Protect San Jose

Restaurants

The Costly Restaurant Ordinance would:

  • Jeopardize the Survival of Local Restaurants
  • Increase Food Prices
  • Threaten Jobs

Ask your City Councilmember to Oppose the Costly Restaurant Ordinance

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Brian H. - Local Restaurant Owner - San Jose Brian H. - Local Restaurant Owner - San Jose

Brian H.

Local Restaurant Owner

San Jose

San Jose is home to more than 750 quick service restaurants. The overwhelming majority of these local restaurants are small businesses owned by people of color, women and immigrants. San Jose restaurant owners are already struggling to adapt to a new state law that grants fast food workers a highest-in-the-nation minimum wage – $20/hour – and created a new statewide Fast Food Council to strengthen workplace protections. Now, the San Jose City Council is considering an unnecessary and duplicative Costly Restaurant Ordinance that threatens to shut down local restaurants and increase food costs for San Jose families already struggling.

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The Costly Restaurant Ordinance is an attack on San Jose restaurant owners:

increases food costs for families already struggling

threatens to shut down local restaurants and minority-owned businesses

unnecessary and duplicative

diverts San Jose's limited resources

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San Jose Restaurants:

I/we OPPOSE the Costly Restaurant Ordinance. Local restaurant owners are already struggling to adapt to a new, first-in-the-nation state law that imposes significant new costs and burdens on their small businesses. The Ordinance would impose unnecessary and unsustainable new costs on San Jose restaurants and minority-owned small businesses — jeopardizing their very existence. It would also increase food costs for San Jose residents at a time when families are struggling to make ends meet.