yesterday was my birthday and i was out a little later than normal. it was nice to really celebrate a birthday for a change and i celebrated in ashia sf in san francisco where -- oh, my goodness, the performance was amazing. the food was great. the drinks were wonderful, the people were wonderful, but what i most enjoyed about being at asia sf is that they require

everyone who comes through the door shows proof of vaccination. and so i felt a little bit safer when i was there last night and today's announcement is really about making sure that people feel a little bit safer in our city, but most importantly, what we're seeing now with this virus is very challenging. and of great concern to me and i know many of you as well. but let's take it back just a little bit. the fact is that we should be proud of san franciscans. when i asked you all over a year ago to shelter in place and basically change your entire lives to support one another and ensure this virus didn't spread. you answered the call, you stepped up, you did your part.

our health care workers showed up to the hospital to take care of those who unfortunately contracted the virus. but ultimately, we saw the best of the people of this city. and now, we need just a little bit more. and, again, going back to where we are. we've seen in this city 78% of people in san francisco have been fully vaccinated. that's still more than any place else in the country. and i know the rest of you all are coming kicking and screening, but let me explain why this is so important. it's important because kids under the age of 12 cannot be vaccinated. so we have to make sure we're protecting them. it's important because there are still people who are elderly and sick and those with underlying health conditions that may not be eligible for the vaccine. we're doing this for them.

so the reason why we're here today is because we're actually following the lead of small businesses and in particular, many bars in san francisco that decided on their own we're going to require proof of vaccination before you enter our bar and the reason why we're here at vericio is because the owner, wherever she is, there you go. janet clyde, she took it the extra step. she took a lot of heat for it. she said i want to keep my customers and my employees safe, so i'm going to do this despite how challenging it was. how it impacted her business because she put the health and safety of the people of this city and her customers and her

employees before anything else. that's what being a good san franciscan is all about and so we appreciate you letting us be here at this historic location to recognize that we really are in this together. and because this delta variant has been so brutal i don't know about you, but when the virus first happened and over that time period. i knew less people at that time who actually got the virus. and there are a bunch of folks that i know how who have in some cases been vaccinated that have contracted covid because the delta variant is just that more contagious and we are not out of the woods as it relates to covid, we're still going through it. yes, we're sick and and tired of it, but it's not tired of us

it's still coming back with a vengeance. we're seeing 263 new cases and those people are younger in some cases than what previously existed and dr. cofax said if i'm going to get covid anyway. it's a difference being home every day or being in a hospital on a respirator where you can't breathe and this is real and it's hard to understand when you don't complooeld see it, but in some cases they can't talk where in

this past year and a half, there have been people who died who have not been able to have funerals. when we think about those sorts of things, how can we not do our part to get better, to get vaccinated to make sure we're protecting one another. to make sure we're protecting our children because they can't get vaccinated. so why are we here today? well, part of it is we're taking our steps around vaccinations just a little bit further and starting august 20th, you will need proof of vaccination in businesses for your customers in high contact areas like bars, restaurants, clubs, theaters, entertainment venues. indoor gyms and fitness and large indoor events with more

than a 1,000 people. by october 13th, employees at these establishments must be vaccinated as well. all of the employees need to show proof of vaccination by october 13th to their employer. now, to be clear, this will not include people or kids who are under the age of 12 because they can't get vaccinated. so what we don't want folks to think is a family of four that you can't go to a restaurant, you can. because we know that your children cannot be vaccinated and will not have the ability to show proof, but the parents will need to. and, this does not impact those who are coming to pick up to-go orders. a lot of folks who do the deliveries. so this won't impact that. as i said, why are we doing this? it's to protect the workers. it's to protect kids.

it's to protect those who can't get vaccinated. it's to make sure we don't go backwards. it's to make sure that i never have to get up in front of you and say i'm sorry we just re-opened and now the city's closed again because we are seeing too many people die. so to find out information about getting vaccinated go to sf.gov/vaccinated. you can call if you have any questions or need additional information, but this is an important step towards our recovery. i saw on the news hamilton just opened and people were there with smiles on their faces. underneath the mask, i saw the

high cheekbones. i know you guys know what that looks like and it felt good. i don't know about you but when i went out to asia sf, the women who performed there to be out in a city, to go to a restaurant, to see people again, there was a time we could not do this, so if we want to continue down this path if we want to make sure people are healthy to make sure we're in a good place as a city from a public health perspective so that our economy can really recover to its fullest extent, then we all have to do our part. we need to get vaccinated. we need to make sure that we

