Popular San Francisco restaurant closing due to lack of downtown foot traffic
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- čas přidán 24. 09. 2023
- Barbacco, another one of downtown San Francisco's long-time restaurants, is closing its doors at the end of the week. Businesses in the Financial District and across the city have been hit hard by the loss of office workers. STORY: abc7ne.ws/464Y1QX
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Stop blaming just the office workers not being there. People in the bay area don't feel safe to go to SF. Bay area has a lot of money and if SF is safe people will go there to spend money. Why are people missing the obvious? Make SF safe and clean and money will go back. SF leadership really love their homeless, drug users, criminals more than anything else. Smh
SF's "leaders" will continue doing everything possible EXCEPT the right thing: laws must be enforced [uniformly and consistently] to make SF safe and clean. This is never going to happen as long as "progressives" are in charge.
Without public safety, nothing else matters.
This is why the issue will never be resolved. Looking at this from a business perspective this makes no sense and seems like a deliberate plan to purge the city. Everyone know crime is the issue, yet none of these cities failing are focused on it.
they're not missing the obvious, they are just too embarrassed or shackled by PC guilt they can't admit it
Yup, everyone knows this. The politicians don’t want to take the blame.
They do love their crime and chaos.
Who wants to get their windows smashed while eating
I STOPPED going to San Francisco about 6 years ago due to crime, and filth. 🤷🏼♂️🤔🤷🏼♂️🤔
Same, not to mention the high cost of parking, tolls all for the privilege of having to dodge the outdoor asylum patients and crackheads
Yep. In 2017, five very big stronger crack addicts came up to me and demanded my company laptop. I pulled some money out of my pocket and tossed it in the air. I ran. Never again! I have family there. My family has been there since 1896. I don't know how my cousins can stand it.
@erikh9991 and that is exactly what anyone should do in that kind of situation. 😊
Me too.
I used to come here 3 times a year, to shop , to enjoy the view , the food , the scenery !!!!
The farmers in the GOP voted for that Prop 47 ...Thts really Fok up the state !
No one with common sense goes to San Francisco ‼️
No one with common sense lives there, too.
'Employers have to put their foot down so he can be assured of business'. No, I'd rather continue to work at home or be a digital nomad in Bali or Thailand. I'm not sitting in 2 hours of traffic, dodging homeless drug addicts and crime in this filthy city. No way I'm coming into the office ever again
Yeah you should just stay in your home country. Can you not see we are over ran with people like you as well?
Xsactly
let the Big One hit SF, then we can have an even level playing field
Yeah, lost me with that statement. Force people to be there who obviously don’t want to be there. That obviously hasn’t worked because it can’t work.
Instead of blaming lack of people,how about call out the politicians that are running the city into the ground.
Don’t blame the politicians. The people knowingly voted for those policies.
@@db-rc5frhow do you know how he voted? Are you family !
@@brucebouck6152 Did I say that I knew how he voted? We certainly know what the people there voted for.
@@db-rc5fr maybe he didn't vot e for them? Hence that's why he's blaming them! I didn't vote for the piece of shit Demoncraps but their in charge they get the blame pretty simple isn't it🤔
SF is a shyte city now. Obviously the Mayor doesn't seem to care, as long as she collects a paycheck. I never invite friends and family for weekends anymore. SF is an embarrassment
From the Bay born and raised, used to love downtown growing up. These days I won’t even touch it, I avoid it period when I visit family, don’t even get off the interstate. I moved to Florida in 2008 to start my own independent career and it was the best thing I ever did for my life. I return to SF to visit family. SF City supports criminals, calls YOU a criminal if you defend yourself, homeless everywhere, no law enforcement support, outrageous costs, unsafe, hell even this news station’s own reporter Dan Noyes was just attacked. The entire country looks at SF poorly. San Francisco needs Batman because SF is America’s Gotham
I live about 1.5 hours away. I love SF restaurants, not any more. SF needs a good purge.
It's the Communist agenda, destroy it, and buy it up on the cheap.
