SF Bay Area

Is San Francisco a Friendly City?
Has staring at technology and navigating sidewalks where there are often mentally ill people made us more anti-social?

What It’s Like Running an SF Restaurant During COVID
Now that SF eateries are allowed have outdoor dinning again (albeit with very stringent social distancing rules) all staff having to wear face coverings at all times, all menus and amenities like salt and pepper shakers needing to be sanitized after each meal. It’s not an easy adjustment for the

San Francisco Allowing Bars, Museums & Saloons to Reopen Next Week w/ Restrictions
San Francisco is allowing bars, museums & saloons to reopen next week (June 29th) providing they follow new social distancing guidelines. In case you haven’t noticed, bars that serve food have already begun serving outdoors, like bizarro Zeitgeist for example: Starting Monday, as long as Gavin Newsom and the State

San Jose Karen Coughs on Baby for Not Social Distancing
If you want to stay alive while getting a frozen yogurt these days, do not upset Covid Karen, because she’ll pull down her mask, and cough on your baby, just to prove her point; namely that you are not ‘social distancing’ far enough from her. The suspect, who was standing

COVID-19 by the Numbers: Is Policy or Ideology Driving Los Angeles County Surge?
It’s no secret that the U.S. has long assumed the leading role in spreading the 2019 novel coronavirus. We’ve lost 121,622 lives nationally to COVID-19 as of Wednesday morning, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. Los Angeles County alone, with a massive population of a little more than

I Volunteered with the SF-Marin Food Bank and it was Fantastic!
I spent last Wednesday delivering food for the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. There are thousands of San Franciscans who can’t leave their homes due to COVID, so the food bank is now delivering tens of thousands of bags full of groceries to those in need.

Racists among us: BLM movement shines light on the best and worst of the Bay Area Area
Prosecutors with the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office announced that they’ve filed felony criminal threat charges with a hate crime enhancement against a 55-year-old San Francisco man. Steven Cibotti, the accused, allegedly approached a family who were sitting down to eat together at Flights Restaurant in Burlingame on June

#AskChefsAnything: The New Campaign Raising Funds for Immigrant Food Service Workers
As you well know by now, the COVID pandemic absolutely brutalized the food service industry. Everything from restaurants to bars to packaging plants to distribution companies were majorly impacted, many having to shut down. While most people in the United States were able to get some form of government assistance, our