Monster has 31 places, of which 13 give opening hours, 42 per cent. Of those, 15 per cent work past eleven, two of the thirteen. A website of their own is held by 52 per cent, and 42 per cent have no online presence.
That last figure is the highest we meet this round: more than four in ten premises cannot be found online at all. We have no explanation. No measurement of digitisation among small businesses exists for the Westland, and without a measurement every explanation is a guess.
The by-law of the Westland governs the outside separately: the terrace must be empty between one and six. Premises that serve only food or soft drinks, down to the vending machine, are shut between two and six. The mayor may also set other hours temporarily.
The beach has its own rules from 2024, and they work in seasons rather than in weeks. Opening hours for beach pavilions are not in them; those simply fall under the general regime. An older by-law, repealed on 25 October 2013, still named spots here one by one: the beach access called Molenslag at Monster, and the address Vlotlaan 535, where the vines stand.
The name surfaces in the archives around 1150 and goes back to a word for parish church. The neighbouring village of Ter Heijde was moved in 1720 because the coast was eating the ground. The Westland grape carries a Dutch regional mark, not a European name. The place has 15,005 inhabitants, of whom 22 per cent are over sixty-five.