Jim Conrad

The Superbowl: the biggest game of the year, the biggest television audience of the year and for some restaurants, their biggest day of the year.

What's on the Super Bowl menu? For lots of folks the answer is ordering takeout, and one of the hottest items, no pun intended, is hot wings. Another favorite is pizza.

Many local restaurants have been getting ready for the big game for some time now. "I have bought 25 cases of wings at 40 pounds each and we always cook them ahead, not all the way so that when we drop them into the fryers you do not get raw wings. They come out fine and fresh," said C.C. Kline, owner of Wing Doctor in Bristol.

If you do the math, that's a thousand pounds of chicken wings and as for pizza take out, it truly called a holiday.

"Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest pizza holiday of the year. It's bigger than any of our other holidays. Last year we actually set our sales record for this location and hope to do so again this year," said Fannon Thomas, a Papa John's manager.

"It's our biggest day. Rhythm and Roots used to be probably our second best weekend but there's so many vendors down there now so they don't wander off so much. Super Bowl takes it," Kline of the Wing Doctor added.

A great sales day, but that means the busiest too. "As fast as we can load them and as fast as we can cut them," Thomas says.

"There are about five of us back there in the back boxing and they'll be a line around, hopefully, around the restaurant and serving as fast as we can," Says Kline.

And that means it's all hands on deck for employees.

"Everybody is required to work Super Bowl Sunday. It's just like with it being the biggest day of the year. When you hire people you hire them with the understanding that this is a day we all work," Thomas said.

They'll be so busy, they'll have to watch the highlights and never see the game.