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Still Standing SF pulls live data from the SF Open Data Business Registry, filtered to active Food Services businesses with a San Francisco address.
Open date = the business's recorded location start date with the city. Only businesses open 5+ years with no listed end date are shown.
The 4.5-year median is sourced from Only the Bad Die Young, a peer-reviewed study on restaurant mortality in the Western US (Cornell Hospitality Quarterly).