bridge detour is set up for Blue Line passengers to get around the closure until that station reopens. Okay, no more Big Macs or Quarter Pounders at the Stonestown Mall in San Francisco . After more than 30 years, the McDonald's has shut down. The owner says rising costs sparked his decision to close. Whatever the case here, people are caught off guard. Here's NBC's Sergio Quintana. For regular customers at the McDonald's at Stonestown Mall, seeing the popular restaurant closed today was the last thing they expected. This is a spot that everybody goes to. Everyone. Every time I come, it's always not just the kids, but everybody comes for the coffee just to sit down and talk. It's sad to see the gun, you know? Kids also enjoy fast food restaurant the Stonestown McDonald's closed yesterday and today it's literally being taken apart. Instead of placing their orders for Big Macs, fries or chicken McNuggets would be customers watched as a crew with the crane took the McDonald's M off the wall and restaurant equipment was walked out the door. In a statement posted on the door over the weekend, the franchise owner, Scott Roderick, wrote that employees of this restaurant were given the option to transfer to one of the other McDonald's he still operates, Roderick owns more than a dozen McDonald's across Northern California. We were not able to reach him today to talk about this closure, but he has been very vocal about the rising price of doing business in California. In an interview with CNBC last month, he described the challenges. It's not just wage, it's we're talking about massive insurance costs that have gone up in the state of California. If you can get it, government regulations that sometimes choke the life, blood and oxygen on a small business, entrepreneurship, obviously, back door costs have skyrocketed. Milk, eggs, the cost of beef, chicken. In published reports about this closure, Roderick has also said the leasing costs at Stonestown were also part of his decision to shut it down. A spokesperson at Stonestown was not available for an interview, but said in a statement we did try to negotiate with the tenant to the best of our abilities. We're looking forward to repurposing the space, the lease for the McDonald's expires at the end of this month. Customers we talked with said this was their go to spot for a reliable and inexpensive meal or a coffee. Alisa Diaz told me. She stops here about three times a week for a coffee after her workout. I asked where she's going to get coffee now. Te vas por café no voy a tomar, she says she's not going to drink coffee after the gym now because she's not going
