A Pakistani restaurant has become one of the latest to leave the struggling San Francisco Centre mall, where dwindling visitors and major store departures have left the 1.5 million-square-foot mall practically vacant.
Mashaallah Halal Pakistani Food, run by owners Mohammad and Rabia Waqar, shut its doors after three years in the food court, joining Sarku Japan, which departed on Sept. 25, and Charley’s Philly Steaks, which is set to close this week. The moves leave just two restaurants—Panda Express and Shake Shack—in the once bustling mall’s food court.
The property faces a foreclosure auction on Oct. 2 after owners Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) defaulted and handed control to a receiver. Waqar learned of the full shutdown plans only recently, after he had already signed a lease at a nearby location as part of his restaurant’s expansion….