Cate Peters, Brianna Sosa, Gabrielle Rayne Ignacio, Anna Hoch-Kenney and Tatiana Geroulanou, Big Local News
For decades, lunchtime at Roy Mejia’s downtown Oakland bar meant a steady stream of Kaiser Permanente workers.
Doctors, nurses and office staff from nearby buildings would stop in for a soda or a sandwich.
“They’d come in, have a soda, bring a sandwich,” recalled Mejia, adding that he was “surrounded by Kaiser.” “We all got along. It was beautiful.”…