are respectful to the businesses that ask us to put on our mask, or to produce your vaccination cards. we need to continue to have grace as we deal with one of the most and count your blessings and let's make sure it isn't anyone else in the future because that's what this is about. making sure that now that we have a vaccine that we take full advantage of it because that's going to make the difference for us. and i want to thank a couple of folks here joining us including rodney fong from the san

francisco chamber. thank you for being here. sharky laguana, thank you for your work and advocacy. thank you. and we have a couple of other folks joining us. i think ben blyman is going to say a few words representing the bar owners here today. you know, it was not -- asia sf is somewhat like a bar. it's a bar, performance, food, they have it all. so it's like the perfect bar space where you get everything. anyway, ben is here to talk a little bit about that. mary ellen carol is here from the department of emergency management to answer any questions. and, i think um, who else is here? like i said, it was a long night. and, right now, i'm going to call up dr. grant cofax to talk

a little bit about the specifics of our health order, what the plans are and just thank you all so much for being here and thank you all for continuing to do your very best to comply with these very complicated sometimes numerous health orders, but they will keep us safe and they will save lives. thank you so much. well, good morning everyone. and thank you, mayor breed, for your steadfast leadership. as we continue to navigate covid-19 as a city. and thank you, janet, and visuvio for your important efforts as we recover from this pandemic. and i want to thank our acting health officer who worked hard on these orders and for director marry ellen carol for your ongoing partnership in this response. the business community has been an important partner in our

efforts ever since the early days of the pandemic which is now well over a year and a half. from capacity limits to masking requirements to everything in between, you have responded and adapted to the many new ways of doing business throughout. and, for that, we thank you. i look out at all the new outdoor dining pots and walk-ups these days and i'm so pleased to see the way san francisco has adapted and come bang to life. even in just the last few months. the difference is palpable. our ability to adapt, change and respond will service well because even as we beat back this disease. we also know that covid-19 will be with us in some capacity for the foreseeable future. we are now in a new phase of the pandemic. and even as we see a surge of cases, we have the powerful

tool to fight this disease and keep ourselves and each other safe. the vaccines. let's use them. the updates to our safer return together health order are designed to make sure we can continue to keep businesses open and enjoy our lives in san francisco safely even as we face the delta variant and other variants to come where people are at close range. breathing heavy indoors. it's simply common sense. it makes sense to require vaccinations in indoor settings where food and drink is served like restaurants and bars and where aerobic exercises happen in gyms and fitness establishments and where many people gather like at indoor venues of a thousand people or more. we believe we will continue to

make a major difference in lowering the spread of covid-19 with the common sense solution of vaccines. the vaccines continue to work remarkably well especially and dramatically lowering the risk of hospitalization and death from covid-19. the vaccines are our armor. they are our life jackets. they are parachutes. d.p.h. launched a vax to you campaign last week that will bring a mobile vaccination team to your home or business if you have at least five people ready to get the vaccine. we ask businesses to please take advantage of that and you can go to sf.gov/vaxtoyou for

more information. you can continue to get the vaccine from your health care provider or at a farmee or many of our drop-in sites across the city. we are also ready and in hand to have the new tools to implement the new vax even requirements. while today's announcement applies to these specific kinds of business, we also encourage all businesses in the city to do their part and require their employees and patrons to get vaccinated as soon as possible. for anyone who is on the fence about getting vaccinated or hasn't made the time, we very much hope that the incentive of eating at your favorite restaurant in san francisco or grabbing a drink will remove any barriers that you may have for getting vaccinated. the vaccine is safe, effective, and appointments are readily available. and, just a reminder, that even

if you've already had covid-19, we in the city strongly recommend that you get fully vaccinated. thank you, and, with that, i'd like to introduce ben blyman, head of the san francisco's bar owner's alliance and an early leader in requiring vaccinations at bars and encouraging others to join. ben, thank you. >> thank you. first of all, i'd like to say happy birthday to mayor breed. happy birthday. second of all, i just want to thank mayor breed for her leadership throughout the pandemic. for many of us, it's the worst year and a half of our professional lives and i can't say how grateful we are to have somebody in the highest leadership of san francisco who actually cares about us and doesn't just help us when it's politically expedient to do so. time and time again the mayor's

