It's an unfortunate situation and city must do something about it. I think of small businesses that may be losing a lot of customers because of this. This is also related to SF's homeless problem. On three separate occasions, I saw homeless people holding smooth running of restaurants hostage to get food or money from the them. In one case, the person walked in and started eating from a customer's plate. The cashier had to intervene and handle the situation (those customers end up leaving and the restaurant didn't charge them).