ABOUT GGRA
The Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA) is a non-profit trade association founded in 1936 to promote, extend and protect the interests of the broader restaurant industry, and to serve our members in the San Francisco Bay Area. Restaurants are a high-risk and generally low-profit-margin enterprise undertaken by people passionate about a wonderful cultural tradition: eating out. GGRA is a resource to help our members keep the doors open and tables set.
Information, Cost Savings, Marketing, Education, Political Advocacy
- Inform you of important industry issues through newsletters, website, seminars
- Reduce operating costs through group purchases and energy management
- Showcase members through events like SFChefsFoodWine
- Deliver compliance information for new and existing government regulation
- Network within the restaurant industry
- Most importantly, when it comes to laws that affect your business and the people you employ, we bring your concerns directly to the people in City Hall and Sacramento.
Three types of membership and 800 member locations
- Regular: restaurants, caterers, bars and taverns
- Associate: businesses supplying goods and services to the restaurant industry
- Affiliate: associations and educational institutions
Governance
The Association is governed by a Board of Directors elected annually by the membership at large. The work of the association is done by the staff and committees appointed by the Board of Directors. Standing committees include Executive, Membership, Finance, Public Affairs and Education. Ad hoc committees include SFChefs, Golf and Nomination. The GGRA Scholarship Foundation, is a 501 (c)(3) and provides annual scholarships to students seeking degrees in culinary or hospitality programs.
