Trey Anastasio of Phish, Billy Strings and Sturgill Simpson were among the special guests to join the band over three nights of concert and amid a city-wide celebration.

W hen you walk out the exits of a major concert at Golden Gate Park onto 30th Avenue, usually you hear a chorus of vendors hawking steaming-hot bacon-wrapped hot dogs. But this weekend after the Dead & Company shows, the calls were something entirely different: "ice cold fatties."

The Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary celebration is doing more than drawing tens of thousands of fans to Golden Gate Park — it's breathing new life into San Francisco's hotel industry.