They get health care benefits now. This is a major victory for them versus in any other city.

You have to look at the REALLY big picture. There's a reason I kept mentioning only small businesses and not specifically restaurants in general. Large corp restaurants likely already offer benefits or could absorb the cost of providing it. It's the small mom and pops that can't. Also, there's rent control in this City. This means newer businesses are at a severe disadvantage compared to older ones. It's not so simple as seeing all the cheap/bad ones go out of business and having good ones who incorporate higher prices and benefits moving in. The new ones still have to compete with the prices of the older stores, yet have dramatically higher costs. I know a few families who started businesses in SF and what the owners ended up taking home was scarily small in many cases. The risks and hurdles of running a restaurant in SF are much higher than in many other cities. When they fail, sorry, but ALL the employees lose their jobs too. They can't all be fancy places with high prices providing larger profit margins.

I'm not sure how many members on this board can see that. Majority seem to be frequent flyers which I'm gonna assume means they're not running small mom & pop retail establishments.