The final remaining Denny’s in San Francisco closed its doorways this month as a result of clients would often go away with out paying their invoice in the crime-plagued city, based on the restaurant’s proprietor.
Chris Haque shuttered the 24-hour diner at 816 Mission St. close to the Union Sq. part on Aug. 1 after 25 years.
“We’re the one retailer left, and we operated till the final day that we may,” Haque told SFGATE.
“The price of doing enterprise is great. There’s vandalism, and folks come and eat and stroll away, and there’s nobody to cease them.”
Haque additionally lamented the truth that a key income — enterprise conventions — had dried up in recent times as a result of tech business shifting to hybrid work throughout the pandemic.
“It’s a gorgeous metropolis — we adore it, we’ve been there so a few years,” Haque stated.
“However I believe [city officials] ought to make it extra business-friendly.”
The Put up has sought remark from Denny’s.
In 2022, Haque’s Denny’s was dubbed with the doubtful distinction of being named the most costly in all of California.
The most cost effective meal — the Match Slam, which comes with an egg white scramble with spinach and tomatoes, turkey bacon and an English muffin — value $17.99, which was $5 greater than the meal value at a Denny’s in San Diego or Los Angeles, according to SFGATE.
Earlier this yr, one other Denny’s diner positioned throughout the Bay in Oakland closed down after 54 years on account of a surge in crime within the space.
Quick meals chain In-N-Out also shut down its Oakland location this yr due to a rash of violent crime and theft.
Since 2020, scores of corporations have moved their headquarters out of the San Francisco Bay Space on account of a decline within the high quality of life, rising value of dwelling and surging crime.
Tesla, Chevron, American Airways, Oracle, Palantir and Charles Schwab are among the many dozens of blue-chip companies which have shifted personnel away from Northern California in favor of low-tax jurisdictions in Texas, Florida and different states.
Denny’s operates greater than 1,700 eating places in a number of nations, together with the US, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, United Arab Emirates and Honduras.
