The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/06/06/that-toronado-deal-appears-in-jeopardy-as-staff-and-patrons-balk-at-potential-tech-bro-takeover/It appears there was a deal moving forward to sell craft beer haven Toronado to a new owner, and that owner was even making plans to install a rooftop beer garden. But founder and longtime owner Dave Keene appears to have had second thoughts. When the story broke in late March that the Lower Haight's beloved beer mecca Toronado, and the building it lives in, was being sold to a crypto bro who had been boasting online about launching a memecoin to go along with the bar, some uproar seemed all but certain. Could respected beer guy Dave Keene really have cut such a deal? Would fans of the famously cash-only bar ever accept such a

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