World Cup 2026 Surge Playbook

Produce a single-restaurant or multi-unit operator's end-to-end preparation plan for the FIFA World Cup 2026 (June 11 – July 19, 2026, 16 host cities across the United States, Canada, and Mexico) — a six-and-a-half-week sustained surge event that compresses a year's worth of mega-event prep into eight weekends. Covers the match-window and host-city impact map, the surge staffing plan with multilingual hiring and training, the match-day bundle and themed-menu programming, the watch-party programming that turns any room with a TV outside the host cities into a destination, the multilingual operations layer (menu, kiosk, POS prompts, signage, staff scripts, allergen and dietary disclosures), the international payment and tipping transparency posture (service charge disclosure aligned to the Florida July 1 service-charge transparency law, the Colorado pricing-transparency rule already in force, and FTC-compliant auto-gratuity language for international guests), the AI-driven match-day demand forecast that ingests external signals (KAYAK Ask AI flight searches, RateGain FIFA World Cup 2026 Market Pulse Dashboard, Sojern host-city booking pacing, hotel-occupancy feeds, public Fan Fest schedules), the supply-chain stress test, the reservation and walk-in surge management plan, the after-tournament wind-down plan, and the risk register. Produces an eight-week countdown plan a GM can paste into the calendar today and a tournament-day operating rhythm a multi-unit COO can publish to district managers.