Comment by deadmetheny

This isn't hugely surprising - margins for restaurants are extremely thin, so the eventual end game at this rate is for establishments that are extremely expensive and able to actually pay their workers decently to be the only choice available. Upping the minimum wage for them is really just going to result in speeding up the process (you cannot extract blood from a turnip, after all) and putting more people out of work even faster. Something's gotta give here, and it's unfortunately probably not going to be the people who were living and working in SF before the tech boom.