diff --git a/examples/local/205_clean_commerce.sh b/examples/local/205_clean_commerce.sh
index f01fa2429af..6fe9350e8ae 100755
--- a/examples/local/205_clean_commerce.sh
+++ b/examples/local/205_clean_commerce.sh
@@ -22,4 +22,5 @@ source ./env.sh
 vtctlclient SetShardTabletControl -blacklisted_tables=customer,corder -remove commerce/0 rdonly
 vtctlclient SetShardTabletControl -blacklisted_tables=customer,corder -remove commerce/0 replica
 vtctlclient SetShardTabletControl -blacklisted_tables=customer,corder -remove commerce/0 master
+vtctlclient ApplySchema -sql-file drop_commerce_tables.sql commerce
 vtctlclient ApplyRoutingRules -rules='{}'
diff --git a/test/local_example.sh b/test/local_example.sh
index e6a06d62c94..43ca3d0e6e8 100755
--- a/test/local_example.sh
+++ b/test/local_example.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ source ./env.sh # Required so that "mysql" works from alias
 
 ./101_initial_cluster.sh
 
-sleep 1 # Give vtgate a second to really start.
+sleep 5 # Give vtgate time to really start.
 
 mysql < ../common/insert_commerce_data.sql
 mysql --table < ../common/select_commerce_data.sql