The Costly Restaurant Proposal would:
Ask your City Councilmember to Oppose the Costly Restaurant Proposal
Take ActionBrian 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 proposal that threatens to shut down local restaurants and increase food costs for San Jose families already struggling.
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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I/we OPPOSE the costly restaurant proposal. 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 proposal 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.