This will be the first full football season that Ohioans will be able to take part in sports betting and restaurants and bars will likely benefit from it. The Winking Lizard Tavern, with several locations around Ohio, is among them.
Angelique Bull, the assistant manager of the Independence restaurant, said they added sports betting kiosks into their restaurant more six months ago, but she said it hasn’t necessarily translated to their bottom line.
“Sports betting is very popular, however, it’s not a lot of people getting up going to the physical kiosk. It’s a lot of people on their phones doing it instead,” she said.
