where does this place post updates
Question · by new_year_runner_north · Member since Jul 2026 · 75 posts · 7w7 weeks ago
American restaurant in San Francisco, CA
4.3 · 3,983 reviewsOpens today at 7 AMOpens today at 7 AM
Local institution serving Swedish pancakes & classic diner standards amid nostalgic surroundings.
Eligible to offer 20% cashback to customers who shop here.OrbitBack
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Updated Sep 9, 2026Last activity 1 month ago, a question from new_year_runner_north.
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What Sears Fine Food offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
Sears Fine Food lists 8 services on its website. Here's each one, with how many reviews mention each.
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No code detected[Photo 4]When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Monday or Tuesday, before 8 AM.
Busiest Saturday from 9 AM to noon.
Golden Gate Tap Room is next door for a sports bar.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Oct 31, 2026.
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
Closed now. Busiest Sat, 9 AM to noon.
What reviews, press and directories say about Sears Fine Food.
4.3from 3,983 reviews on Google
While the restaurant boasts a historic charm and famous pancakes, inconsistent service and food quality leave many customers disappointed. Sears Fine Food offers a nostalgic dining experience with its vintage decor and classic diner atmosphere. However, customer experiences vary widely, with some enjoying the ambiance while others report significant service issues and food quality concerns.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
31 San Francisco avg
Signal and how much it countsSears Fine Food
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
Sears Fine Food, as AI sees it. Blue signals help Sears Fine Food, and red ones hold it back.
Claiming your page is free.
The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about Sears Fine Food. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · American restaurants in San Francisco, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 9, 2026.
Published September 9, 2026 · Updated September 9, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
Sears Fine Food is an american restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 34 of 100, which is poor.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | American restaurant |
| Address | 439 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 7 AM to 3 PM |
| Phone | (415) 986-0700 |
| Rating | 4.3 across 3,983 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Lunch |
| Quietest time | Monday |
| Updated | September 9, 2026 |
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 439 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Local institution serving Swedish pancakes & classic diner standards amid nostalgic surroundings. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Sears Fine Food | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 986-0700 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Available from sears fine food | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Call 415 986 0700 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Classic diner food | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Executive chef | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Get social | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Lunch | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Online food delivery | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Photo gallery | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Sears fine food since 1938 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Swedish pancakes | AI guess | |
| Links | https://www.facebook.com/searsfinefood | Confirmed | Business website | |
| Links | Website | http://www.searsfinefood.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
These are the 8 services Sears Fine Food offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.
| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lunch | From their website | |||
| Get social | From their website | |||
| Call 415 986 0700 | From their website | |||
| Online food delivery | From their website | |||
| Photo gallery | From their website | |||
| Available from sears fine food | From their website | |||
| Sears fine food since 1938 | From their website | |||
| Executive chef | From their website |
Address: 439 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA. Phone: (415) 986-0700. Hours: Mon to Sun 7 AM to 3 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "Local institution serving Swedish pancakes & classic diner standards amid nostalgic surroundings."
Quietest day: Monday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Gate Tap Room | Sports bar | 1 min walk |
| Impark - Sir Francis Drake Hotel Lot 304 | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
| The Post Room | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Powell St & Sutter St | Transit station | 1 min walk |
| Sutter St & Powell St | Transit station | 1 min walk |
| Fanoos Grills | Shawarma restaurant | 1 min walk |
4.3 average across 3,983 reviews: Google 3,983. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)
While the restaurant boasts a historic charm and famous pancakes, inconsistent service and food quality leave many customers disappointed. (AI guess, from 3,983 reviews.)
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco american restaurants run 24 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Sears Fine Food scores 34, above the San Francisco average of 31. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Sears Fine Food |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 6 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 59 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | ||
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 54 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about an american restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sears Fine Food | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.searsfinefood.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city | City Sears Fine Food is in | |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the american restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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Title, description, canonical, robots and Open Graph tags. This is what shows in search results and link previews.
