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At Schroeder's, the hofbrau and beer hall in San Francisco's Financial District, the typical lunch crowd mostly consists of office workers on lunch breaks, and the evening crowd usually consists of the same workers in search of post-work drinks.

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But offices have mostly remained closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. And restaurants and bars in the Financial District and SoMa areas are barely hanging on.

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"...We have no customers at happy hours, and we're having our staff come in but there's no one for them to serve."


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"Wearing a mask in a grocery store for a little while is not a big issue," Chun said. "Wearing a mask in a restaurant when you get to take it off to eat and drink is not a big issue either. But for the Financial District's offices, people don’t want to come into an office if they have to mask up for 10 hours, especially if they're vaccinated. People are not coming back until that's removed, and we won’t have customers until it's removed. There is definitely a financial cost.