The business owner was given a month to vacate.
Inmy Chi had anticipated renewing the lease of her nearly 40-year-old family business, Sai’s Vietnamese Restaurant in San Francisco, but now she faces the real possibility of closing for good after her landlord ordered her to vacate next month.. Chi told SFGATE that the news was a total surprise after her landlord had initially offered a lease extension earlier this month.
“They emailed us on Jan. 5 and asked if we wanted to renew the lease,” Chi said. “We emailed them back on Jan. 20, but we didn’t hear from them. We called and called and on Jan. 25, they answered and said they wanted us to leave. I still have to process this. I think it unethical.” Chi says that she wasn’t sure why SHVO, the property landlord and large development firm, had a change of heart in a matter of weeks. SFGATE reached out to SHVO for comment, but the agency abruptly ended the call. The development firm most recently made headlines in 2020 when developer Michael Shvo bought the Transamerica Pyramid forSai’s Vietnamese Restaurant at 505 Washington St. in San Francisco.Once Sai’s Vietnamese Restaurant moves next month, it’s unclear what will go in its place.
Sai’s Vietnamese Restaurant first opened 37 years ago under the ownership of Chi’s uncle and aunt. For decades the restaurant has been known to draw lines out the door, where customers waited for a bowl of hot pho. Chi, who became the restaurant owner in 2017, says the business has always been family-owned and operated and added that, in many ways, her loyal staff had become part of the family too.
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