Tracie Morris, left, and Olelah Mae Morris bring their church bulletins to Carlos O’Kelly’s Mexican Restaurant, 707 W. 23rd St., on Sundays to receive a 10 percent discount.

Lawrence resident Lindsey Morris, 17, dines at Carlos O'Kelly’s Mexican Restaurant, 707 W. 23rd St., after attending services at Indian Avenue Baptist Church.

Sundays often are a day of rest, and Tracie Morris wouldn’t mind taking that idea literally.

But it’s hard to take a break with a family of six under her roof, all hungry after a morning spent at the Indian Avenue Baptist Church, 146 Indian Ave.

“Sundays are a day I don’t like to cook if I don’t have to,” Morris says.

Of course, she doesn’t want to break the bank if she’s doesn’t have to, either. Also no easy feat with a family of six.

But at least a couple of local restaurants have answered both concerns with one solution for church-goers like Morris: a discount.

Carlos O’Kelly’s Mexican Cafe, 707 W. 23rd St., where the Morris clan was eating after a recent church trip, gives a 10 percent discount to patrons who bring in a church bulletin on Sundays.

Across town, church patrons are also getting the royal treatment at Jason’s Deli, 3140 Iowa, where patrons with a church bulletin get a free drink to go with their Sunday meal.

Owner Brian Stevens of the Jason’s Deli says that when the store began offering the promotion about three years ago, it was to bring in a clientele that might be headed other places in town after service.

“It reaches a crowd that may typically go to a breakfast establishment after Sunday service and gives them other options, healthy options,” Stevens says.

Lance Willmann, general manager of Carlos O’Kelly’s, says that while the 10 percent promotion was intended to bring in a different crowd, but it also was designed to reward the customers who had made the restaurant part of their Sunday routine.

“We have a pretty regular crowd on Sundays, they’re pretty loyal to the restaurant. We appreciate them so we just figured we’d give them just a little bit of a discount,” says Willmann, who originated the idea and shared it with the Carlos O’Kelly’s Topeka location. “We were just sitting down, just targeting. I think we targeted Wednesday and Thursday (for) the college kids, and I think we wanted to have like a family day. Tuesday we already had a kids’ special, so we just figured Sunday was just a day we could target a more family-oriented audience.”

The promotion started two years ago, and Gayle Hoopingarner, a hospitality supervisor who oversees the Sunday lunch rush, says that there are indeed groups — big and small, young and old — who are regularly crunching on chips and salsa in their Sunday best.

“We’ve been doing it for a while now, and in the beginning we saw a whole bunch, and then it kind of tapered off a little. But there’s still quite a few people that ask for it,” Hoopingarner says. “There’s a lot of groups that come — they like to go out after church and they all come in a big group, and they all have their bulletins and get their 10 percent discount. It’s everyone really — families, anyone.”

Count the Morris clan as new Sunday regulars. Though they didn’t know about the deal until they walked in, they happily dug into chips and salsa before splitting, among other things, a Fiesta Sampler and keeping Morris’ day as restful as possible. She, of course, is delighted.

“If we get 10 percent off, we could get dessert,” she muses, before redoing the math and amending the family’s possible perk. “Ten percent off — that’s one person’s meal.”