SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The Golden Gate Restaurant Association this week sent a survey to restaurant owners in San Francisco asking if they plan to continue checking for evidence of the coronavirus vaccine for entry. Last Friday, San Francisco lifted the mandate requiring businesses to verify proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test. RELATED: […]
After a slowdown due to the omicron coronavirus outbreak, restaurant reservations in San Francisco are starting to rebound despite still-high case rates. Reservations are still down 63% on average from pre-pandemic levels in 2019, but OpenTable data shows an 8 percentage point increase in reservations from January 12, 2021 to January 20. Additionally, the percentage […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) – Across the Bay Area and across the country, restaurants have been hit especially hard by omicron. Between staff testing positive or being exposed, many restaurants had to close because they didn’t have enough bodies to run the place. Doctors have said that being vaccinated and strengthened can really make a […]
The majority of parklets in San Francisco — up to 90% — could be demolished in the coming weeks, thanks to more than 60 pages of new rules and regulations approved after the vote that made the Shared Spaces program permanent in July. The estimate comes from Laurie Thomas, executive director of the Golden Gate […]
A sample of the cuisine at The Bird, a fried chicken sandwich restaurant in Adriano Paganini’s Back of the House group of restaurants. As Total Food Service continues its review of the state of the restaurant industry in key cities across the country post-pandemic, we are focusing on San Francisco. The city that brought us […]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — It’s pandemic deja vu for restaurants in San Francisco forced to close amid the latest spike in coronavirus cases. Tosca in North Beach partially reopened on Friday. After a staff member was exposed to COVID-19, the restaurant closed for a few days to get everyone tested. RELATED: Hundreds of SF bars […]
Editor’s note, Dec. 4, 2020, 3:20 p.m.: Officials from five Bay Area counties and the city of Berkeley made the decision on Friday to enact the stay-at-home order beginning Dec. 6. . All of the interviews for this article took place prior to the announcement and were written speculating on when the order would occur. […]
It could soon be hibernation season for restaurants in San Francisco. With indoor dining once again banned and wintry weather reducing income from outdoor dining, a growing number of restaurants in the city are considering, for the first time, the more drastic step of possible closure for the coming months. Others are considering closing for […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) — City of San Francisco officials are hinting at more possible rollback announcements in the coming days as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to rise. Although outdoor dining is still permitted under the state’s current purple level guidelines, many restaurants are preparing for the possibility of suspending outdoor dining. There’s no […]
In a Bay Area dining world still adjusting to the coronavirus pandemic, restaurants in San Francisco resumed indoor service on Wednesday with temperature checks, strict food enforcement policies masks and multi-question health surveys. The moment is a small step towards normality for restaurants in the city, where thousands of food businesses have struggled to survive […]
It’s hard to get hard numbers on the impact of the pandemic on San Francisco’s restaurant industry. There are voluntary surveys of restaurant owners, of course, and data from delivery apps and review sites on how many places seem to be taking orders (or not) and, in the case of apps, for how much. But […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) — Stay open, hit pause or close it. This is the terrible dilemma facing restaurant and bar owners in San Francisco. The cost of doing business in the city was already high before the pandemic, but a growing number of catering establishments are on the verge of permanent closure. With growing […]
Restaurants in San Francisco, which were given the green light for outdoor dining service last month, learned on Tuesday that they will have to wait indefinitely for indoor dining to return as the number of coronavirus cases in the state increases. Indoor dining was originally scheduled to begin July 13 in San Francisco. Although news […]
Restaurants in San Francisco will be able to offer sit-down dining starting Friday, three days ahead of schedule, marking the city’s latest step in easing current shelter-in-place restrictions. Since mid-March, restaurants in San Francisco can only offer take-out and delivery service to customers. The Mayor of London Breed announced the expansion on Tuesday, on the […]
A new podcast explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on some of San Francisco’s most vulnerable businesses: restaurants. For nearly 15 years, Marcia Gagliardi wrote Tablehopper, an “e-column” about the Bay Area food and beverage industry. Although she did radio spots on KGO (her segment was called “You Gotta Eat This”), she had never […]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Dining out in the Bay Area will likely never be the same. Fifty percent of restaurants in San Francisco are not expected to reopen, according to the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. “Do you think you’ll make it?” “No, I don’t think so,” said Wen Geng, owner of Chinese Cuisine, a popular […]