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# Sears Fine Food, San Francisco CA: Lunch Prices & Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/sears-fine-food-san-francisco-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-09. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/sears-fine-food-san-francisco-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short Sears Fine Food is an american restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 34 of 100, which is poor. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | American restaurant | | Address | 439 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sun 7 AM to 3 PM | | Phone | (415) 986-0700 | | Rating | 4.3 across 3,983 reviews on Google | | Known for | Lunch | | Quietest time | Monday | | Updated | September 9, 2026 | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 439 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | Local institution serving Swedish pancakes & classic diner standards amid nostalgic surroundings. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | Sears Fine Food | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (415) 986-0700 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | Available from sears fine food | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Call 415 986 0700 | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Classic diner food | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Executive chef | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Get social | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Lunch | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Online food delivery | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Photo gallery | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Sears fine food since 1938 | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Swedish pancakes | AI guess | | | Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/searsfinefood | Confirmed | Business website | | Links | Website | http://www.searsfinefood.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices These are the 8 services Sears Fine Food offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Lunch | | | | From their website | | Get social | | | | From their website | | Call 415 986 0700 | | | | From their website | | Online food delivery | | | | From their website | | Photo gallery | | | | From their website | | Available from sears fine food | | | | From their website | | Sears fine food since 1938 | | | | From their website | | Executive chef | | | | From their website | ### Known for - Lunch: 20% of reviews (AI guess) ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting Sears Fine Food Address: 439 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA. Phone: (415) 986-0700. Hours: Mon to Sun 7 AM to 3 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "Local institution serving Swedish pancakes & classic diner standards amid nostalgic surroundings." ### When to go Quietest day: Monday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Golden Gate Tap Room | Sports bar | 1 min walk | | Impark - Sir Francis Drake Hotel Lot 304 | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | The Post Room | Restaurant | 1 min walk | | Powell St & Sutter St | Transit station | 1 min walk | | Sutter St & Powell St | Transit station | 1 min walk | | Fanoos Grills | Shawarma restaurant | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 4.3 average across 3,983 reviews: Google 3,983. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.) While the restaurant boasts a historic charm and famous pancakes, inconsistent service and food quality leave many customers disappointed. (AI guess, from 3,983 reviews.) ### What people like - Famous 18 Swedish pancakes with lingonberries - Delicious omelettes - Historic diner atmosphere ### What people do not like - Service is often slow and unresponsive - Food quality inconsistent and overpriced - Communication issues with reservations ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Get listed in directories so AI can tell you're real ## Questions people ask ### where does this place post updates ### rough idea what Sears Fine Food costs? ### best american restaurant in San Francisco ### anything I should sort out before a first visit at Sears Fine Food? ### Whereabouts is this place? ### What american restaurant questions is San Francisco asking AI most? ### walk in at Sears Fine Food in San Francisco, or is it appointment only? ### Worth the hype at Sears Fine Food? ### points or member pricing here, worth signing up? ### opening hours here, what are they these days? ### trying to avoid the rush, which day is quiet ### how much is a first visit around here ### anywhere cheaper than Sears Fine Food in San Francisco that is still good? ### killing time on Powell, any ideas ### is there a common complaint here ### any last minute tables here? ### the good stuff about Sears Fine Food, what is it? ### Sears Fine Food or Wayfare Tavern? ## The AI Score: 34 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco american restaurants run 24 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Sears Fine Food scores 34, above the San Francisco average of 31. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Sears Fine Food | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 6 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor | | Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 59 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 54 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about an american restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Sears Fine Food | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Sears Fine Food | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.searsfinefood.com/ | Subject of this page | | San Francisco, California | City | #city | | City Sears Fine Food is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the american restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best american restaurants in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/american-restaurant - Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco ### Nearby - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view - /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJlW39lY6AhYAR-kYSJfvNY6A (accessed Sep 9, 2026) - [2] searsfinefood.com, https://www.searsfinefood.com/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] searsfinefood.com, https://www.searsfinefood.com/executive-chef (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [4] searsfinefood.com, https://www.searsfinefood.com/menu/lunch (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [5] searsfinefood.com, https://www.searsfinefood.com/photo-gallery (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [6] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 31, 2026; ChatGPT and Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 31, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [7] searsfinefood.com, http://www.searsfinefood.com/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · American restaurants in San Francisco, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>Sears Fine Food, San Francisco CA: Lunch Prices & Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 9, 2026.</p>
<p>Published September 9, 2026 · Updated September 9, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
</header>
<section id="ai-in-short">
<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Sears Fine Food is an american restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 34 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-key-facts">
<h3>Key facts</h3>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Type</td><td>American restaurant</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>439 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sun 7 AM to 3 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(415) 986-0700</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.3 across 3,983 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Known for</td><td>Lunch</td></tr>
<tr><td>Quietest time</td><td>Monday</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>September 9, 2026</td></tr>
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</section>
