With the median price of a rental at $4,550, restaurant workers can’t afford to live in the city considered the epicenter of the foodie revolution
The handwritten sign on the front window of the shuttered Blue Fig Café last month bid a sad farewell to the days when San Francisco could support an old-fashioned coffee house.
The problem that led the eight-year-old Valencia Street café to shut down wasn’t a lack of coffee drinkers in the trendy Mission district. Nor was it the sky-high commercial rents or the competition from the tech industry cafeterias. It was simply that it has become nearly impossible to pay anyone in San Francisco enough to make you a cup of coffee.
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