Though she had a background studying women and gender studies, all she could find for work was a job at one of Haight’s many clothing stores. She’d lived in Germany and Belgium, but her English was too poor to get any kind of support to go abroad. She remembers her first days in San Francisco, arriving when she was 22 after a friend encouraged her to drop her bartending job in their home country and join him. “But people should know how bad it can be.” “I love this place because a homeless person can sit next to a priest,” Fischer said. She said a customer intervened and scared the assailant away. About a month ago a man harassed Fischer just outside Pork Store’s enormous glass windows. Haight has been under pressure during the last few months: A number of shootings, one fatal, happened just a half block from Fischer’s place of work. But this triumphant feeling, one of confidence and family, has been hard-earned for Fischer. Alternating between a 16-ounce paper cup of coffee and an apple, the San Francisco industry vet takes to-go orders over the phone while writing down staples she’ll order for the restaurant before closing. Now, as omicron cases dwindle and diners return to restaurants, Fischer can say she’s made it. The other women were like, ‘She’s not gonna make it.’” “It was absolute culture shock,” Fischer said. In the years since then, she’s become a legend in San Francisco’s service scene. Coming from Luxembourg in 2013, she learned to read English from the restaurant’s butter-stained menus. Haight Street’s Pork Store Cafe, a destination diner since 1979, offers a different kind of communion to its community - and that includes Lynn Fischer, a server of eight years who’s been running the show. It’s not a typical church, though there is a priest sitting at the counter drinking coffee. At 8:30 in the morning, Whitney Houston’s voice brings everyone to church.
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