Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Progressives try their best to kill the goose that laid the golden egg

In an hours-long City Hall hearing yesterday to address the state of SF restaurants, chefs and business owners described an industry experiencing death by a thousand cuts. Pointing to wide-ranging issues — hefty permitting fees and a slow inspection process; nearly insurmountable minimum wage and healthcare costs; employee retention difficulties amid soaring rents and poor public transit options; and increased competition and costs from online delivery — restaurateurs pleaded with City Supervisors to make changes, and quickly.




One potential change discussed at the hearing would help Flore right away: Waiving the cafe’s yearly permitting fees for outdoor sidewalk seating, which rose from $2,365 in 2013 to $4,338 in 2018, according to Alan.

Typical government.  A demand that you ask their permission before you do anything, and pay dearly to ask at all.  This attitude has permeated our society until nothing can be done without some bureaucrats ok, and until your check clears, and we all just accept the idea that this behavior is normal.

San Francisco’s 5,200 restaurants generate $4.7 billion in taxable sales to the city and provide for 65,000 jobs in SF, restaurant industry veteran and Golden Gate Restaurant Association representative Laurie Thomas told Supervisors in her remarks yesterday. But based on her numbers, garnered through Yelp, restaurant closures have begun to outpace openings by nine percent. “We’re seeing a troubling trend,” said Thomas, who owns Rose’s Cafe in Cow Hollow, but whose North Beach restaurant, Rose Pistolaclosed in 2017 after 21 years in business.

4 comments:

  1. nope, not even if it caused the tourists to go elsewhere would the bureaucrats give up one iota of the power they believe they justly deserve to wield over the SF business owners-those slave drivers.

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  2. I have the occasional thought that Civil War II, when it starts, will start in California.

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  3. I'm sure the city council laughed and in returned asked the owners to stop serving salt, paper napkin, and water at the tables. The homeless issue has scared away tourists and conventions if not then it is only a matter of time.

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  4. "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."

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