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Underwhelming experience at SF taco and beer festival leaves attendees calling for refunds

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2 years ago

August 5, 2024

Underwhelming experience at SF taco and beer festival leaves attendees calling for refunds

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Hundreds of people attending the West Coast Taco and Beer Festival in San Francisco Saturday were met with a long line leading to underwhelming expectations. For many, the event was not what they paid for.

“It was probably like almost an hour in line,” said Matt Jenkins who attended the event with his fiancée. “They only had one person checking tickets at the front door, which was insane. I don’t know, there were like probably over 1,000 people that were waiting in line.”

According to an admission ticket, the event offered alcohol tastings and taco samples from over 30 vendors. However, according to Jenkins and his fiancée Willa, it wasn’t anywhere close to that.

“It was not 30,” said Willa Bautista. “Ten maybe, and the beer was a little sample, and the line to get it was long.”

They also say none of the food was free. It all costed extra.

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“We had heard after the first 20 minutes, all of the free options ran out,” Jenkins said. “But no one was even able to get in by the time that was offered.”

In a statement, Blue Stream Entertainment, the organizer said:

“We’re saddened to hear about the reaction we’ve had coming to San Francisco. When we built this company, our mission was to bring a community together to celebrate local chefs and breweries. We are as transparent as we possibly can be and we understand the community’s frustration with the long lines and the limited tastings. We are currently working with our vendors to improve future events to make sure that we hold our mission statement true and improve the guest experience.”

They went on to say they have changed the format for their upcoming event in San Jose. The tickets will include bottomless beer samples and the food will be for purchase. Jenkins and Bautista say they have tried to ask for refunds but haven’t been able to get ahold of anyone.

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“I DM’d them on Instagram explaining the situation and asking for a refund, but I haven’t heard anything back yet,” Bautista said. “There wasn’t, like, an email or ‘contact us’ or anything, like, so I don’t know.”

Bautista said the event’s Instagram page was full of angry comments from festival attendees, and she believes a lot of those comments were deleted.

“I was looking at the comments. It was basically saying ‘This is a scam. Don’t go,’” she said. “Then, when we left the event like 30 minutes later, I wanted to see if more had commented and all the comments I saw before were gone.”

To them, it was something they looked forward to, but now they think they just wasted $100.

“It is extremely deceptive of those people to throw an event like that,” Jenkins said. “Then to think they will be ok having people come to an event like that.”

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Bay Area restaurant has strict policy on acceptable children behavior

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5 hours ago

July 8, 2026

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Kevin Ko reports on a restaurant policy that could lead to parents being asked to leave over their misbehaving children.

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49ers Sign DL Gracen Halton to a Four-Year Deal

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16 hours ago

July 7, 2026

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49ers Sign DL Gracen Halton to a Four-Year Deal

The San Francisco 49ers today announced they have signed DL Gracen Halton to a four-year deal. With the signing, the 49ers now have all eight of the team’s 2026 draft picks under contract.

Halton (6-3, 293) was the first of two fourth-round draft picks (107th overall) selected by the 49ers in this year’s draft out of Oklahoma. He appeared in 47 games (10 starts) over four seasons at Oklahoma (2022-25) and finished with 84 tackles, 17.5 tackles for loss, 8.5 sacks, three forced fumbles and two passes defensed. In 2025, he appeared in 13 games (seven starts) and tallied 33 tackles, 7.0 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, two passes defensed and one forced fumble (returned for a TD), earning Second-Team All-SEC honors. In 2024, he appeared in 13 games (three starts) and recorded 30 tackles, 6.0 tackles for loss, 5.0 sacks and two forced fumbles. In 2023, he appeared in 11 games and tallied 11 tackles and 3.5 tackles for loss. As a true freshman in 2022, Halton appeared in 10 games and recorded 10 tackles and 1.0 tackle for loss.

A 22-year-old native of San Diego, CA, Halton attended St. Augustine (San Diego, CA) High School.

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Multiple people lose eyes, hands in illegal fireworks-related injuries in San Francisco

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1 day ago

July 7, 2026

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Multiple people lose eyes, hands in illegal fireworks-related injuries in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco emergency departments and first responders experienced a sharp increase in serious injuries over the Fourth of July weekend, with illegal fireworks and electric scooter crashes contributing to some of the busiest days in recent years.

At Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, medical teams treated a wave of patients suffering severe trauma. In one incident, bystanders rushed to help a person who was bleeding heavily after a hand injury. A 911 dispatcher described the call as “Extreme Trauma. Hand injury.”

Dr. Christopher Colwell, chief of emergency medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, said surgeons worked to treat patients with devastating injuries.

“We are able to do a lot with and sometimes save the function of the hand and eye. Unfortunately, there are injuries that exist every year where we are not able to do that even with the expertise that we have,” Colwell said.

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According to Dr. Colwell, four people lost eyes, five lost hands and at least 15 people suffered serious injuries related to electric scooters over the weekend.

“We saw a lot of electric scooter accidents. And I think part of it was that their traffic was such that that was a more efficient way of getting around town. But we also learned very clearly that the combination of electric scooters and how fast you can go in San Francisco, particularly going downhill along with not wearing a helmet and adding alcohol on board, is a really bad combination,” Colwell said.

ABC7’s data team reviewed San Francisco EMT data and found that medical incidents on July 4 and July 5 were about double the number reported during the same period in 2025.

Lt. Mariano Elias of the San Francisco Fire Department said emergency crews handled significantly more calls than usual.

“We had almost 200 more calls than we normally have so we had roughly 576 calls in a 24-hour period,” Elias said.

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Illegal fireworks activity also sparked fires across the city. Firefighters responded to Telegraph Hill, where crews quickly contained a blaze.

“We did have two house fires that night on the 4th of July, due to fireworks activities,” Elias said.

City officials estimated that more than 100,000 people were in San Francisco to watch Fourth of July fireworks, creating traffic congestion that complicated ambulance response efforts.

“All the gridlock between, people coming and going from, the Golden Gate Bridge. The city was very impacted on the streets. So that was an issue. The one particular ambulance did, involve themselves in an accident. So, someone hit the ambulance. So that patient had to be transported and moved to a different ambulance,” Elias said.

First responders warned that illegal fireworks activity typically continues for days after the Fourth of July and urged the public not to take unnecessary risks.

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