Posted on 09/24/2021 10:48:45 AM PDT by Vendome
At Schroeder's, the hofbrau and beer hall in San Francisco's Financial District, the typical lunch crowd mostly consists of office workers on lunch breaks, and the evening crowd usually consists of the same workers in search of post-work drinks.
"We finally reopened in June when the [COVID] numbers looked good and when we looked at return-to-office plans for Salesforce and other companies," Chun said. "In July, things picked up, but then delta hit, plans got delayed and August was just a disaster."
"We reopened at the end of July, and it's cost us $30,000 just to be open in that time," said Leilani Mason, the owner and operator of Southside Spirit House, a SoMa bar that often serves Salesforce, LinkedIn and Yelp employees. "We heavily depend on the happy hour crowd, that’s our bread and butter. But a week after we reopened, the city said, 'Just kidding, the pandemic isn't over even if you're vaccinated and we all need to wear masks,' and then offices pushed back their reopening plans. We have no customers at happy hours, and we're having our staff come in but there's no one for them to serve."
In response to the uptick, San Francisco and seven other Bay Area counties imposed an indoor mask mandate in early August that applied to all residents, regardless of vaccination status.
But for the Financial District's offices, people don’t want to come into an office if they have to mask up for 10 hours, especially if they're vaccinated. People are not coming back until that's removed, and we won’t have customers until it's removed. There is definitely a financial cost."
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"As long as employees are required to be masked all day, companies will say there's no reason to come back," said Simi Grewal, co-founder of DECANTsf, a SoMa wine bar. "As soon as the mask mandate came back, our business dropped off and there's been no sense of urgency now that things are getting better. I'm not opposed to a mask mandate if it's needed to slow the spread, but it's affecting how businesses operate because we don’t have customers around."
Jaime Hiraishi, the owner of Wine Down, another SoMa wine bar, believes that the economic impacts of delayed return-to-office plans will extend beyond just restaurants and bars.
"People will go out of business if offices don’t open soon," she said. "That will have a big effect on the city and what it looks like when tourists come in and are looking for things to do. This impacts not just us but San Francisco as a whole, and that's something we need to be thinking about."
However, on the topic of the office mask mandate and the general idea that there's little-to-no costs to mask mandates, the group was less supportive.
"I absolutely disagree with the idea mask mandates have no cost," Mason said. "There’s a huge cost to mask mandates and we're seeing how the office one is destroying businesses in the Financial District for sure. It’s hurting me, it's hurting my workers, it has costs."
Maybe they’ll get so tired of being controlled by stupid libtards who care nothing about them they’ll stop voting for them?!
Sounds like they don’t like the bed they made does it?
The vaxxes have failed to make people immune to the virus.
They have failed to prevent people from spreading the virus to others.
So much for “science”.
This is what they voted for. Let them stew in it.
Currently, one of the Warriors, Andrew Wiggins (starting small forward), has refused to get the COVID vaccine. If he continues with that stance and SF holds firm with their ordinance, Wiggins will not be able to play in the half of the Warriors games when they're at home in SF (Chase Center).
PS Larry Elder would have helped you but no you wanted more of the same old CRAP. Enjoy the smell.
I have a friend who went with his family to eat in San Francisco. They were all fully vaccinated for 6 months, but they had to leave SF to eat. Whatever proof they had of their being vaccinated wasn’t enough.
Love those photos!
One of my son’s friends works for a medium-sized engineering firm - everyone was sent home in March 2021 and the office hasn’t opened since.
Owner of the firm just sold the building, saw no need to keep paying the mortgage on it.
Son said his firm is thinking of doing the same thing. His colleagues live all over the U.S., many of whom he’s never met in person.
The tradeoff is San Fran is now doing a booming business in feces and used needles.
I currently work for a startup Tech company. We have no office, just a P.O. Box. 30 of us coast to coast working from home.
SF is a commuter city. Most people who work there don’t live there and hence don’t vote there
It is why Pelosi will represent her district until Jesus returns
Being that you know nothing of SF voting you best just move along
Delta was a gimmick and the vaxx is a super spreader. We are living a lie and political game.
The “Thank you sir may I have another” crowd will never learn.
Yes I have a lunch planned next week and we chose a restaurant in neighboring San Mateo County. Sf restaurants will continue to lose business until the tyrants in charge lighten up.
All democrat taliban voters in california deserve their government. I trust they suffer greatly.
Until the Business owners make the connection between the Nazis controlling them and their failing businesses, I suspect that their businesses will continue to fail.
Amen! and Hoot Hoot, you feeble-minded morons.
Collapse for New Sodom can’t come quickly enough.
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