A lot of this depends upon your view of the Lord's Day. Personally, I think you could open after lunch on Sundays with a clear conscience given some positions on the question. Other positions such as the Puritan ones on this board would set apart an entire day, and in those views it wouldn't be licit for you to exericse on Sunday, much less require your employees to enable the exercise of others.

Another wrinkle, though, is that if you're a franchisee, the parent company may not allow you to be closed on Sundays. Definitely check on that issue before you assume you'll have liberty to make a decision on this issue in the first place.

I think this is a hard issue, and that you're getting some good Puritan advice above. But you've got to sort out the arguments though and decide whether you think the Puritans are right on this issue. If you had a hotel or a restaurant, historically the questions would be much different. You've got to apply the normative standards to the situation at hand and further you have to ask how behaving one way or the other will affect your character (normative, situational, existential perspectives).

I think, at the very least, that unless you need to serve people breakfast, that having a later opening time on Sundays would be in order for most business. Even the most minimalist approaches to the Lord's Day don't exempt the believer from attending corporate worship and, in the case of employers, you are answerable to God for forcing someone to work rather than attend church.

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Jonathan Barlow
Under Care, Missouri Presbytery, PCA
Grad Student, St. Louis University
From Picayune, MS, now a St. Louisan