Stop the Presses! Or Whatever! Our First Blind Item!!!

We came late to this because we always save Leah Garchik for the bus ride home. Lo and behold, we have a (admittedly tame) blind item! Since we have no Nick Denton equivalent here on the Barbary Coast, we'd like to ask for your guesses. Email the editor and your confidentiality is assured.

"That chic South of Market restaurant's doing fine with customers but not so well with the staff. At least two food servers are gone, I hear, because the boss asked whether they were amenable to being spanked."

Of course it had to be a restauranteur. Who knows some waiters, owners or cooks in SOMA? We're dying to know! And if you're the staff in question, we know lawyers. We'll post the likely candidates later today.