A popular San Francisco breakfast joint that served as inspiration for the Belcher family restaurant in “Bob’s Burgers” has permanently closed.
shuttered on Monday due to mounting debt incurred during the pandemic, rising inflation rates and other challenges related to the building it was operating out of, owner Reid Hannula told SFGATE.
The greasy spoon known for its fluffy beignets and made-from-scratch baked goods opened in 1980 as Mabel’s Just For You Café on 18th Street in Potrero Hill. The modest space with just two tables outside and eight stools at the counter later became the casual French restaurant Chez Maman. Arienne Landry bought the restaurant from the original owners in 1990 and dropped “Mabel’s” from the name.
By January 2020, the restaurant was finally starting to recover. “And then when COVID hit, everything stopped,” Hannula said. The cafe pivoted to a takeout-only business model with just four employees: Hannula and his now 27-year-old son, Zeke, plus two cooks. At one point during the pandemic, this skeleton crew worked for 76 days in a row in an effort to keep the business going.
Over the years, Just For You Café has served a steady clientele of UCSF nurses, tech workers, artists and families, with some customers coming in twice a day. The late City Lights founder and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a regular, andthe actor would frequently come down and eat dinner right before closing time while no customers were there, Hannula said.
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