[mattferderer]

Most places I've visited vary from business to business. With all due respect, I don't know of anywhere that fits your 9 & 12 mold. When I travel I always need to look up the hours of businesses. Many also pick a day or two during the week to close or prepare. Many also operate dramatically different depending on the day you go.

[brewdad]

Ok but they do operate at a reasonable approximation. Sure a shop may open at 0800 in one town and not until 1000 in another but are there really places on earth where the shops tend to open at 0100 and close by 0900? Certainly there can't be many.

[Macha]

Spain's lunch/closing times are much later with the day being split in two periods, the second of which is 4:30-9: https://www.google.ie/url?q=http://www.spain.info/en_IE/info...