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San Francisco Officials Are Planning To Ban Corporate Cafeterias, Force Tech Workers To Eat Out At Local Restaurants (nytimes.com)
"According to The New York Times, San Francisco officials are planning to ban corporate cafeterias to force tech workers to eat out at local eateries," writes Slashdot reader The Original CDR. Here's an excerpt from the report: Two San Francisco supervisors introduced an ordinance last week that would forbid employee cafeterias in new corporate construction. It is not clear whether the measure will pass, but it is a direct attack on one of the modern tech industry's most entrenched traditions. The ordinance, which seeks to force tech workers out of their subsidized cafeterias and into neighborhood restaurants, is the latest attempt by San Francisco leaders to make the tech companies that are migrating north from Silicon Valley adapt to life in the city.
"These tech companies have decided to leave their suburban campuses because their employees want to be in the city, and yet the irony is, they come to the city and are creating isolated, walled-off campuses," said Aaron Peskin, a city supervisor who is co-sponsoring the bill with Ahsha Safai. "This is not against these folks, it's for them. It's to integrate them into the community." Mr. Peskin's ordinance is also aimed at getting more out of a tax deal given to tech companies that would agree to move into a troubled area called Mid-Market. In 2011, the companies were given tax breaks on payroll and stock options with the hope that they would bring jobs and investment to the neighborhood, just a short walk from San Francisco's City Hall. Within a few years, a number of companies like Twitter, Square and Uber moved into Mid-Market. But despite initial excitement over the opening of a number of restaurants and shops, the neighborhood has not yet flourished the way many had hoped. Further reading: San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle
"These tech companies have decided to leave their suburban campuses because their employees want to be in the city, and yet the irony is, they come to the city and are creating isolated, walled-off campuses," said Aaron Peskin, a city supervisor who is co-sponsoring the bill with Ahsha Safai. "This is not against these folks, it's for them. It's to integrate them into the community." Mr. Peskin's ordinance is also aimed at getting more out of a tax deal given to tech companies that would agree to move into a troubled area called Mid-Market. In 2011, the companies were given tax breaks on payroll and stock options with the hope that they would bring jobs and investment to the neighborhood, just a short walk from San Francisco's City Hall. Within a few years, a number of companies like Twitter, Square and Uber moved into Mid-Market. But despite initial excitement over the opening of a number of restaurants and shops, the neighborhood has not yet flourished the way many had hoped. Further reading: San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle
Would y'all please stop? We already have to many of your people in Texas now... This will only bring more of them! ;) (Just kidding... Y'all come on. Just remember why you left...)
Sounds exactly like the liberal paradise they all wanted. Always makes me think of this meme https://pics.me.me/wants-more-...
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
They should all have to get to work in rickshaws, too, and buy their shoes from local cobblers.
You are obviously being sarcastic, but if you put your proposal on the ballot, it is likely that many SF voters would support it.
The cobbler bill receives full support from the brownie union. It is unclear whether the SF Pixie trade union will support.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Wait - shoe cobbler? Damn it... Here I was all ready to support the peach cobbler mandate!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
"Welcome to the Restaurant Extragavanza. Do you have any reservations?"
"Well, since you asked, the wine list looks a bit pricy and the wallpaper looks a bit tacky."
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To be fair, his spelling was as close to faeces as yours.
Both shit.
Well fuck-a-roo, you read in a paper somewhere so.....
Yeah, lets mandate public school attendance.. I mean, fuck freedom... We've got a public school problem so lets just mandate attendance.. Having the freedom to choose where you want to send your kids to school, well that can take a fucking backseat to your needs/wants.
I live in an area where avoiding horse dung is a weekly occurrence on my morning dog walks. Horse crap ain't got nothing on human. I would put my face into a pile of horse crap and take a deep breath if it meant I didn't have to deal with the horrors I have had to smell in the bathroom at work.
The only time horse crap gets bad is when they mix it with horse piss and it starts getting that strong ammonia smell about it, and then it's really more just the smell of ammonia burning your nostrils.