Rome’s Kitchen

Rome's Kitchen is actually the incubator for my family to help us get to the next level” - Rome Rogers

In this episode, our featured voice is Rome Rogers the founder of Rome’s Kitchen in the bay view hunters point neighborhood of San Francisco. Rome like many food entrepreneurs decided to take his love of food and hard work and invest in himself to pursue his dream of starting his own restaurant. Rome’s Kitchen is a unique Bayview mash-up of Italian and soul food. I’ll let Rome tell you more about how he came up with this unique blend of food and culture in the creation of his restaurant and catering business as well as the impact of covid-19 on his business.

The Golden Gate Restaurant Association has pushed back at the City of San Francisco’s latest roll back of restaurant operations with the closing of Indoor Dining. The almost daily changes between cautiously reopening restaurants and our economy and the increase of Covid-19 cases are having a devastating impact on our small business owners. The Golden Gate Restaurant Association estimates that the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on our favorite neighborhood restaurants could be that Fifty Percent of them will shut down permanently. For more insights into how Covid-19 is impacting our restaurant businesses please listen to our Episode 11 interview with Laurie Thomas the Executive Director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association

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