On Tuesday, the Entertainment Commission approved the request for an after-hours permit from the Subway sandwich shop located on Geary near 21st Avenue. The permit will allow the restaurant to resume 24 hour operations.
Captain Eric Vintero and Tobius Moore, the Permit Officer for the Richmond District station, recommended conditions for the approval at the hearing, such as adding one security guard on Thursday through Saturday nights between 10pm-3am.
The final approval did not incorporate the recommended conditions, but Office Moore says they don’t anticipate issues with Subway being open again 24 hours a day.
“Considering we have never had a police issue at that Subway, we are confident that all will be well,” Moore wrote in an email.
The Entertainment Commission also plans to conduct a 6 month and 1 year review to determine if any conditions would be appropriate in the future.
So the next time you have a craving for a turkey sandwich at 4am, you know where to go.
Sarah B.
So bizarre that this is one of the only 24 hour restaurants (or, for that matter, businesses) in the city and it is located all the way out in the Outer Richmond. Does it really bring in enough traffic at 4am to make it worth staying open? Where are these people coming from?
The 7/11 at 15th and Geary is also 24 hours I believe.
Not a restaurant but you can get a hotdog and slurpee there.
People do live in the Outer (more Central since it is at 21st ave) Richmond. So, perhaps on their way home from a party in the District, other parts of the city, or the Bay Area. Also, the Blarney Stone is across the street from the Subway and I and others from the bar have grabbed a sandwich there late at night.
Not everyone operates on “normal” hours. When I was an independent contractor doing web development, I was often working into the wee hours of the morning, and would hop down to the Thai me Up place at thee am for a late dinner/breakfast. Sometimes on the weekends people want to be able to eat out late.