Geez, Louise.
The favored San Francisco breakfast restaurant that inspired the eatery within the hit animated sitcom “Bob’s Burgers” has closed its doors.
Just For You Café, a comfortable brunch spot in town’s Dogpatch neighborhood — the blueprint for the Belcher family’s burger joint on the Fox series — shuttered after 43 years on Monday.
Pandemic-incurred debt, rising inflation rates and constructing issues led to its closer, owner Reid Hannula told SFGATE.
“The long and in need of it’s that we actually haven’t been earning profits since COVID, and it’s just been form of a battle,” he told the outlet. “I used a disaster loan to drift us, personal money to drift us … I like the restaurant, but it surely hadn’t been capable of pay me for the last two years.”
Within the long-running series, which debuted in 2011 and is now in its thirteenth season, Bob Belcher runs his dream restaurant, Bob’s Burgers, together with his wife, Linda, and kids Tina, Gene and Louise.
Reoccurring characters within the show — which also spawned a 2022 movie — have been voiced by stars like Kevin Kline, Jenny Slate, Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari and Zach Galifianakis.
Once the show’s creator found the eatery, he had a neighborhood artist design the fictional restaurant based on it.Instagram/@justforyoucafe
When creator Loren Bouchard was developing the show, he traveled around San Francisco snapping pictures of restaurants for inspiration, and when he got here upon Just For You, he immediately knew it was something special.
“I looked within the window and saw something big,” he told SFGATE. “Like, bolt-of-lightning big.”
Bouchard especially liked its pass-through between the kitchen and the front counter, which he in comparison with “a children’s puppet theater.”
He then asked a neighborhood artist, Sirron Norris, to attract an interior modeled after its design, so he could create scenes during which Bob could interact together with his family while working the grill.
The beloved restaurant — which was known for its comfort-food menu of specialties like Latest Orleans-style fluffy beignets dusted with powdered sugar and homemade bread — opened in 1980.
Celebrity customers included Paul Rudd and Drew Barrymore.
“Bob’s Burgers” debuted on Fox in 2011 and is now in its thirteenth season.TBS
“I’m hoping any person can move in and begin a restaurant as soon as possible,” Hannula said. “Just For You was probably the most amazing experiences of my entire life, and I need to thank everyone who supported us.”
Loyal patrons of the restaurant expressed their sadness about its closure on Instagram.
“That rare thing, an ideal joint. The world is a smaller, meaner place,” lamented
@kirkrivera8.
“I used to be hoping this was a late Aprils fools joke! That is terrible news,” said @dailydriversf.
“Such an establishment to this neighborhood,” added @lunawomyn.
“Thanks kindly for the various many years you’ve gotten brought joy to my stomach and heart!”