What part of FL? I'm still out here but plan to get out within 2 years or less.
@@MisterCee41510 Just north of Kennedy Space Center, New Smyrna Beach. I work out there as a photojournalist covering NASA, SpaceX etc. Sure I miss a lot about CA especially the outdoors & drier weather. But the cons are off the charts, I’ve never regretted leaving and my money goes further here, my quality of living is much better. Obviously nowhere is perfect, Florida has a lot of issues too, housing costs are rising due to less supply and everyone is moving here now. Winter here is perfect, Nov - March I’d rather be nowhere else. April - Oct is really humid and hot, but unlike Texas we at least get daily storms to cool off. No state income tax is nice, and policies more supportive of starting a business. I know defense contractors who moved their HQ from CA to FL. I won’t be in Florida forever the summer heat is a bit much for me I’ve never gotten used to it. If I could afford it I’d have a house here for winter and live somewhere else for summer.
I have several friends who live in St Pete, all ages, and they all tell me they absolutely love it there. They are all from out of state. Three off the top of my head are from Southern CA, Wisconsin and Ohio.
South FL is another story, it’s too hot and there’s way too many people, lot of crime, & it’s expensive.
@QueerdoLoc absolutely not, if you try to rob me, attack me in any way, break in my home etc, I have all the right to shoot you dead. The authorities and community will shake your hand for it. And when a hurricane hits, the communities protect each other, looters are asking for a death sentence. Again nowhere is perfect, but the law is on our side, not on the criminal’s side. It’s safe to assume half of any neighborhood is armed.
Nobody wants to walk in a dangerous filthy zombie City
@@Bluecatwing 🤣🤣
or spend 100 dollars a meal
Perhaps it is the HIGH CRIME that no one is willing to dine in the downtown area - CITY officials, WAKE UP!
Don’t blame it on the office workers. It’s because public safety. Homeless and criminals are taking over downtown San Francisco
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It's happened in other cities too. Both blue and red, and even suburban office parks. Less office workers are going to the office, and companies are not renewing leases because of this. It's the major reason. Look around. It's the same with shopping malls. People don't go to them. Malls have shut down in every state. There are CZcams channels documenting this.
If you are in SF and if you are an expensive restaurant ....expecting to be profitable . ....you need to wake up
Tell that to the restaurants in north beach and pacific heights, it's a downtown problem
Especially when they serve 40 dollar plates that doesn't fill up a child.
Pretty sure many many up scale restaurants have been riding the San Francisco gold rush for years. Of course eventually it has to end? When a city or state transforms itself to enhance the tech property gold rush forcing normal everyday citizens out 1 house and street at a time. What did the expect would happen. We watched it happen over 35 years.
$104,000 is now consider "low income" in San Francisco. This is according to a HUD report 2 months ago, but I don't see any media talking about it. Up $22,000 in just 1 year. The cost of living is strangling the middle class in SF, we can't afford to eat out, especially when restaurants have had to raise prices by 20% or more. And the middle class drives your economy. I don't see this getting any better, as one small business after another gets decimated by a lack of customers that can afford their prices.
Yeah they manage to defy the lack of demand in SF by raising regulations on everyone making it more expensive to live there.
And now PG&E wants to raise rates by a whopping 26%!!! Contact the CPUC & say NO!!!
Does middle class even exist anymore?
Who’s fault is that? You betcha
Everybody is affected by ineffective enforcement of the laws. When you disarm the public and tell criminals that they can steal up to 950 dollars worth of merchandise and get off with a slap on the wrist you are setting things up for a dream world for criminals. Start putting these scumbags in a prison like they're doing in El Salvador and how much crime do you think we would see??? Spare the rod and spoil the child. It's one of the oldest sayings in existence but it still applies.
