"A line of quiet individuals had already started to form outside the lower level entrance to the Park Branch Library in San Francisco well before the doors opened at 1:30 p.m. on a recent Saturday. One held a black KitchenAid mixer. Another carried an answering machine.

Such was the scene outside the Haight-Nopa Repair Café, held every other month since October 2025. The concept of a Repair Café is simple: In an age of disposable consumer products and planned obsolescence, people bring their broken household items to get fixed. Despite the event series’ consistent popularity across Europe, and the fact that repair has had its own international commemoration day for a decade, the Haight-Nopa outpost is San Francisco’s first Repair Café."

Full article: San Francisco’s First Repair Café Connects Mending-Minded Neighbors