. >> good afternoon, i am jerry helmick. this is a short story.t about this meeting this morning when i went for coffee. my father was in the military. when we grew up we moved every two or three years. i joined the u.s. department of state and moved every two or three years. getting to feel at home has been something that i have not really experienced until i moved to san francisco. my daughter lived next to the white tower. my son-in-law used to go there are for coffee and we started going there. we have been going there seven years. this is the one place in san francisco where we feel at home. elias and his staff are part of that. i have been to different small businesses around the world. this one i will travel for coffee, and we lived near caltrain station. it is quite a jog for us. it is a great business. i hope that you can grant their request. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> commissioners, i am richard silver. before i was a customer of caffe sapore. he was a customer of mine. i was in the wholesale baking business in san