Forecasters say restaurant revenues will reach record levels in 2012 – jumping 3.5 percent over last year – while the industry’s employment numbers return to what they were before the recession.
It’s a fry cry from the blues local restaurateurs were singing a few years ago at the peak of the downturn, when their revenues plummeted as low as 40 percent and Bay Area eateries were closing at nearly twice the national average. But experts here say San Francisco is now on target to meet the national sales numbers – and maybe even beat them.
