and fast food places are open on Easter 2024?

Here’s a partial list:

  • McDonald’s
  • Applebee’s
  • Wendy’s
  • Olive Garden
  • Red Lobster
  • KFC
  • IHOP
  • Subway
  • Taco Bell
  • White Castle

Will Starbucks and Dunkin’ be open on Easter 2024?

They will!

Which pharmacies are open on Easter 2024?

  • CVS (but check with your location)
  • Rite Aid
  • Walgreens

Which grocery stores will be open on Easter 2024?

  • Kroger
  • Trader Joe’s
  • Walmart
  • Whole Foods (with limited hours)
  • Wegman’s
  • Albertson’s stores
  • Harris Teeter

Jesus scored for Arsenal on Easter. The jokes just write themselves.

He even rose to score from a cross!

Gabriel Jesus scoring on Easter. It was written.

The Arsenal striker gave his side a two-goal lead in the first half against Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday, and gave everyone the chance to take a crack at their best Easter-related Jesus pun.

To make things even more appealing for the joke-writers among us, Jesus scored when he rose up to connect with a header from a cross. Those are what we call key words.

The goal by Jesus followed an even more impressive feat from FC Dallas on Saturday night, as three players with “Jesus” as part of their name combined for a goal against Inter Miami.

Naturally, on Sunday, there were jokes aplenty after Arsenal’s Jesus scored on the day commemorating his ancient namesake.

One Easter there was HUGE Washington football news

Remember the last big Washington football news on Easter?

Easter is time for reflection, reflection on many things much more significant and important than your favorite NFL football team.

Historically, much of Western Civilization has taken the time to make it a week of reflection and celebration. There is Palm Sunday, the Passion Week, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday/Resurrection Day.

Washington NFL football fans were most likely not thinking much about the then-Redskins on the Easter weekend of 2010. The NFL draft was still a couple of weeks away. The major free agency moves had already transpired a month earlier.

Bam! Suddenly news was breaking on that 2010 Easter weekend that Washington had made a huge surprising trade. Not only had they made a trade on Easter weekend, but the trade engineered by owner Daniel Snyder was within the NFC East division.

After 11 NFL seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, Donovan McNabb was being traded to Washington! In the trade, Washington received McNabb, a 33-year-old, 11-season veteran.

In return, the Eagles received Washington’s round-two 2010 draft choice. It was the 37th overall selection. In addition, Washington agreed to send a 2011 conditional choice to the Eagles.

If Washington were to win 9 games or McNabb make the 2010 season Pro Bowl, the choice would be Washington’s third-rounder. Seeing neither of those conditions were met in 2010, the choice traded to the Eagles in 2011 was a fourth-round choice (104th overall).

McNabb struggled at times in his lone season in Washington, with 14 touchdowns and 15 interceptions. His interception percentage tied the worst season of his career (rookie season). McNabb’s QBR was his career season-low, and his passer rating was the lowest since his second NFL season.

Washington had been had. Andy Reid was finished with McNabb, realizing his best days were behind him, and he found a team within his own division more than willing to take McNabb off of his hands and provide the Eagles a third and fourth-round draft choice.

 

LOOK: Texas fans, players hilariously react to Lincoln Riley’s Easter brisket

When Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley posted a picture of his Easter brisket, Texas fans and players began to roast the finished product.

It wasn’t the Easter Sunday that Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley was expecting. Continue reading “LOOK: Texas fans, players hilariously react to Lincoln Riley’s Easter brisket”

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Notre Dame combines Easter and basketball with one tweet

Happy Easter, everybody!

For Christians, Easter is the holiest day of the year. Naturally, the day is a big deal at Notre Dame, though you probably knew this given that you’re reading this site. Among the places Easter Mass is being held on campus this year is the Joyce Center. That meant the opportunity to stage a photo appropriate for both the day and the location:

There’s no word yet on whether the priest in this photo actually shot the ball or if he simply posed with it. We don’t even know if we’ll get an answer to that question. Regardless, you have to admit it’s an awesome sight to see a priest getting ready to celebrate Mass and working on his balling. He’s even using the correct hand on the left side the basket.

Happy Easter to everybody who comes to our site throughout the year. We appreciate you taking time out of your day to read what we have to offer. It makes all of our efforts worthwhile.

Some Personal Thoughts as We Begin Celebrating Christmas

There’s no doubt about it: 2020 has been hard on all of us. Whether big or small, COVID-19 is a real presence in our lives.

There’s no doubt about it: 2020 has been hard on all of us. Whether big or small, COVID-19 is a real presence in our lives. Even with two vaccines slowly beginning to be rolled out, they’ve come too late to prevent many of us from spending Christmas away from our loved ones. It’s one more loss in a year that’s taken so many things away from us.

I was no exception to any of this. On Easter, I lost my 95-year-old grandmother, the wife of a proud Notre Dame alumnus whose ties to the university are why I embrace the gold and blue. Over the summer, the uncertainty caused by the virus led my fiancee and I to postpone our Nov. 7 wedding and our life together by a year, though that allowed me to cover an Irish upset of Clemson that ranks near the top of games in the program’s history. On Oct. 14, we had to mourn the sudden death of my fiancee’s father who, despite being an avowed Notre Dame hater and loyalist to Nick Saban and Alabama, gave me his blessing to propose to his daughter the year before.

But through all of that and much more, I had Fighting Irish Wire to come back to, and it’s a community I’ve been proud to be a part of. I want to thank Nick Shepkowski for bringing me aboard a year ago and running this site as smoothly and professionally as possible. I also want to thank Michael Chen and Jeff Feyerer for writing with such quality that I’ve been encouraged to raise my own game. Special thanks also goes to Patrick Sturgeon, our managing editor, for his leadership and always giving us guidance to make this a site with content to rival that of more prominent outlets in sports journalism.

Most of all, I want to thank the readers for coming back here, trusting us and spreading the word about us. You make it worth the time we spend to inform you of all things Notre Dame. We always wonder what it is we’ll write next that resonates with a lot of people. Because of you, we’ve had pieces make rounds all over the internet, and that gives us great pride and gratification.

Wherever you are, stay safe as we celebrate a holiday season none of us has experienced before. We want 2021 to be a year in which you continue to come back here. More importantly, we want it to be a year in which we’re able to keep doing things we love and get back at least some of what we had in 2019. Until then, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!