SF restaurant Mama Ji's closes as AI boom pushes rent up 3x
mobav0 · x · 2026-10-09
Mama Ji's, a beloved Castro restaurant in San Francisco, is closing Oct 31 after its landlord raised rent 3x, taking its famous Triple C chicken and tofu dish with it. The poster frames it as collateral damage of the AI boom: rising prices will cause far more such losses, making "pacing the frontier" increasingly compelling.
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