Storied 90-year-old Italian restaurant is sold after owners couldn't find any family members to take over

A 90-year-old family-owned Italian edifice has been sold aft nary much family members could beryllium recovered to tally it.  

Tommaso's Ristorante Italiano successful San Francisco has been sold aft much than 50 years by nan Crotti family. 

One of nan owners Carmen Crotti antecedently told San Francisco Gate that she and her co-owner relatives had hoped different personnel of nan family would return it complete but that it wasn't imaginable aft choosing different profession paths. 

'This has been much than a business to us, arsenic complete nan years our customers person go an integral portion of our family,' nan Crotti family said successful a connection connected Monday. 

'Our logic for status is simple. We person been present for 51 years, getting older and nan beingness facet of moving a edifice takes its toll,' Carmen told nan Gate.

'That been said, Tommasos has been our life, our customers person go family and we will miss it greatly.

'Also, we will beryllium coming until nan extremity of nan twelvemonth to insure a soft transition.'

The Crotti family will manus complete nan edifice to nan caller owners successful December. 

Carmen stressed that very small will alteration nether nan caller ownership, which plans to support nan restaurant’s paper and name.

The unit will besides enactment connected aft nan edifice changes hands, galore of whom person worked astatine nan edifice for decades. 

Tommaso's, antecedently called Lupo's, was opened successful 1935 by nan Cantalupo family, who immigrated to San Francisco from Naples, according to nan San Francisco Chronicle.

It is reported to person served nutrient from nan first wood-fire pizza oven connected nan West Coast. 

The edifice was sold successful 1971 to cook Tommy Chin who changed nan sanction to Tommaso's.

In 1973 nan Crotti family bought nan establishment, kept nan sanction and person tally nan section favourite ever since. 

Tommaso's was awarded Legacy Business position by nan metropolis successful 2017. 

Across America, restaurants person progressively been struggling this year. Faced pinch higher costs, they person put up paper prices - but that has led to a autumn successful customers. 

Bigger chains for illustration Applebee's, TGI Fridays and Boston Market person have each precocious shuttered restaurants, arsenic person smaller chains for illustration BurgerFi. 

Red Lobster revenge for bankruptcy successful May and besides shuttered almost 100 restaurants.  New owners were announced this week - arsenic it emerged nan debt-ridden chain owes $21 cardinal for shrimp alone.

Chains person been worst deed successful California wherever nan minimum costs for accelerated nutrient restaurants jumped to $20-an-hour from April 1. 

In early June, Mexican concatenation Rubio's unopen 48 locations in nan authorities and besides revenge for bankruptcy. 

Mom-and-pop operations overmuch like Tommasos person besides been shutting.

Earlier this month, for example, Fargo's Pit BBQ successful Texas closed aft much than 2 decades of serving brisket, ribs and other barbecue classics.

Last month, two classical Bay Area Italian restaurants closed connected nan aforesaid day.