'Would any SANE person stay?' Owner of San Francisco restaurant that first opened as breakfast joint in 1953 - and became a staple caterer to downtown tech giants - shuts down shop for good and blames the city for not supporting business owners

Daily Mail UK ^ | June 29, 2023 | Germania Rodriguez Poleo

[Morgana]

The owner of a beloved San Francisco restaurant that opened more than 60 years ago has decided to close shop for good, blaming the city for not supporting business owners amid a homelessness crisis and the aftermath of the pandemic.

HRD Coffee Shop opened its doors in 1953 as a modest establishment serving workers in the city's downtown area - and eventually became a staple caterer to the city's tech giants like software company Salesforce.

The restaurant even appeared on The Food Network several times, with Guy Fieri trying one its famous kimchi burritos.

But Sydney Saidyan, its current owner, told The San Francisco Standard the situation in the city became untenable, and he and his advisers decided to shut down the place back in May.

'I would love to remain in San Francisco as a business. But the question is, would any sane person?' Saidyan told the outlet.

The businessman explained the restaurant suffered great losses during the pandemic shutdown of the city, as they were not even allowed to set up outdoor dining.

According to Saidyan, the business was losing as much as $20,000 every month. Moreover, he said the restaurant's landlord 'did not play the right game with us during the pandemic.'

'At the end, we just couldn't keep the doors open because of the lack of support from the city and the landlord.' Saidyan explained. 'Unfortunately, the city does not see us as a partner.'

[butlerweave]

San Francisco don’t need no stinking tax revenue

[Hieronymus]

I guess neither the editor nor the reporter could do math.

[jjotto]

Oh no!

Where will the next Pork Kimchee Burrito come from?

[dynachrome]

No sympathy if this is her. Category Contributor Occupation Date Amount Recipient Recipient Jurisdiction Money to Parties SAIDYAN, SYDNEY SEATTLE, WA 98136 PRESIDENT & CEO 05-28-2004 $315.00 Washington State Democratic Central Cmte (D) F Money to Parties SAIDYAN, SYDNEY SEATTLE, WA 98136 PRESIDENT & CEO 05-27-2004 $315.00 Washington State Democratic Central Cmte (D) F Money to Candidates SAIDYAN, SYDNEY SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94159 PRESIDENT & CEO 03-05-2008 $250.00 Barack Obama (D) F Money to Candidates SAIDYAN, SYDNEY SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94159 PRESIDENT & CEO 05-16-2008 $250.00 Barack Obama (D) F Money to Candidates SAIDYAN, SYDNEY SEATTLE, WA 98124 PRESIDENT & CEO 05-20-2004 $2,000.00 John Kerry (D) F Money to Candidates SAIDYAN, SYDNEY SEATTLE, WA 98124 08-26-2004 -$1,980.00 John Kerry (D) F Money to Parties SAIDYAN, SYDNEY SEATTLE, WA 98136 PRESIDENT & CEO 05-28-2004 $315.00 WASHINGTON STATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (D) WA Money to Parties SAIDYAN, SYDNEY SEATTLE, WA 98136 PRESIDENT & CEO 05-27-2004 $315.00 WASHINGTON STATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (D) WA Money to Parties SAIDYAN, SYDNEY SEATTLE, WA 98136 06-16-2004 -$315.00 Washington State Democratic Central Cmte (D) F

[packagingguy]

One more accomplishment by the wannabe president Newsom.

[dynachrome]

Sorry for the messed up post. Here is the link:

https://www.opensecrets.org/search?q=Sydney+Saidyan&type=donors

[Morgana]

I’m still confused

[dynachrome]

The link shows it better. Is this a he or a she? I am confused. The Daily mail shows a woman and a nephew?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

“Bottom up, top down, inside out.” - Van Jones (communist)

[Lockbox]

Does the writer not know math? It’s 70 years!

[Bon of Babble]

Many of the tech industries in SF have gone to a work from home model - my daughter and SIL work for two very large tech companies - both have been entirely work from home for three years with no end in sight. They and everyone they know now eat from home as well, so that has cut into the restaurant businesses in SF as well.

There are also large swaths of homeless on the streets making certain areas miserable to go to no matter how much we wish to go to a certain restaurant.

[Morgana]

must be that new common core math

[Noumenon]

Vote stoopid, get lots more stoopid.

[Seruzawa]

DemonRATs are criminally incompetent and ruin everything.

[unixfox]

They should tax the homeless. Problem solved.

[Eagles6]

Math is racist...probably transphobic, too, since xx≠xy./sarc

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[GOPJ]

In a fairly short period of time Tech companies will start moving out too. It’s hard to attract the best talent to to the primer democrat hellhole city.

[Max in Utah]

“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good” -Thomas Sowell