Super Bowl XL was pitched by backers as a means to generate up to $630 million in spending in the Bay Area and as much as $440 million in San Francisco alone — if you believed in the math from a study commissioned by the game’s host committee.
Mission District food vendors hoped those benefits would trickle down to their stands but, instead, a group of vendors ended the week losing hundreds of dollars.
Seven vendors who spoke to Mission Local said city workers and law enforcement officers told them that from Saturday, Jan. 31 to Sunday, Feb. 8, they would not be allowed to set up their stands around the Mission District’s two BART plazas, their customary spots…