Two celebrated Oakland restaurants closed on Saturday. Their owners said ongoing crime killed their businesses.
OAKLAND -- Saturday was the last day of business for two popular downtown Oakland restaurants. Both owners blamed crime for killing their restaurants.Even before Le Cheval opened at 3 p.m. Saturday, dozens of loyal customers were waiting in front of the Vietnamese restaurant hoping to get a table.
"I'm going to miss the great food. The food is -- wow! It blows your mind," said another longtime customer Michael, who also declined to give a last name.The owner, Son Tran, struggled to hold back tears as he reflected on the restaurant that his late mother founded.Tran blamed out-of-control car burglaries and violent crime in the neighborhood for scaring many longtime customers away.
Galeto opened in 2013. Nascimento said players from the Raiders and Warriors like Shaun Livingston and Andre Iguodala used to eat there before the teams moved out of Oakland. The Warriors used to have their training facility across the street.He said he survived the lack of office workers last year because people were still dining at night. This year, he said, customers stopped coming for dinner because of the rise in robberies and car break-ins. He also lost workers due to crime.
Oakland police reported 10,581 car burglaries from January to Sept. 24 this year. That was a 42 percent increase compared to the same period last year and officers said most people have stopped reporting break-ins. The auto burglary number is likely much higher.
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