If you look a bit deeper you might come to notice that law enforcement and punishment has their role in civil society, but the roots of what is happening the natural end state of capitalism. Where the wealthy can influence the laws and rules and and simply get richer and richer while more and more folks end up on the streets or in jobs that don't pay a living wage. You can have all the cops and jails you want but we are watching the end stage of our social order--retreat into fundamentalist religions, the fear of people different from us, believing conspiracy theories, supporting crazy sociopathic leaders. Welcome to Amerika.
You can certainly thank Nancy Pelosi for the San Francisco decline.
the public is not "disarmed", shit-for-brains.
How did this turn into a work from home hit piece? We all know what the real problem is.
democraps
The reason is the homeless!
Druggies
@@db-rc5fr Yes, the homeless are usually druggies or alcoholics. They are not working people. I have been saying this for three years!
San Francisco is over. It was so great in the early 2010’s.
Gavin Newsome for President!! Let's embrace this remarkable success all across the USA!!
Newsom
The GQP tried recalling Governor Newsome. How did that turn out? California should sue the people that led the recall effort. Did anyone seriously believe it would succeed?
You know he’s not the mayor of SF anymore? It’s London Breed. And she’s doing a terrible job.
@@corneliusdinkmeyer2190 Yes I know both the names of both the mayor of San Francisco and California’s governor. Do you?
You misspelled Gaysome
It would help if more people in SF moderated their politics, but that won't happen. People in Chicago during their mayoralty election earlier this year went even further left, & I don't think a majority of voters in SF are less dogmatic. C'est la vie.
"it is a casual Italian restaurant focuses on food, wine, and service". No way. That sound so unique for a restaurant's focuses. You can't hire more intelligent "news" script writer and talking head "news presenter".
It is not just lack of foot traffic, but lack of car traffic that brought about its closing. It does not take a social study major to figure out what are the causes of people not wanting to risk their limbs or lives to dine out in SF.
They over charge.70 dollar meal of 4 pieces of steak and some salad...
And not to mention it's right next door to the oldest restaurant in the city, Tadich Grill. I've got a choice, I'm going to Tadich!!!!!!! 👍
Affordability and safety.
Soft on crime has effected the entire city. Wait till you calculate the lack of tourism numbers..
SF native here, it’s the crime and filth. Why would I chance it bringing my family to the city to eat out. Many cars get broken into and the streets are filthy and unsafe with homeless people. I’ve know a couple of family friends who’ve been assaulted.
I used to shop every other weekend on haight Street. SF is a shell of what used to be a vibrant city. Make it safe and clean. Please 🙏🏽
never, SF is done with, now Wait for the Big One to hit and we can start all over again
Used to go to SF to dine out/shop on the average once a month from North Bay. Now I only go to SF is to see my dentist once a year.
When he retires, no more visits to SF for me.
They need to get rid of the mayor of SF she terrible
She's not the problem. She's just a puppet.
@@45876 That makes her a problem but not the only one ☮️❤️✨
Employers like folks to work from home. Cheaper. Just a fact.
Imagine. If you actually locked the rhieves up...STOP VOTING DEM IF YOU WANT THIS TO CHANGE!
Sad that the city officials ruined what was once a beautiful city w/touist. Now i say tourist stay away unless you like your windows broke and stuuf gone😮
Man, it's sad watching the city burn. By 2030 it will be completely lost to the drug zombies, homeless and thugs. Anyone with real estate missed their opportunity to get out if they didn't. They're stuck in the hell hole now.
get out while they can even when Trump is elected
same with Austin Tx.
@@user-uo4rf4ez8c Really? It's bad too? Although I'm not really shocked. Most big cities are probably encountering the same fate only not on the same timeline as SF.
It only going to get worse until the people say no more democrats. They need a government that thinks the complete opposite of what these idiots did to the city.
Oh, it would not be able to reverse course overnight, either.
I still remember the Governator era, that was the good old time
There office workers aren't in downtown SF anymore because big companies realize that the streets are too unsafe for them. Companies have a level of responsibility to make sure that their employees are not put in danger. As for the remote-work reasoning for less foot traffic, commercial realtors know that office space occupancy is doing fine in safer cities. And small businesses and restaurants are also finding better areas to operate. Just ask the owner of Le Cheval in Oakland.
le cheval in oakland recently closed due to high crime and less protection from criminals
San Francisco is done. It will never recover.
