+1 - San Franciscans love to wait in line.
EDIT: getting downvotes, not saying all of SF, but its definitely a "thing" - if you live here you've seen it
I've come to believe that San Franciscans love pain and inconvenience.
Explaining why they moved to San Francisco in the first place?
I recently moved here, I am not experiencing pain. Inconvenience is strictly in the eye of the beholder.
I moved to SF to continue a relationship with a woman who was in residency for pyschiatry at Standford.
I didn't know it at the time but this was the exact reason I moved to SF.
It's the only explanation.
Really? I occasionally see lines for lunch, but that's more of a rush thing. Where do you see this?
Bi-Rite, Tartine, Mama's, Bob's, San Tung, Tpumps, Mensho Ramen. It is a weird manifestation of SF group; many of those places aren't even that good. Peninsula and South Bay aren't much better, mediocre ramen places in particular draw huge lines (Santa Ramen, Santa Ramen, and especially average: Orenchi).