{"id":348603,"date":"2026-06-05T21:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348603\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:42:24","slug":"from-coworkers-to-co-owners-a-couple-brings-their-family-restaurant-to-the-inner-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348603\/","title":{"rendered":"From coworkers to co-owners: A couple brings their family restaurant to the Inner Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published Jun. 5, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n

If you ask your friends (or a human resources professional) if dating a coworker is a good idea, you\u2019ll probably get a resounding no. But for Scott and Caitlyn Morton, it was undoubtedly the right choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The couple met in 2014 while working at MoMo\u2019s (opens in new tab)<\/a>, the rowdy bar and grill across the street from Oracle Park. Twelve years later, they\u2019ve not only managed to stay together but have purchased MoMo\u2019s and, on Friday, are opening their second restaurant, Maggie & Mac\u2019s (opens in new tab)<\/a>, in the Inner Sunset. \u201cI don\u2019t know what the success rate is of dating your coworkers and ending up actually growing your business together, but we found a way,\u201d Scott says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maggie & Mac\u2019s takes over the former Social Kitchen & Brewery space on 9th Avenue and Irving Street. The couple says MoMo\u2019s, which caters to the beer-guzzling pre-game crowd, was a great place to start their adventure in restaurant ownership. But they\u2019ve since gotten married, moved to Westwood Park, and had two children. Maggie & Mac\u2019s \u2014 named for their daughters, Margaret and Mackenzie \u2014 represents the next chapter of their lives both professionally and personally, a place where you can \u201cget a wide array of cocktails and beer and wine and still have a kids menu that\u2019s dynamic enough where you can put your kids in a booth and make it worth your while,\u201d Scott says. \u201cBoth things can be equally true. That\u2019s at least our vision. We\u2019ll see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chef Daniel Bermudez and bar manager Gil Gallegos are behind Maggie & Mac\u2019s menu of classic American comfort food with plenty of personal touches. There are twice-baked potato skins showered in cheddar cheese, scattered with bacon, and drizzled with chipotle crema. The Goldilocks Caesar salad arrives topped with 3 ounces of Dungeness crab. (Scott prefers a creamy, anchovy-forward dressing, while Caitlyn likes a zesty lemon version, so they combined the two to create something \u201cjust right\u201d \u2014 hence the name.) The M&M smashburger stars a 6-ounce ground chuck-brisket patty topped with cheese, grilled onions, pickles, and garlic-onion aioli. The menu also features three pizzas, including the Hot One, with spicy marinara, hot copa, pepperoni, pickled Fresno chili, and hot honey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The menu is well-suited to the couple\u2019s family-focused vision. The recipe for the meatloaf comes from Scott\u2019s mom, and the macaroni salad riffs on one made by Caitlyn\u2019s mom. Sally\u2019s onion strings are named for Scott\u2019s aunt, who loves the onion strings at MoMo\u2019s so much that they knew they had to bring them over to Maggie & Mac\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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The children\u2019s menu has house-made \u201cUncrustables,\u201d grilled cheese stuffed with a burger patty, and a child-size pizza. Scott says he hopes it\u2019s the kids who drag their parents to Maggie & Mac\u2019s. When asked if there is an age cutoff for the children\u2019s menu, he answers with a resounding no.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a 40-year-old orders an Uncrustable, I\u2019m giving him a high-five,\u201d Scott says.<\/p>\n

The space is warm and homey, washed in earthy tones such as the golden brown that covers the walls and rustic wood ceiling. Caitlyn chose the palette to evoke the feeling of nostalgia. They want a meal in the dining room to feel like going to a friend\u2019s house for dinner.<\/p>\n

Green and brown booths line the wall across from the bar, while the mezzanine is filled with wooden tables to create an area removed from the bar but still near the action. There are a couple of TVs to stream games, though it doesn\u2019t feel like a sports bar. Light streams in from the big windows to 9th Avenue, as well as through a couple of skylights. The N Judah rumbles by. In the back is a tucked-away space, where Social Kitchen & Brewery once stored beer tanks, that they\u2019re calling the Cable Car Room. Scott describes the vibe as \u201ccampy,\u201d noting that the bathrooms feature playful art from the movies \u201cBig Daddy\u201d and \u201cTed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though we\u2019re in a neighborhood in the Inner Sunset that has a million places to eat and drink, we wanted to stylistically do something that was starkly contrasting with everything else,\u201d Scott says.<\/p>\n

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The soft opening Wednesday saw the room full of family and friends, all ready to celebrate. His friend Jason Whitney lives in the Inner Sunset and said he\u2019s proud and looking forward to having a new dinner option near his house. There\u2019s a direct line \u2014 literally \u2014 from the couple\u2019s first restaurant to their second, he points out, since the N Judah goes directly from MoMo\u2019s to Maggie & Mac\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Scott\u2019s dad, Brian Morton, who admittedly might be biased, said Scott and Caitlyn are destined for success.<\/p>\n

Have thoughts on this story?Start the conversation<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited for them because they\u2019re my son and my daughter-in-law,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I feel like they\u2019ve earned it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maggie & Mac\u2019sOpening hoursTuesday through Friday, noon to 9:30 p.m., and Saturday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Jun. 5, 2026at6:00am If you ask your friends (or a human resources professional) if dating a coworker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[35067,18240,8456,412,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-348603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-eat-here","tag-inner-sunset","tag-restaurant-openings","tag-restaurants","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}