Post #164931 by martiki on Fri, Jun 10, 2005 7:48 AM

Vic's SF is not a franchise location, it's owned by the company directly, as are Emeryville and Palo Alto. It took over 100 investors to pay for it because A) TVs would rather not fork out their own money but more importantly B) The location needed a massive seismic retrofit before reopening, and the costs spiraled into the millions. But they insisted that the location was perfect to recapture the glory of Stars and be a power broker location that close to City Hall, so there was no other choice.