SAN FRANCISCO — Lifelong restauranteur Umberto Gibin won't be walking into his 14-year-old restaurant Barbacco in San Francisco's Financial District for service come Sept. 30.
"It was in my mind already, because I noticed that we were just bleeding, and again I didn't want to believe it," said Gibin."I didn't see the volume that we need even to break even. for that matter." Before the pandemic, Barbacco did about 150 covers for lunch and the same for dinner. Now, he's seeing about a third of that.