Transcript: Interview: Tom Sweeney discusses the closing of Sears Fine Food in San Francisco

MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
12-30-2003
Interview: Tom Sweeney discusses the closing of Sears Fine Food in San Francisco

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM

MELISSA BLOCK, host:

Since 1938, Sears Fine Food in San Francisco has beckoned customers to sit down and have a plate of Swedish pancakes. The recipe was inherited from one of the original owners, Hilbur Sears' Swedish family. Yesterday, Sears Fine Food closed after 65 years of serving breakfast and lunch on Powell Street near Union Square, serving 11,000 pancakes a day, they said. The owners were deep in debt; they'd had trouble with a union and legal problems. Tom Sweeney had been a doorman at the Sir Francis ...

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