Chron curmudgeon Chuck Nevius would really like to blame the closing of Tenderloin café Little Bird on that cranky NIMBY that fought them for months about their outdoor seating, but really it all came down to the dicey economics of running a small, neighborhood, semi-vegan coffeehouse. "We never broke even in the last year,” says owner Chelsea Addison-Torres. “We were getting closer, but I felt like I never worked harder in my life in the last year and I was never away from my kids so much." [Nevius/SF Gate, Earlier]
