Square payment outage wreaks havoc on Bay Area restaurants
FILE – Head barista Stephen Davidson, left, uses Square at Blue Bottle in San Francisco on May 14, 2013. A Square outage left Bay Area restaurant owners unable to process …
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Oakland soul food restaurant Burdell is finally opening
Owner/chef Geoff Davis poses for a photo at Burdell in Oakland, Calif. on Sept. 6, 2023.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE As a young kid, Geoff Davis loved going to the Central Valley farmers …
Award-winning ‘Check, Please!’ TV show returns to Bay Area
Guest Daron Cam (right) on set with “Check, Please! Bay Area” host Leslie Sbrocco (second from right) and other guests. Courtesy KQED A new season of the Bay Area’s most …
Kroger, Albertsons to sell 400 stores, some California groceries
Albertons, which owns Safeway, is in talks along with Kroger to sell over 400 stores. Getty Images Kroger and Albertsons are in talks to sell more than 400 grocery stores …
Oakland mayor boosts disgraced NBA star’s proposed new restaurant
Former NBA player and Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson (left) and Oakland mayor Sheng Thao in Oakland on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. Gabe Fernandez/SFGATE Allegations that Kevin Johnson sexually abused several …
San Francisco 49ers’ Nick Bosa becomes highest-paid defensive player in NFL history | NFL News
Nick Bosa had his San Francisco 49ers worried ahead of the start of the new season, but after finally putting pen to paper on a new contract, his delaying tactics …
Top Oakland taqueria closes into 2024 over construction woes
Pedestrians walk by a fence blocks off patio seating area under construction outside Tacos el Ultimo Baile in Oakland, Calif. on Sept. 5, 2023.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE The owner of Tacos el …
WaPo shafts Bay Area pizza in national ‘best’ list
Several of the different slices of pizza at Outta Sight Pizza in San Francisco on March 7, 2023. Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE The Washington Post recently published an article naming its favorite …
Burning Man allows single company to charter its flight program
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags The Federal Aviation Administration designated the Burning Man airport 88NV in 2009 in Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada. Diane Cook and Len Jenshel/Getty …
State lawmakers clear way for controversial Berkeley housing project
A man hangs out at People’s Park in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. A bill that could clear the way for a controversial construction housing project at the …