Charted: Shifts in SF's dining patterns
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At bars and restaurants in San Francisco using the Square payment processing system, nighttime transactions are back to pre-pandemic levels, the company says.
What they did: Square looked at the share of all in-person restaurant and bar transactions using its platform between 7pm and 4am from January 2019 to June 2024 for its summer quarterly restaurant report.
What they found: In San Francisco, 29% of all bar and restaurant transactions on the platform took place after 7pm this June, the same share of transactions seen in January 2019.
Zoom out: New York and Miami continue to nab the top spots, but Boston saw the biggest growth, rising from a 12% share in Q2 2019 to 31% in Q2 2024, per the data.
Editor's note: The chart text has been corrected to reflect that the chart shows a three-month rolling average, not monthly figures.