On Good Friday, 2 April 1999, diners queued at Portuguese restaurants in Curitiba, southern Brazil, for cod dishes. Folha de Londrina reported that many residents chose restaurants over shopping and cooking at home, helped by prices of 18 to 35 reais for a dish serving two. Adega do Marquês issued numbered tickets, although many customers decided not to wait; about 300 people had still passed through by 3 p.m., and the restaurant had stocked 300 kilograms of fish. Another restaurant was full from noon, with seating rather than cod becoming the constraint. This was not a line to buy raw fish. It was a wait for a table and for the labour of maintaining a Good Friday food tradition to be transferred from the household to the restaurant.