Vote GOP and set yourself, family, friends, community, State, and America free 🇺🇸
@@funfact8660 The "Trump faction" within the GOP is calling the shots, which makes it (the GOP) just as destructive as the "progressive" faction within the Democratic party. Both of these groups are extremists. And, as long as RCV (Ranked Choice Voting) continues to be the method by which SF voters elect their "leaders", the city will continue to decline.
SF, and America itself is doomed.
We need a WNBA expansion team.
Vote blue if you haven't got a Clue!
People can’t imagine how bad this will get. Doom loop is the p.c. term for death spiral. You’ve been conquered by thugs and thieves..just like Oakland, you refuse to see it!
Lack of tourism?
kinda. but that specific area isnt known for tourists. its known for successful office type business and that means its usually locals going into those restaurants. the news clip even said theres tons of office workers no longer employed in that area and its the main reason theres less foot traffic on those streets.
I need to go the downtown physically for work. I would avoid staying in downtown area as much as possible because it is dangerous and dirty. Mental homeless and drug addicts and smell of weed mixed with urine and human wastes make SF looks really bad. It is a terrible experience to commute and work.
"smell of weed" - That's very true.
Havent visited the city since buying a new car a few years ago.
What do you mean the homeless people can’t dine out at that place? lol - this is what happens with liberal policies. Have fun San Fran
Soon, people will be driving on freeway 101 pointing at the deserted ghost town on the west side by the bay and say: "That used to be San Francisco".
Barbacco is a restaurant that catered to the banking crowd. SF lost that crowd with the advent of computerized trading floors. SF also lost the high tech crowd with the raising of interest rates by the Federal Reserve Board and the loss of cheap money and venture capital. Finally, near zero interest rates fueled commercial property speculation that was unsustainable. Bidding wars resulted in sky high valuations which required sky high rents. It all came crashing down with the economy turning.
The homeless don't have the economic clout to cause a recession.
Lies. It’s crime that’s keeping foots low.
Refuse to admit the problem so it’ll never get fixed
The saddest part is that you will still vote left.
You must crack down on homelessness and crime with a heavy hand or your city will continue to die.
You get what you vote for.
San Francisco is near collapse because of its Recreation and Parks Department first. The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department is the biggest drive of San Francisco to doom. San Francisco is going to get worst because of the increasing number of unwelcoming and aggressive "public" park security guards who are more concerned with trying to ask for identification to issue citations than dealing with the rampant vehicle burglaries. These ridiculous clowns in green uniforms with batons try to act like cops when they are Not cops. Sooner or later, these wannabe cops is going to cause injuries and fatalies to innocent people.They are managing the "public" parks like private property. On public streets, they try to chase down people for parking violations.
Critical reform is needed to make these less like cops in terms of their vehicles, equipment, badges, uniform colors, so the public and cops can distinguish them as civilian employees.
Amend their job tile to one that is appropriate for their job duties like park monitor or park service ambassador.
Change their uniform color from the full olive green color to the light blue shirt color like the parking enforcement personnel. Also switch their star shaped bage to the more circular shaped or oval shaped like the parking enforcement personnel.
Currently, they have police scanners inside their vehicles, so they go show up to the police calls and interfere with the first responders on scene. So take out the police scanners from their vehicles.
Modify their emblem on their vehicle doors to the city seal like all other city vehicles.
Modify their lightbar case to the amber color matching amber lights instead of the clear case.
All these suggestions are to discourage or deminish the consequences of risky conduct by some "public" park security staff. They need to remind of that they are Not cops.
Move to Vegas, off strip, you will do well.
Yes, employers should pay more to have in office workers so your business sees more foot traffic 🤣
When London Breed proudly established SF as a Sanctuary City, all hell broke loose.
Marxism gone wild...good luck!
We all know the REAL reason!
