SF Politics Newsom Team Does Quick Cleanup After Story, Says Panera Bread Not Exempt From Minimum Wage Law After a Bloomberg story suggested Governor Gavin Newsom was guilty of cronyism in carving out an exception for a friend to California's minimum-wage law, his team has come out swinging and he's issued a vehement denial.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newsom Catches Flack For Exception to Minimum Wage Law That Seems to Exempt Panera Bread Chain California's new minimum-wage law for fast-food restaurants, which takes effect April 1, seems to not apply to Panera Bread or the handful of other chains that bake and serve their own loaves of bread. Wonder why?
SF News How Much Did the Average SF City Employee Make in 2021? Around $127K During the 2020-2021 fiscal year, thousands of people were employed by San Francisco. The lowest-earning among them made a bit more than $36k during that period, while the highest earner pulled in $602K. But collectively, the average SF City employee earned roughly $127K last year.
SF News Minimum Wage Just Went Up in San Francisco. But Is it Enough? San Francisco's minimum wage increased to $16.32 on Thursday — $0.25 more than it previously was at $16.07. However, given the city's high cost of living, which remains disproportionately more than what's seen elsewhere in the country, it's by no means on par with a "living wage."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Study Links Yelp Ratings With SF Restaurant Closures A new study by a pair of Harvard Business School researchers, focusing on Bay Area restaurants between 2008 and 2016, found that minimum wage hikes do indeed impact restaurants' ability to stay in
SF News Day Around The Bay: 900 Rally At SFO For Living Wages Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. At least 900 people rallied at SFO today to
SF News Uber Drivers To Join Nationwide Living-Wage Strike Tuesday San Francisco Uber drivers are gearing up for a strike tomorrow as part of a nationwide labor-protest seeking a livable wage. Reuters reports that the action is being organized by Fight For $15,
SF News SF's Minimum Wage Goes Up To $13 An Hour Today Thanks to voters' passage of Proposition J in 2014, San Francisco's minimum wage increased 75 cents today from $12.25 to $13. ABC 7 reports that this increase is one step in the
SF News Airbnb Reportedly In Talks With Labor Union, Will Endorse 'Fight For $15' Airbnb's ongoing bid for respectability appears to be taking another step forward, with The Washington Post reporting today that the home-renting company has approached a major international union with the hopes of forming
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Tip-Pooling, Why It's Questionably Legal, And Why SF Restaurateurs Are Doing It Over the weekend the Chronicle's Jonathan Kauffman took a deep dive into the topic of tip-pooling, explaining how California is now one of seven states that have a universal minimum wage that applies
SF News California Becomes First State To Pledge Minimum Wage Hike To $15/Hour (By 2022) Leading a charge that is expected to ripple across the country, California governor Jerry Brown and the state legislature struck a deal Monday to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 per hour
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Roosevelt Tamale Parlor Set To Close This Sunday After 93 Years On 24th Street Photo via Instagram. After nearly a century years in business, it seems time is finally up for Roosevelt Tamale Parlor. An announcement posted to the exterior of the restaurant claimed that the one-two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Chipotle Burrito Bowl Just Got More Expensive Because Of The Minimum Wage Hike Chipotle fans in San Francisco are going to notice that prices across the menu have risen about 10 percent in an unannounced move that one equity research report attributes to the recent minimum
SF News SF Now Has The Highest Minimum Wage In The Country Today's the day San Francisco catches up with Oakland! As of Friday, SF's minimum wage rises from 11.05 to $12.25 an hour, which means the city now joins Oakland as having
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Udupi Palace Owes $112k In Back Wages For Failure To Pay Overtime Udupi Palace, the popular southern Indian restaurant with San Francisco and Berkeley locations known for dosa and vegetarian fare, has been under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor. The department's finding,
SF News Borderlands Books Owner Again Blames Closure On Minimum Wage, Not Amazon Though he mentioned the problems posed by e-readers and Amazon in his initial statements on the impending closure of Borderlands Books, owner Alan Beatts would now like everyone to know that the real
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Survey Says SF Bartenders And Servers Make More Money Than Anywhere Else According to a new survey conducted by a Seattle-based firm, San Francisco restaurant and bar workers are doing a fair bit better than their New York City counterparts, unless the people in New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yank Sing Owners Pay $4 Million In Back Pay To Workers The owners of the ever popular dim sum destination Yank Sing, which between its two locations employs 280 people, have agreed to pay $4 million in back pay and benefits to its workers
SF News SF's Minimum Wage Will Rise To $11.05 This January According to a press release sent by Mayor Ed Lee's office Thursday night, San Francisco's current minimum wage of $10.74 per hour will rise to $11.05 per hour as of January
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Christina Hendricks in 'Modern Office' Modern Office with Christina Hendricks from Funny Or Die Someone over at Funny or Die, or at least some of their contributors, are dead set on using viral videos to fight for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs Respond To Minimum Wage Hike: 'Get Ready For the $25 Burger' Remember that awful billboard? Well, Zagat went around asking San Francisco chefs and restaurant owners how they're planning to deal with the all-but-inevitable minimum wage hike that's going on the November ballot, and
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kristin Bell As Minimum-Wage Mary Poppins Funny or Die returns with another Disney parody (remember Princess Ke$ha?), this time with Kristin Bell as a disgruntled Mary Poppins, quitting her nanny gig because she's living below the poverty line.
SF News Billboard Warns Workers They'll Be Replaced With iPads If They Demand Higher Minimum Wage A billboard just appeared in downtown San Francisco, sponsored by conservatives and with the blessing of the restaurant industry, showing an iPad along with copy that says, "San Francisco: Meet your minimum wage
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Willie Brown: 'Waiters Don't Need A Higher Minimum Wage' (Unless They Work At Subway) Apparently, it's not just restaurant and bar owners that are fretting over the impact an increase in minimum wage might have on business! Former San Francisco mayor, now alleged lobbyist and SF Chronicle
SF News San Francisco's Proposed $15 Minimum Wage, By The Numbers Last week, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee introduced a proposed measure that, if approved by voters in November, would gradually bump San Francisco’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by July 2018.
