I work in the financial district of San Francisco where there are many awesome restaurants. Oftentimes during lunch hour, these places have people forming lines that spill out the door and into the crosswalks. This presents a number of different situations as listed below.
* Food trucks: These mobile restaurants have to park somewhere in the busy streets of downtown. Some examples.
* Street parking: The large vans take up more than a single metered space so they have to stake out a spot early.
* This creates a line that can either be on the curbside or on the building side. It largely depends also on where people congregate while waiting for their order. Obviously building side creates more traffic problems as the line has to turn 90 degrees to the truck.
* Building space: This one is the one I experience. The truck parks in an empty space at my building. The situation is same as the street parking problem.
* Insanely popular establishments: Mostly through "word of mouth" via the internet. These places like Sushirito and Melt create lines out the door and past the neighboring business. A perfect example is Sushirito which cocks left and past the Crunch Gym on Montgomery. Crunch eventually decided to place orange cones by their doors so that their clients can walk freely in without having to cut through the line.
(Image source: http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2011/01/28/what-kind-of-crack-does-sushirrito-put-in-its-namesake-products-to-produce-insanely-long-lines-every-day/)
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