Stop hating on us remote workers. I love eating home and saving my lunch money 😂
0:39 4 strips of beef $30.....
One more empty building to house the homeless. The Mayor's plan is working!
Sad. From 2012 - 2018 SF was a fun time. Some of my fondest memories are from living in The City/Bay at that time. Yes, it was still exspensive and homeless/drugs were an issue, (not as bad as post covid) but the area so vibrant and and full of life. If there was truly a solution to not only bring SF back, but make it better, I'd love to be apart of that change. Most of the people in the comments probably have never even been to SF or Cali at all, and only watch stories like this to talk shit, that somehow makes them feel better about themselves I guess? Nobody ever wants to be apart of the solution. Just use up, discard then complain. Rinse. Wash. Repeat. I hope SF reinvents itself and bounces back. It's one of our most unique cities in the States (we don't have a lot of them.) Who is hype to go visit some bland, cookie-cutter, middle-of nowhere USA? Nobody.
I used to live in SF in the 90’s. I absolutely loved it. Sad what it has become. I moved to So. Cal.
If you think the city was great from 2012-2018, too bad you didn't live there in the late 50's thru the mid 80's. San Francisco was one of the most beautiful and charming cities in the world. I can't even begin to tell you how magnificent the city was back in the day. If was a different generation and era back then. No internet, cellphones, people actually had to communicate face to face with people. I do hope one day SF can return to it's former glory! "I left my ❤️ in San Francisco"
Voters wanted it, now are pissed at the politicians that implemented what they voted for
All the Democrat Socialist Party Voters did this to their own city by voting for nonsensical, speculative Democrat Party Politicians, Officials, and Policies 🤣
Cry harder snowflake.
Don't forget the commie libs putting prop 47 in place, lol. I hear no calls to resend it.
You tube has hidden every response to your comment. They are DSA Party, too. They want to destroy SF and all of America.
San Francisco has been a liberal city since before you were born. Ronald Reagan closing down the mental hospitals could have something to do with it, don’t you think?
@@margo3367 Oh Bullshxt. 99 percent are recent junkies. I don't give a shxt about them or their pushers. In fact, the junkies are to blames not the pushers. They're just selling to zombies. Remember, no one forces them to take the drugs. Oh yeah, you libs are pushing weed legally, the gateway to hard drugs.
If only someone could train San Francisco's democrats to use toilet instead of sidewalks, they could turn that space into a store that sells toilets.
y'all voted for London Breed, so don't complain. You get what you want.
For obvious reasons I wish San Francisco was like the town of Chillingbourne.
DEATH LOOP THANKS TO GAVIN AND PALS
Sf..you know that tourist wants to travel there but you can't walk among the problem ignoring it. Just as the comments here gives solution but its being ignored. Good luck.
You vote for incompetence what do you Expect?
anyone with a brain left years ago
Everyone I know refers to it as San Franshithole
Sad to see a world reknown city be destroyed by drugs
Extreme progressive city and they wonder why still.... You get what you voted for.
@1:58: 'Employers have to put their foot down so he can be assured of business'. Thank you for sharing your belief that you are entitled to foot traffic. He refuses to concede the problem may be him, his stale menu, and high prices. He is out of touch of the realities of the streets of San Francisco or simply past-it.
Right? That guy's a hoot. It's restaurant owners who need to say, "There are already two restaurants on this block; opening another one would be stupid." And clearly, they need a business model that's not so dependent on foot traffic and sit-down service. There's a reason delivery services are so popular these days.
except for the robberies and muggings..@@nancymcmonarch
I do sympathize with the business owners even if it's likely identify as progressive democrats; it's still sad seeing such a great city decline. People don't feel safe parking their cars down there for work, let alone dining. Too many break-ins, smashed windows, passing ugly sights and smells. SF used to be so successful. It's not hopeless, once the old generation dies off their replacement will be rational.
