- Martha's exchange alone averages at
21 customers using outdoor seating at any given time, and often peaks late at night around 65.
- Surf, MT's, Stella Blu, Fratello's, and Oddfellows can see anywhere from 10 to 30
customers sitting outside at one time during peak hours.
- San Francisco Kitchen claims 80% of all customers choose outdoor seating if the weather is nice.
- Casa Vieja and Fratello's claim that almost
if not all customers choose to sit outside if the weather is nice.
-MT's, Oddfellows, and The Flight Center all claim to have an outdoor seating pick rate of 75%.
The largest complaints from businesses have been a lack of parking, an unusually high frequency
of homeless individuals bothering customers, and a general decline in overall customers,
especially during the height of COVID-
19. The biggest complaints from patrons have been slightly more traffic
onMain Street (although most follow that up by saying that if you know the side streets
well enough you can avoid the traffic), less
parking, not enough outdoor seating at some of the restaurants, and the fact that the cones to
create bike lanes are often in the way of traffic, or knockedover and blocking a bike lane.
At the end of the month I will finalize all spreadsheets and graphs, and
make sure it is distributedto anyone who would like a copy. This will include
all data from counting
how many people are sittingoutside each day, along with a graph for each restaurant
with outdoor seating showing its trends, average users, etc.
The Mavors State of the City address, the Mayor stated:
"Positive economic impact, the expanded dining cannot be overstated, a 2021 study of visitors
to our bars during the summer months reveals that at least 400,000 patrons came downtown to
enjoy the expanded outdoor dining.
If we consider how much each one spends this adds up to millions of dollars, millions of doliars
of additional revenue
A recent economic survey reveals that 80% of the visitors to main street come for the
restaurants and bars."
