Sign problems

The word `Tonight´on our big sign has caused problems.
When we went on vacation we tried to tell every body that we are going to be off for 9 days.
We blogged about it on the websites and Clas wrote the date 27.4 on a paper that he sticked over the word `tonight´ on our big sign, which is hanging high up on a pole on the terrace of Lewinski.
The smaller sign with the light bulbs inside we carried home to be sure it will not be placed outside.
We didn't like people to believe that we are there when we are on vacation. And we tried to inform about which day we will be back.
Now we have got complaints from some guests when the big sign said `tonight´while we were gone.
They had seen the sign in the daytime and believed we are going to play in the night and decided to come and see us. When they got outside the restaurant in the night they discovered we weren't there.

The problem is that Lewinski is empty in the nights when we are off. This has made somebody at the restaurant to take away the date sign of 27.4 after we left, hoping to get somebody in.
We don't like to fool the guests and beg pardon for the miss understanding this has caused.
Of course people feel fooled when they have walked the whole way to the restaurant to finally figure out we are not there.
This has been a problem before when the staff hanged out our sign even on Saturdays, when it was our day off.
About one year ago a couple went into the restaurant one night, and got a table and ordered a big pot of sangria, waiting for us to come there and play. They waited and waited and finally they got to know it's our day off.
I wonder if they were sitting there the whole night drinking sangria or if they left it and went out.
Different cultures have different ways of doing business. That's something we have learned here on Tenerife where you can find a lot of cultures.

Next time we go on vacation we will definitely take down the sign and maybe we need to lock it with a chain inside the restaurant so the tourists don't get deceived while we are gone.