{"id":1754033,"date":"2022-11-28T15:48:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754033"},"modified":"2022-11-28T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:48:55","slug":"san-francisco-restaurants-closing-in-droves-restaurant-assn-wants-city-to-subsidize-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-restaurants-closing-in-droves-restaurant-assn-wants-city-to-subsidize-them\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Restaurants Closing In Droves. Restaurant Assn. Wants City To Subsidize Them."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-francisco-restaurants-closing-in-droves-restaurant-assn-wants-city-to-subsidize-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754033&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Downtown San Francisco restaurants and have been hit so hard by the COVID pandemic and its aftermath, where people work remotely instead of traveling to the city, that restaurants are crying out to the local government to subsidize them.<\/p>\n<p>Laurie Thomas, executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, suggested that the city subsidize restaurants for as long as 12 to 18 months to keep them solvent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s dealing with the operating expenses for a certain period of time, so they don\u2019t have to make money for that period,\u201d she \u00a0asserted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/A-shuttered-pizza-restaurant-demonstrates-17614635.php?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=briefing&#038;utm_campaign=sfc_baybriefing_am&#038;sid=54dd212c3b35d005218bb6e2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>. \u201cAnd then maybe you\u2019re going to incentivize some people to come in and take a chance\u201d to open a business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know this is expensive, don\u2019t get me wrong. I don\u2019t know where we get the money,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The city has already doled out over $83 million to small business, whether by grant, loan or a tax break.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are bigger economic forces at play that are keeping people from our core and downtown than the lack of restaurants \u2014 one of them being the lack of foot traffic because of hybrid work schedules,\u201d Gloria Chan, spokesperson for the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, stated. \u201cSubsidies going directly to property owners for new restaurants is a massive financial undertaking and likely not feasible without federal or state funding in addition to requiring significant resources and investments from the businesses themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas cited the 2011 tax break that enticed Twitter and other tech companies to move to the area.<\/p>\n<p>The list of restaurants closing in the Bay Area in October <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/restaurants\/article\/mikkeller-restaurant-closures-17547688.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">included<\/a> the Mikkeller Bar in the Tenderloin area, Padrecito, the Soon and Soon Souvenir Shop, Fatted Calf, Bonchon, Holder\u2019s House, Hotline, the Berkeley Bagel Street Caf\u00e9, Augie\u2019s Montreal Deli, Pastis, Broken Record, Campo Fina, A Taste of Denmark, Tribune Tribune, Caf\u00e9 Lane 33, and the Kebabery.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/restaurants\/article\/september-restaurant-closures-17473667.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list included<\/a> Maru Ichi, Seven Stills, El Charro 1947, Chica, The Grove, Alchemy Collective, Zazzi Foods, Smitten Ice Cream, Big 4, Roosevelt Tamale Parlor, Double Play Bar &#038; Grill,\u00a0and the Sesame Tiny Bakery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of us hoped that the return to office would happen, but it didn\u2019t. So we can\u2019t just kind of hope, now, that these areas just organically create themselves,\u201d Thomas concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown San Francisco restaurants and have been hit so hard by the COVID pandemic and its aftermath, where people work remotely instead of traveling to the city, that restaurants are crying out to the local government to subsidize them. Laurie Thomas, executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, suggested that the city subsidize restaurants &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1754036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}