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The only thing I can think of in San Francisco was the Red Vic where they didn't serve meals last I heard, but they have couches and you get popcorn in a bowl. Part of the issue in San Francisco is that every neighborhood used to have a theatre, and they closed left and right as more multiplex theatres were built. Some were demolished and others have been retooled. I loved as a teen we could see any movie we wanted because it was playing at some theatre just a bus ride away with good food in the neighborhood. A lot of the theatres were very ornate in design and architecture, and some are historic landmarks and have festivals or show independent films.
If the multiplex boom hadn't come in the 1990s we'd probably have independent theatres with food. Frankly San Francisco is full of foodies and a lot of people don't do a lot of chain type restaurants so I can see why AMC would have issues separate from real estate. They have thirty screens within a mile of each other and more just across the city line in the suburbs. If there was an independent restaurant with a theatre and not an AMC one, perhaps it would be popular.
My favorite theatre with food is in Anchorage, the Bear's Tooth. It is a movie theatre with food for your seats, a cafe, a restaurant, and they make their own beer. They have a second restaurant, mostly pizza, called the Moose's Tooth and you can't beat $3.50 even though the beer is expensive. They also have the best ice cream ever, from Fairbanks, which saves a six hour drive. It is also used as a concert venue which is nice because you can sit and eat nachos.
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