Tech sector thrives at expense of Silicon Valley restaurant scene
Restaurateurs say that staying afloat is a daily battle with rising rents, high local fees and acute labour shortages
Palo Alto, California
IT was not so long ago that the aroma of Moroccan spiced prawns and wood-oven pizzas wafted out to a downtown street here from the open-air patio of a once popular eatery called Zibibbo.
Today, that patio is behind locked doors, obscured by frosted glass. The pizza oven is gone. The formerly crowded bar has been converted into a sparsely populated startup space of a dozen engineers, their bikes and whiteboards. After 17 years in operation, the restaurant closed in 2014. The space is now an American Express venture capital office and a startup incubator.
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