The 100-year-old Mexican restaurant (or 103, according to some), has closed for good.
Since 2012, Aaron Presbrey and Barry Moore have owned and operated the sit-down restaurant at 2817 24th St. in the Mission District of San Francisco. With its storied history, it’s a place that was mostly kept alive by neighborhood regulars and longtime patrons, especially during the heart of the pandemic, according to Presbrey.
“By the end, we knew about 70% of our customers by sight if not by name,” Presbrey told SFGATE by email. When the city was in lockdown, and despite San Francisco’s slower return to indoor dining compared with other big cities, many of Roosevelt’s devoted customers still wanted to eat the signature tamales and other Mexican dishes. So they ordered takeout. But it wasn’t enough to sustain the business.
“This change [in business model] definitely impacted our bottom line because of the steep fees charged by the delivery services,” Presbrey said. “We also noticed that many of our regular customers moved out of San Francisco during the pandemic for various reasons.”
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