As Ohio State students took spring quarter finals and prepared themselves and their belongings to depart campus for the summer, local businesses prepared for the drop in sales that summer quarter would bring them.

The local eateries near campus have come to expect this rapid decline in sales at the onset of the summer exodus of students, managers from High Street eateries said.

“I think that every business on High Street experiences the same kind of decline,” said Lucas Smelser, district manager of Pita Pit. “We lose probably half the sales (of the other three quarters), but we really try to make up for it and push hard during the school year.”

William Kinsley, manager at both High Street Jimmy John’s locations, said he agrees that the average daily sales are halved during summer quarter. “On a normal day, we do about $1,200 of business,” Kinsley said. “The past few days it has been about $600.”

He also said that this loss of business is the same across the board for Jimmy John restaurants near other campuses.

Though this loss is anticipated, the eateries do not push any deals or price changes in order to make up for the loss.

Attmad Pruitt, general manager of Panini’s Bar and Grill, said there is a 40 percent decline for his business and that orders for summer supplies are reduced accordingly, but the bar does not make any extra efforts during the summer to change this.

“Ohio State is a football school,” Pruitt said, “so we are always much busier in the fall and we rely on that to help us (make up for the lack of sales in summer).”

Smelser said he feels that the same is true for Pita Pit. When students come back from summer break, business picks up, he said.

Smelser said that sales wane during the summer and pick up during the other three quarters at the same times and by the same general monetary amount every year, creating a well expected cycle of business.

Regardless of the time of year, Smelser said, “we stay open the same amount of hours and days.”

Urban Outfitters and Wendy’s would not give comment about their summer sales, because of company policy, they said.