{"id":431709,"date":"2026-08-13T11:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431709\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T11:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:58:40","slug":"bayview-buzz-scraps-grand-opening-is-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431709\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayview Buzz: SCRAP\u2019s grand-opening is this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gumbo Social is set to reopen on August 17 after a six-week-long summer closure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past three years since Gumbo Social opened on the corridor it\u2019s grown quickly, and that\u2019s come with some growing pains, wrote owner Dontaye Ball on the restaurant\u2019s website. Gumbo Social has become \u201cone of the most visible Black-owned businesses in the neighborhood,\u201d wrote Ball, who has also taken ownership over City Hall\u2019s Cafe Melange in March of this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEither we pause for six weeks, or we risk closing in six months,\u201d Ball continued. \u201cWe owe ourselves, our staff, and our guests a better experience, and the only way to do that is to take a step back and retool \u2026 We\u2019re not stepping away from Gumbo Social, we\u2019re making sure Gumbo Social is still here five, ten, and twenty years from now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-gumbo-social-serve-dinner-in-bayview?utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv4_a1demo0dis55nb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> posted by Ball in July seeks to raise $7,000 to add a walk-up takeout window to Gumbo Social, which Ball says would allow the restaurant to continue serving food until 10 p.m., instead of closing at 6 p.m. So far, it\u2019s gathered $1,700 in donations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been running hard and hot since the pandemic,\u201d said Ball. Ball said he hasn\u2019t taken a break since the restaurant opened, though he added that he likely worked more hours during the restaurant\u2019s closure than he did while it was open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ball was able to install new equipment and is close to securing a takeout window and with it new, extended hours \u2014\u00a0hopefully by September, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gumbo Social is set to reopen on August 17 after a six-week-long summer closure.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the past three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[11851,114750,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-431709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-bayview","tag-bayview-buzz","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\/431709","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=431709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}