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Blue Bottle Coffee Says Lack of Coronavirus Data Spurred US-Wide Closure

Bay Area-originating Blue Bottle Coffee says that it temporarily sealed in a U.S. — though stays open in South Korea and Japan — due to any country’s smoothness rate data.

In the flurry of grill closures before to a Bay Area’s shelter-in-place order, it’s reasonable to have missed that Blue Bottle Coffee, a Nestlé-owned tellurian chain that began as a common Oakland roastery, announced that all a cafes opposite a U.S. had temporarily tighten their doors.

“While we wish we could sojourn open to offer we a protected breakwater in these capricious times,” CEO Bryan Meehan wrote, “we simply do not have a advantage of adequate information to safeguard a open spaces are safe.” While other bondage sojourn open, sometimes to worker dismay, Blue Bottle’s US doors are still shut, even for takeout and delivery.

However, a locations in South Korea and Japan are still open. That’s because, COO Karl Strovink says around tweet, “In a US, we have unsound information on a series or plcae of putrescent as good as smoothness rates. In Korea, contrast and information distant surpass US rate to-date; In Japan, medical caring and tests are some-more affordable and permitted than in a US.”

According to Meehan, a association will “reevaluate these cafeteria closures in dual weeks and will usually free when we feel it is protected to do so. All a staff, including baristas, will be paid for their scheduled hours,” he says, and “longer term, we are also meditative creatively about new ways to offer a guest with care, to accommodate a plea of these indeterminate times.”

And in other news…

  • Sunset magazine, that for over 120 years has chronicled a West Coast’s food and lifestyle scene, put a staff on delinquent leave this week. Its destiny stays uncertain. [SF Chronicle]
  • Mission District pub Monk’s Kettle is dropping takeout and smoothness prices for folks who sequence forward or around a pickup window. [Mission Local]
  • In other deals, Noe Valley’s Bistro SF Grill is portion $5.50 boxed meals, money only. [SF Gate]
  • Whether grill attention workers are still display adult to work or have been laid off, no one knows what could occur next. [Eater National]
  • As if things weren’t stressful enough, someone called a explosve hazard into an East Bay grocery Wednesday. The store was evacuated for 4.5 hours while explosive-sniffing dogs reliable that a whole thing was bunk. [East Bay Times]
  • Locanda, a nearly nine-year-old Mission District Roman restaurant from a Delfina crew, competence tighten for good in a arise of a stream shelter-in-place order. “We’re perplexing to get an SBA loan so we can stay open or re-open,” co-owner Annie Stoll says. “We can’t re-open if we don’t have funding.” The grill group’s Pizzeria Delfina locations are still open for takeout and delivery. [SF Gate]
  • The Ferry Building Farmers Market isn’t a usually one that’s attracting shoppers, as folks headed to (with reasonable amicable distance, don’t trip, Jake Tapper) U.N. Plaza’s Heart of a City marketplace on Wednesday. [NBC Bay Area]
  • Former Eater SF editor Caleb Pershan writes that restaurants will need “rent abatement, taxation deferrals, and evident stagnation benefits” to tarry a stream crisis. [Eater National]
  • Gillian Fitzgerald, a co-owner of new Mission Irish bar Casements, says that amicable enmity is tough when you’re perplexing to comfort folks who are unhappy or struggling. “It’s a uncanny time, a unequivocally uncanny time,” she says. “I consider this is a pivotal impulse for multitude to know that village is so important, and it’s unequivocally tough to close yourself divided and not hold people.” [SF Chronicle]
  • Summertime food, wine, and song fest BottleRock Napa Valley has been deferred until October. [KPIX]
  • Nonprofits and other grassroots organizations national are operative to assistance those influenced by COVID-19. Here’s a list of service supports focused on a grill industry. [Eater National]