Why San Francisco Restaurants Are Suffocating

What I witnessed during my two years in the industry

Azhar Hashem
The Bold Italic
Published in
9 min readFeb 17, 2019

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At Tawla during dinner service. Photo: Azhar Hashem

One Saturday in June of last year, six months before we closed our beloved restaurant, Tawla, we said goodbye to our lead line cook — one of the last three people left from our original 25-person team when we opened in the Mission two years prior.

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Technologist. Marketer. Food lover. Proud resident of San Francisco. Previously, proprietor of Tawla SF.