collaboration for making san francisco a better place for business to thrive. i would like to thank the departments that we have worked with for our matters, including public utilities commission and others. thank you. >> every time we do a ceremony like to make a presentation,

sometimes alphabetically. what'd like to do today is use our seating arrangement as a way to go through the presentation, starting with supervisor tang. >> i'd like to call up our district four honoree bruno up to the podium. he is the owner of [inaudible] he opened it in 2011 and what i love about this is that he is a former chemist and self taught baker. bruno's goal is to provide a comfortable environment, fresh

made pastries. so any way, among his other signature pastries, they include -- bacon morning bun, sweet potato tart and a new york cheesecake. other comfort food include homemade soup, homemade marshmallow smores. he continues to contribute to the community. one wall is dedicated to showcasing the art work of neighborhood children. he has donated pastries to families watching movies out at parkside and he's also donated

pastries to local schools for fund raising events. he has a goal of beautifying the local community in [inaudible]. and lastly, his gratification comes from customers enjoying his culinary creations. he knows that he's making a little difference in peoples' lives. thank you for rolling occupant bakery. >> thank you supervisor tang. it is such as honor to be named [inaudible] for our district. i would like to thank supervisor tang for the support of our store. and just a word about rolling out bakery.

we've been in the district for about a year-and-a-half now. it's a very rough journey. at the particular location i'm in there have been several failed businesses in the last few years. one of the reason is due to the lack of traffic. what separates rolling occupant so far from previous businesses is number one, our special pastry. specifically we'll put in one cup of love and one cup of creativity in everything we bake from sweet potato cinnamon rolls to chili egg tarts. and number two, we strive to be a part of our local community with a friendly welcoming atmosphere. and we try to know our customers by name, welcome them with a smile and a friendly atmosphere. and so

far we've been well supported by the local community for which i'm very grateful and indebted to. we use a wall in our store to showcase the art of local artists, specifically /kheurpbl from age 5 to 12. these artists are all from the young artist school across the street from us. moving forward we have proposed to [inaudible] bringing to local community together and increasing foot traffic to benefit local merchants. we are determined to stick around and as the

saying goes, if i make it here, i make it anywhere. and this time [inaudible]. thank you very much. >> thank you. why don't we now go around the chamber to district seven, supervisor yee. >> i'd like to bring up joanna lay. when i started considering which one small business to recognize from district seven, i realized how lucky i am to be representing -- there are so many businesses

that represent our neighborhood. it's unfortunate that i can only recognize one small business, since this is home to one major merchant corridor. at lake side, lakeside plaza, stones town, even part of [inaudible] thinking about the theme of small /pweutz week, small business shaping our communities, there is one personal that kept coming in mind. that person is joanna lay, owner of joe joe's cafe, located on ocean avenue, who has actively been shaping ocean avenue communality for over a deck decade now. she opened

it in 2002 and i think she has single handedly served the entire community city college with their budget in mind. it is not only city college students she is feeding. it's the kids at local elementary schools and high schools where she is known for donating hundreds of dollars worth of food each year. she hasn't given up. she and her family focused energy on [inaudible] they

reopened in july of 2011 after a long struggle of trying to fix up the restaurant. and to the joy of many, /eupbl , including many of me and my neighbors, this past year joanna has continued criminal intenting to the neighborhood by kicking off the ocean avenue business watch. she has worked with the ocean avenue association to organize merchants, neighbors and city departments and san francisco police departments to meet and share information and issues related to neighborhood safety, crime prevention and reduction to increase overall small business protection. joanna was sitting there and a voiced

her concerns about more recent incidents around the ocean avenue corridor. together we are finding responses and solution in a way that affect merchant neighborhoods. every neighborhood should have a small business like joe joe's cafe and a small business owner like her to shape the communality. so help me in welcoming here to the podium and . >> thank you. i want to thank you. good afternoon honors commissioner, supervisors ladies and gentlemen. thanks for /eupbl including me at

this special event. i feel honor and privilege to be here today. my name is joanna lee. i'm just four short blocks of city college of san francisco. joe joe cafe serve hong kong and american food since 2002. we are a business of 12 employees. we run into challenges, including multiple break ins. a fire burned down our business. we were distraught and felt defeated, but we were determined to move forward. we quickly remodelled and reopened in 2011. my

brother and i each work 13 hour per day, 6 day a week to make sure that our business is successful. we have many employees and their families who /tkpepbldz on us. in addition to the long hours we work, we have small /kheurpbl to care for and elder write parents to tend to. after paying the sales taxes and the quarterly taxes, which were followed by the edd taxes, the liabilities for small businesses like us were non stop. it would be helpful if we can attract more customer and foot traffic, but ocean avenue is a tough neighborhood. many of our customer express concern for the safety and for good reason. a few our

customer were victim of employees and assaulted, burglaries and theft, intimidation and harassment. there were illegal problem around the corn er from us. we were really worried and felt helpless. after remodelling, things began to change for us. [inaudible] and she pay us a number [inaudible] which i thought was very helpful. [inaudible] give us hope and confidence that things will change and that the police department is accessible to us. supervisor yee came to our place of business to pay us a

personal visit and was very sincere in wanting to help. i was overwhelmed by my good fortune to have the [inaudible] of the police department and supervisor himself. thank you supervisor yee and captain lam -- he's not here, but i want to thank him 'cause he do a lot. so your help is very much appreciated. i hope that the police department will re/phaeupbl approachable and accessible to our community. i believe that a sustainable solution would be a police substation [inaudible] on ocean avenue and capitol which would encase the neighborhood. i am con /tpeu confident that your

continued support will leave a long lasting effect on the neighborhood. i'm ho that we'll continue [inaudible] beneficial for the [inaudible] and our business. our goal has always been, and will always be to provide our customer with affordable [inaudible] meal and good customer service. please stop by to try our special cooking in a warm family atmosphere. we welcome any and all and treat you like our own family. please come by. thank you.

