Co-owner Milton Ashley said he feels anxious as another storm heads into the Bay Area. He has one window boarded up and hopes the next storm won't invite more criminal activity.
"The entire building lost power that day, so we figured whoever broke in thought that there wouldn't be enough response time from law enforcement," Ashley said. "All the alarms in the building weren't working because of the power outage, so they were probably in here probably two minutes." "We weren't ready for last week, we didn't think it was going to be that bad, because usually we get a storm but we've never lost power," he added."I have customers who come from out of town because we're starting to get known," Ashley said."Just last week, a gentleman came in from Arizona and he said we were the first person they googled. They came in, they ate, when they went outside, somebody had broken into their car.
"They want to revamp downtown, they want more tourists to come into the Oakland area, but it's hard," he said. "I don't want to say scary, because it's really just unfortunate that you can't feel comfortable, be safe, to just go out to eat," Jackson said."Especially the people doing the robberies and the break-ins, I don't think that they understand that they're really hitting the little man.
Oakland has a Brand.