On what should be one of his busiest days of the year, Yuksel Yucetepe expects to lose $35,000. 

The part owner and general manager of Collins Quarter, a restaurant and bar in the Paris end of Collins Street in Melbourne, says the state government's decision to make the Friday before the AFL Grand Final a public holiday means the city will be empty.

But Mr Yucetepe must pay penalty rates to staff, which will take more than six weeks to recover, and to add insult to injury, the city has moved the traditional grand final parade so it no longer passes his establishment.

"The implications are huge," Mr Yucetepe said.

He said he would open but only because several bookings had been taken before the holiday was announced.

But instead 35 staff members who usually worked on a Friday, there would only be eight.

"A lot of people didn't get the hours they need this week," Mr Yucetepe said.

NO CASUAL WORKERS

Mr Yucetepe said there was a lot of anger about the public holiday, not just from small business owners like him, but also office workers.

The venue is a favourite haunt for many businessmen and women, especially on Friday night when investment bankers from 101 Collins Street, flock across the road for a drink.

"There's a lot of anger from our customers, some have to work still because the stock market is still open," he says.

Furthermore, this year the route of the grand final parade has been changed because of the public holiday. It will bypass Collins Quarter and run from Spring Street to the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

"The whole thing doesn't make sense," Mr Yucetepe says.

"But I don't know what you do. It's going to be like this for years to come."