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Nightlife: Worker-Owned and Employee-Owned in the Bay Area

One bar, and it is the Stud. 1 Bay Area businesses owned by the people who work there.

Worker-Owned Businesses

One bar, and it is the Stud. 1 businesses, each owned by the people who work there. Information verified September 2026; call ahead for hours.

San Francisco

  • The Stud Worker cooperativeThe historic queer bar, owned since 2016 by a collective of about eighteen workers and community members, reopened on Folsom in 2024.San Francisco, SoMa

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