And not to mention, it's right next door to the oldest and most known landmarks in the city "Tadich Grill" I'd rather go there and get a big plate of food and I'm sure Tadich is less expensive!!!!! 👍
I have lived here All my life and work for the city still this shit is Gotham
That area has really limited parking and you need to walk through some sketchy areas if you do find a space.
Let's continue to vote for Newsom and keep him and Joe Biden in office! They are doing an amazing job !
This is your city , your town , your community ...FIX IT and CLEAN IT UP!!!!!
I only go to SF, Portland, or Seattle if I want to be robbed, jump over bums and drug addicts and dodge human feces.
SF is a thing of the past
Is Alcatraz big enough to fit homeless people in SF?
It's not that's there not enough foot traffic it's not pleasant to go to any restaurant and see people defecating while eating 💩
It’s not scary if you bring friends Smith& Wesson 😎
San Francisco needs Dirty Harry back!!!!! "Go ahead punk, make my day" 👍
All going according to plans.
The doom loop continues in Democrat Utopia!
Not all Democrats support what's happening in SF. It's the so-called PROGRESSIVE Democrats who are calling the shots and driving SF into the ground.
Please list all the cities run by Republicans that are definitely thriving in 2023.
@@Shorty_LickensStill better than the SF garbage dump.
@@bigx9963 What is still better than the SF garbage dump?
Are you a russian bot, or a typical American with an IQ hovering around 50?
I ate there once, but foid was so so. Lack of food traffic was probably not the main reason
This is what happen when you refuse to sell tacos and burgers.
Bet it has to do with crime and turds on the sidewalks
blame politicians
Nice job democrats...good to see the voters of San Francisco are getting exactly what they voted for
Cry harder, snowflake.
Never been to San Francisco. Now I know I will never go there.
Never heard of this place
Does San Francisco not have a Midtown like a lot of cities do? I know if you go to downtown Atlanta yet it's pretty dead but if you go a few blocks up it seems like that's where everybody's at Midtown and that's where all the condos and residents are. Surprisingly enough downtown Birmingham is doing pretty good to theirs even adding residence to theirs old Historic downtown and converted an AT&T tower to condos
The financial district is just that. It typically is a ghost town after the office workers go home. Downtown - to me - is Union Square where the shops and major department stores are.
Newsom’s utopia, comes to the cities around you🤡
commute to downtown for work, bring my own lunch. after work i head straight home. i do not spend $ in downtown
What I don't understand is SF is such a dense City even if most of the towers are only offices anyway I would think the residents and tourists would still be enough to help downtown. It's not like L A word so spread out and people have so many other things to do with the much warmer weather
14 years is nothing to report.
gee i wonder why its closing.. nobody is going to middle east sf anymore
Damn..there's some heavy comments here today..💵💵
Sorry, not a pandemic issue. Not a building occupancy issue.
People is broke now and home cooking more healthy and cleaner
Bye bye over price foods
More please for homeless! 😃👌 Nice 😢
"Employers have to, maybe put their foot down and say you have to come to work!"
Hahahahahahahahaha, I program for a living and have been working 100% from home since the pandemic. Sorry, there are too many options for me to work from home. I literally save about $15K a year working from home. I save $5k alone just on train fare. I have many friends who left high priced cities once the pandemic started. Some have left the country to go live in much cheaper areas. I feel sorry for these guys, but I don't see things ever going back to what they used to be, because it's just easier to make ends meet not going into the office, among other reasons.
Build a world class soccer stadium in downtown. That will bring in working families!!!!
LOLOL
🤣🤣🤣 San Francisco needs RoboCop and Batman more then a Soccer Stadium!
So long San Francisco.
reap what you sow - hope SF turns into a ghost town
Why do people want to live where it is expensive to do so?. Why would you pay $27! for a bake potato at a restaurant! when you can buy a bag for $2 at the grocery store!.
Guess what, the SF supervisor would bring a "night market" to the street there. It would bring huge crowds, dancing, music and cauliflower tacos...yummy
Sucks what happening to a big city like that. I live in a small cities we doing good. COVID 19 is still effecting people.