>> congratulations to the honoree from district seven. now to sis district /tepbl. >> i'm excited to introduce to you the spicy new hotness of dog patch. they represent a

fantastic restaurant, gilbirth. mark my words, this rest /raupblts restaurant is going to be going some place. there's another business in the dog patch district, called the new spot. fusion menu with inspirations from his grandmother. so we have grandmother to thank for that. community involvement was actually very critical in /phreubging sure this business is sustainable and getting the doors open. day partnered with

the industrial center, which is a huge property in the dog patch area, which has been criminal intenting in the revitalization of this historic district. i personally am a frequent patron of gilbirth. i've celebrated my birthday there, business meetings there, dates there. i have to tell you, what's important also is this restaurant has received /tpe phenomenal reviews from

all over the place. i'm honored to recognize them in small business month. i want to acknowledge all of our small businesses out there. thank you for your service. also th are out standing in providing servicesto our businesses. eas gilbert. just a couple minutes. >> we can't thank you enough for putting us back on the map. just when we thought that we had conquered everything that we wanted to do, i decided to name gilbert's after my husband because i look up to him. i love him with all my heart and

i once said to myself, i will name something that will represent not only yourself, but ourselves, but come /pwaoeupbl combine it in one. it's been a tough journey, we've been in business since 2005. we have three businesses in the dog patch neighborhood and now we will consolidate in two and we'd like to thank you for your support. >> i think what's important to reck /tphaoeutz is the story of how you became a restaurant entrepreneurs. maybe you can tell that story. >> well, one of the reasons we are in business in the dog patch is because we love that

neighborhood so much. it means a lot to us. we've been working there for 15 years and we wanted to stay in that neighborhood. that's where i met my wife and we got married so we wanted to stay in that neighborhood, we wanted to do something for ourselves. my previous boss always encouraged me to keep going and get our dreams. so that's what we've been doing and now we own three businesses in the neighborhood and thank you very much for you support. >> so the lesson here is if you want good food, come to dog patch and if you want to fall in love, come to dog patch.

>> tracy, i think i see you right there. come on up. what makes tracy so special is she's not only a very dedicated small

business owner, but also a dedicated [inaudible] she creates [inaudible] helping people heal in our communities for the past 15 years tracy ran healing environments which is dedicated to healing suffering which is dedicated to art healing and stuffering. when they're closing she dedicates her time to [inaudible] residential care for men and women in need of /hos /pes and 24 hour care. she received the jefferson award in 2008. we've gotten to know each other, she recently stepped up to become president of sacramento street, which is a great merchant

street. i know tracy's hope is to revive that area and part of town. in addition to helping along the corridor interim chair as supervisor moore mentioned for the richmond community advisory board. it's been really an honor getting to know you lately and your enthusiasm for what you want to bring to the table here is admirable. thank you for combining your involvement and your small business. it's a better place because of you. congratulations. >> thank you. i come from the

non profit world but even before that for me it all comes back to funture. i have some relationship to furniture and over the years i'm a furniture mover, i move lamps, tables, but usually in the direction of healthcare agencies and hospital chapels. just /trao*euing trying to improve the environment so people using those spaces had a better quality of life while they're here. i've met amazing people and amazing /phebls here in our community who have taught me great things. and i'm just but an ordinary pt that my life

is here in san francisco i keep finding ways to be involved. i'm a mom, but i feel my first primary job should be to him, but he's use to this now. he knows i like to help community. he's doing some after school work, but he thanks you as well. i find myself as a small business owner struggling. i love to connect people to environment so that part is really good. it's really disturbing sometimes that i can have days go by with almost no foot traffic and literally seeing somebody handing out tickets to people who have come out to the district to shop. i found myself in a dilemma thinking how is this going to

work. meanwhile as i work on my business there would be a crime down the street, say a 1000 pair of earrings from a small business owner. those were gone, there was no communication between /pher merchants that there was any crime on the street. we can't afford to have our livelihood stolen from underneath us. i find myself stepping in, getting involved and getting incredible support. in january i reached out and said i'm going to try this on and i had people reaching across the table saying how can i help you. more and more people keep

leaning in, saying how can i help, how can i help? and thank you. so i'm here to say thank you for your support and we have more to do. and i'm kind of excited that so many people are behind us right now saying how can i help. so count me in. i'm here to continue in as many ways as i can and thank you very much for this honor. yeah.

>> next is district one, supervisor mar. >> thank you. i guess before i invite [inaudible] from [inaudible] market up i'd like to [inaudible] activities last week. i am proud of our small business, but especially a focus on making our merchant corridors, areas everyone is going to so that we're shopping small and sf made products. if you could come forward mr. [inaudible]. he is from [inaudible] market and has been a leader for almost 30 years.

he's provided not only high quality and healthy foods to our community, but i think this market is a place where people gather, but it's a place that makes the richmond district special. the cranberry sauce on their turkey is so awesome. it's a great place for picnics too to quickly gram of cocaine