San Francisco Considering Banning Employee Cafeterias

The problem with this idea, apart from the aforementioned subsidized meals in workplace cafeterias which some people rely on who are on basic salaries, is that to allow enough time for staff to get out of the building and down the street to a restaurant, employers will have to extend the length of the lunch breaks. Also I would further hazard that if this were to be implemented, the nearby restaurants would barely gain from it other than from those higher salaried employees simply because the lower paid would just bring food from home, and find themselves a park bench to sit outside and eat..
 
WhatInThe said:
San Francisco is considering banning employee cafeterias in new office buildings for now. Looks like nothing more but an attempt to "reinvigorate" the local restaurant industry.

They won't ban pooping in public but want to ban eating in the workplace???
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I've never worked in a place that had a cafeteria, just a regular break room with a refrigerator to keep your food until you eat it and a coffee pot. If you wanted something else, you had to rush out and get it from a fast food place, and eat it in your car to save time.

I heard about the public pooping in the news, disgusting. If they can't get those people into shelters, then they need to provide bathrooms for them, even if it's Porto-Johns scattered around those areas. Surprised they let such a health hazard get so out of control in SF, maybe just give out poo-bags like they do at the dog park, and just provide a trash can for them on every corner. I bet if someone lets their Retriever relieve himself on the sidewalk and doesn't pick it up, they are fined heavily.
 
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During my corporate career, my company had a huge cafeteria and dining hall that had a wonderful variety of food cooked on site and served during breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks. The food was great and reasonably priced. My favorites were the scrambled eggs and huge biscuits they made from scratch during breakfast and veal parmigiana they would sometimes make at lunch. Every year at Christmastime the company served a free turkey, dressing and all the trimmings lunch to all employees. They even put red tablecloths and candles on the tables. That in addition to all the other perks and benefits the company provided is why I loved working there.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I've never worked in a place that had a cafeteria, just a regular break room with a refrigerator to keep your food until you eat it and a coffee pot. If you wanted something else, you had to rush out and get it from a fast food place, and eat it in your car to save time.

I heard about the public pooping in the news, disgusting. If they can't get those people into shelters, then they need to provide bathrooms for them, even if it's Porto-Johns scattered around those areas. Surprised they let such a health hazard get so out of control in SF, maybe just give out poo-bags like they do at the dog park, and just provide a trash can for them on every corner. I bet if someone lets their Retriever relieve himself on the sidewalk and doesn't pick it up, they are fined heavily.
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Per Orwell's Animal Farm... "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
 
San Francisco seems to have all sorts of "issues". Not having a place for employees to have lunch, on site, will certainly cause problems for the employees...and probably reduced productivity for the companies involved. Somehow, nothing about SF seems to moving in the right direction....these reports about large numbers of homeless using the city streets as their toilet should be getting the locals attention....unless they are becoming brain dead.
 
Didn't SF already ban large size sodas (or was that NYC) and just last night I saw on the news that they're proposing to ban straws. Lot's of gov't control there.
 
As several have noted workplace cafeterias are as much about time and workplace efficiency as much as anything. The average company give one hour for lunch. That includes travel and actually eating getting cleaned up etc. I've had jobs where the bosses would come to your work location at 11:55 or 1:05 to make sure they weren't losing any productivity and employees weren't stealing(time) from the company. Others one has to clock in n out meals. Also there is a school of thought that if one goes out for lunch to places other than Micky Ds etc they might be tempted to drink.

Throw in things like pay and 100% availability during work hours cafaterias are here to stay and have zero problem with them. I used to get a great/cheap breakfastes as others have noted, they can't be beat and it's fresh not in a wax wrapper or disposable container.

And laws like this tend to come from an industry that will benefit. In some states they require car inspections which means a driver must go to a mechanic once year needed or not. Others have strict codes on things like curbs so a mason or a paving company gets constant work. Alot of states have mandatory insurance requirements that keep underwriters and brokers in business. It's not all about safety or the betterment of society it's about greed.
 
KingsX said:
Per Orwell's Animal Farm... "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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Violation of privately held property where no crime is taking place? And "more equal" citizens influencing city government. What a strange law to set up, unless it fits neatly Orwell's predictions. Wow, KingsX, you nailed it!
Creepy...creeping...:(
 
I'm all for the nuts in my home state reducing straws, plastic. Anything to help. This is dumb. People can eat how they want. I prefer to bring my lunch to work. San Francisco has turned into a mess. It's a world famous city, now practically inhabitable in my opinion. And people pay insane prices to live there.
 
All my working life the only employees that routinely went out to eat lunch in a restaurant were the upper echelon. Lower level employees can't afford it, so they'll just bring their lunch.

It's almost impossible to get out to a restaurant, order, receive your food and eat it and then get back to your office in an hour, anyway.
 
Butterfly said:
All my working life the only employees that routinely went out to eat lunch in a restaurant were the upper echelon. Lower level employees can't afford it, so they'll just bring their lunch.

It's almost impossible to get out to a restaurant, order, receive your food and eat it and then get back to your office in an hour, anyway.
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True, though I do see so many at work that make less hourly wage than me go out for lunch. We only get 1/2 hour. I don't want the rush. Though I have noted some will clock back in after going out and getting food and then sit and eat it on work time.
 
Moars Cafeteria San Francisco, California
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