Louis' Restaurant in San Francisco gets new lease

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | October 19, 2010 | Peter Fimrite

[artichokegrower]

The family that has run a beloved old-style diner on the western edge of San Francisco for seven decades will get to keep the restaurant, but will have to jettison many of its old ways.

The Hontalas family, whose sweat over 73 years made Louis' Restaurant a city landmark, beat out three other bidders for a new 10-year lease on the property, according to the National Park Service, which owns the land.

[artichokegrower]

This story is disturbing on many levels but what really gets me is that in time of budget deficits we have government workers tasked with determining what appropriate for a restaurant to have on its menu.

"The new lease will also require Louis' to offer locally produced, sustainable food, including grass fed beef and organic produce"

Give me a break. Please close down the Federal Office of Menu Reviews.

[Question Liberal Authority]

The Hontalas family, whose sweat over 73 years made Louis' Restaurant a city landmark

SWEAT??? YUCK! They told me it was 'secret sauce'!

[mojito]

Well, gee, isn’t that swell?

The family gets to keep the restaurant, but they can’t serve ham and eggs anymore because bureaucrats have decided that ham and eggs are bad...I mean, unsustainable.

So they have to completely change the restaurant and up the prices: just the kind of thing that drives restaurants out of business.

[artichokegrower]

Maybe they will get some stimulus money so they can remain open.

[Rebelbase]

Why can’t they offer their old menu with a side menu of the new “healthy” stuff at ridiculous prices and only keep a small stock of it on hand?

[bootless]

Oh good grief. I’ve eaten there many times when I lived in San Francisco, and its ham-and-eggs character is part of who they are.

Oh, and that free choice thing. How Chavezesque of the GGNRA.

[CdMGuy]

I would have told the Feds to stick it where the sun don’t shine, not bid for a new lease, and then find a suitable new location as close as possible. It is past time for Americans to start pushing back against government at all levels.

[Rodamala]

A friend’s girlfriend’s father runs a restaurant out on a pier in the Myrtle Beach, SC vicinity. When the municipality decided to gouge him with outrageous new lease terms, he told them in so many words to pound sand... The business will close and be relocated to a different municipality.