nkedel;

I'm not just addressing this in North America, but also on an international level.

I do appreciate your informed insight on US federal, versus state regulations, which apparently vary state to state.

Elsewhere I have read ( when I could not sleep ) rather long legal treaties on the specific situation in San Francisco. There is still much on this topic in the internet news.

Correct me if I am wrong, but my reading was that the restaurant owners were including a fee or tax onto each bill for employees, that they were caught keeping as profit. I thought the District Attorney found a few guilty of that.

Was that not the case ?