http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/technology/daily-report-how-tech-is-sapping-the-silicon-valley-food-scene.html 2016-09-20 10:05:11 Daily Report: How Tech Is Sapping the Silicon Valley Food Scene Some California cities are fed up with cash-flush tech enterprises and want them to go away. Now that ripple effect has reached the area’s once-bustling restaurant industry. === Silicon Valley has disrupted many industries worldwide in the last few decades, but what is less talked about is how much it has also disrupted itself. With all the jobs and riches brought by tech companies in Silicon Valley, The ripple effects have also reached Silicon Valley’s local restaurant industry, There, she found that with tech companies luring away chefs and restaurant workers as well as more start-ups pushing up local rents, many restaurants could no longer keep afloat. More than 70,000 square feet of Palo Alto restaurant and retail space was lost to offices from 2008 to 2015, she writes. The changes don’t mean people will starve, but the character of Silicon Valley is transforming. What’s left are often national restaurant chains, well-heeled restaurants funded by venture capitalists and fewer of the mom-and-pop operations that once gave Silicon Valley towns like Palo Alto a distinct local flavor.