<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>439 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>Local institution serving Swedish pancakes & classic diner standards amid nostalgic surroundings.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sun 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Sears Fine Food</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(415) 986-0700</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>7:00 AM to 3:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>7:00 AM to 3:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>7:00 AM to 3:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>7:00 AM to 3:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>7:00 AM to 3:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>7:00 AM to 3:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>7:00 AM to 3:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Available from sears fine food</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Call 415 986 0700</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Classic diner food</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Executive chef</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Get social</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Lunch</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Online food delivery</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Photo gallery</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Sears fine food since 1938</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Swedish pancakes</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Facebook</td><td>https://www.facebook.com/searsfinefood</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>http://www.searsfinefood.com/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<p>These are the 8 services Sears Fine Food offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Service</th><th scope="col">Price</th><th scope="col">Price mark</th><th scope="col">Price evidence</th><th scope="col">Service mark</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Lunch</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Get social</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Call 415 986 0700</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Online food delivery</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Photo gallery</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Available from sears fine food</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sears fine food since 1938</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Executive chef</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
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<h4>Known for</h4>
<ul>
<li>Lunch: 20% of reviews (AI guess)</li>
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<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
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<section id="ai-visiting-sears-fine-food">
<h3>Visiting Sears Fine Food</h3>
<p>Address: 439 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA. Phone: (415) 986-0700. Hours: Mon to Sun 7 AM to 3 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "Local institution serving Swedish pancakes & classic diner standards amid nostalgic surroundings."</p>
<h4>When to go</h4>
<p>Quietest day: Monday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Golden Gate Tap Room</td><td>Sports bar</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Impark - Sir Francis Drake Hotel Lot 304</td><td>Parking lot</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>The Post Room</td><td>Restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Powell St & Sutter St</td><td>Transit station</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sutter St & Powell St</td><td>Transit station</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Fanoos Grills</td><td>Shawarma restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
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</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.3 average across 3,983 reviews: Google 3,983. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)</p>
<p>While the restaurant boasts a historic charm and famous pancakes, inconsistent service and food quality leave many customers disappointed. (AI guess, from 3,983 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Famous 18 Swedish pancakes with lingonberries</li>
<li>Delicious omelettes</li>
<li>Historic diner atmosphere</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Service is often slow and unresponsive</li>
<li>Food quality inconsistent and overpriced</li>
<li>Communication issues with reservations</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
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<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>where does this place post updates</h4>
<h4>rough idea what Sears Fine Food costs?</h4>
<h4>best american restaurant in San Francisco</h4>
<h4>anything I should sort out before a first visit at Sears Fine Food?</h4>
<h4>Whereabouts is this place?</h4>
<h4>What american restaurant questions is San Francisco asking AI most?</h4>
<h4>walk in at Sears Fine Food in San Francisco, or is it appointment only?</h4>
<h4>Worth the hype at Sears Fine Food?</h4>
<h4>points or member pricing here, worth signing up?</h4>
<h4>opening hours here, what are they these days?</h4>
<h4>trying to avoid the rush, which day is quiet</h4>
<h4>how much is a first visit around here</h4>
<h4>anywhere cheaper than Sears Fine Food in San Francisco that is still good?</h4>
<h4>killing time on Powell, any ideas</h4>
<h4>is there a common complaint here</h4>
<h4>any last minute tables here?</h4>
<h4>the good stuff about Sears Fine Food, what is it?</h4>
<h4>Sears Fine Food or Wayfare Tavern?</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 34 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco american restaurants run 24 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Sears Fine Food scores 34, above the San Francisco average of 31. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Sears Fine Food</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>25</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>40</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>6</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>78</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>59</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>90</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td></td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>54</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
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<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about an american restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business</p>
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<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Sears Fine Food</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Sears Fine Food</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>http://www.searsfinefood.com/</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>San Francisco, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City Sears Fine Food is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
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<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the american restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best american restaurants in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/american-restaurant</li>
<li>Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
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<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
<li>/los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view</li>
<li>/santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJlW39lY6AhYAR-kYSJfvNY6A (accessed Sep 9, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] searsfinefood.com, https://www.searsfinefood.com/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[3] searsfinefood.com, https://www.searsfinefood.com/executive-chef (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[4] searsfinefood.com, https://www.searsfinefood.com/menu/lunch (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[5] searsfinefood.com, https://www.searsfinefood.com/photo-gallery (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[6] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 31, 2026; ChatGPT and Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 31, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[7] searsfinefood.com, http://www.searsfinefood.com/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)</li>
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