July 22, 2021
Lawsuits blocking women and minority restaurant owners from getting COVID relief appear to be also locking out military veterans.
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Bob Freeman is majority owner of the Buena Vista Cafe, a restaurant long known for serving Irish coffee to tourists visiting San Francisco.
Freeman is also a Navy veteran.
“The military was good to me,” Freeman said, sitting at the same bar Andy Garcia picked up Meg Ryan in the ‘90s film, “When a Man Loves a Woman.”
Odd as it sounds, Freeman’s status as a veteran became a problem when he applied for a federal COVID relief grant for the iconic eatery just above Fisherman's Wharf.