shown she truly cares about our issues and is willing to go to the mat for us. thank you for that. i just wanted to call that out. about three to four weeks ago, the san francisco bar owners started to notice alarming cases of break through infections with staff members of ours. these are vaccinated individuals working in bars who suddenly were coming down with covid, thankfully, none of the cases were serious. there were no hospitalizations but it was enough to give us pause and have a robust conversation. in that conversation, three things came up that i noticed and it was a very robust conversation. one was how scared we were for the health of our staff members. specifically, we have a lot of staff members who have young children. we have a lot of staff members who take care of elderly parents and the idea they could bring something home and put them in danger was scary for us and real. we have a sacred obligation to our staff members. we know that. we feel that way, and that was

really first and foremost in our minds. the second was the impact it was having on our businesses. if somebody comes down with covid, even if they don't go to the hospital, they're out for at least ten days and we're having a staffing shortage already across the u.s., so this has a serious impact on our ability to do business. i myself had to close a bar for a night because my bartender got covid at a different job of his and we were unable to find coverage. and the third thing that came up was the frustration that we felt as a community. for the first year of the pandemic, we were fighting an uncontrollable virus. it could be sort of managed, but it was kind of out of control and we kind of had the sense of fatalism. but that was no longer the case. and the bar owners were veryis

a sievous and it was something that came up and we floated the idea what if we just don't let them inside. after a poll we did, over 80% of our membership responded that they would like to go through with that and they declared we would only allow vaccinated individuals to hang out indoors at our establishments. in actual practice, it was a little bit of a nothing burger. if anything, almost every single person was happy about t. they were thrilled. they were thankful. they were safer. the pushback we got was online from a bunch of remarkably right wing trolls whose trolling was so bad hopefully i could teach them about how to troll correctly. that said, we've gone through with it. it works. it's helping to decrease exposure to our staff members. we know that unvaccinated individuals are eight times

more likely to contract and spread coronavirus and we need to make sure that we keep them from exposing our staff and their families as much as we can. even though there wasn't much pushback, we still kind of felt like we were on an island as a group. we didn't do it thinking other people would follow. we didn't do it to change hearts and minds. if hearts and minds do change, that's fantastic. but we did to to protect our staff and families. but the fact that san francisco is doing this now is a huge thing for us. we're not alone anymore. the city is making a bold statement if you want to participate in our society fully, if you want to be able to cough into the mouths of other people around you in closed tight areas, you must be vaccinated indoors. the fact that we're not alone is a huge benefit to us and i thank the city of san francisco for going through with this. it's a giant deal for us so thank you very much, thanks for

having us. >> thank you, ben. and, thank you to all the bar owners in san francisco. thank you to the vasuvio and janet in particular for your leadership and work and advocacy. as i said, the bars did this a couple weeks ago and the city is following their lead which i think is truly remarkable. the example that they're setting what we're doing to keep people safe is most important at this time. and, with that, i'll open it up to questions from the press.

>> i'm kate new director of the office of economic and workforce

development. i want to welcome our mayor to make some opening comments. >> thank you, kate, i'm excited to be here in the mission with your supervisor, hilary ronen, and your new assessor recorder jaoquin torez, who was really an important part to helping deal with the challenges around our economic and workforce development which is the position that indicate now holds

and he jumped into action because he knew so many businesses here and they would struggle. in the beginning we waved a lot of fees and we tried to provide grants and loans to small businesses but it was not enough and it was challenging. so many people had to shut down and many struggled with getting access to ppp and ppp before the protection of their employees and when i think about the vibe antsy of san francisco and this pandemic set us back. we are here today you sacrifice so much it was hard but now that

which beginning to reopen and that light we keep talking about is here to so those cases and and our small and it's time to reopen and folks to get back to shopping in these corridors, going to these cafes. and really enjoying this city like never. i don't know about you but now, when i go out, into the neighborhoods, when i go to my dry-cleaner, i'm like hey, sammy! it's good to see you! you with go and go to the different place us go to and people just feel good and so many businesses have closed temporarily but they've closed

permanently and since the beginning of this pandemic, this city has given out about 3,000 buses over $52 million and we waved fees, we come up with creative solutions, but we know there's a lot of people in san francisco who depend on this economy to survive and so now, because thank you to supervisors and there's a lot of money and they weren't able to open so the business recovery act ha is part of we making it easier for these store fonts for businesses to open in san francisco and it should not be so difficult to be able to do business in the city

and working with the supervisors, there was a great for the next year and for those people who are trying to start businesses and we don't have necessarily the capital to invest but we're trying to make it easier by waving some of the city fees, dealing with the you're ok ra see and cutting the red tape and allowing people to go into business in san francisco. and it should not be hard. and also these great shared spaces. this program is all permanent. now i know there's people explaining about parking, but there's muni lines and thank you, thank you. there's muni lines and there's drop-off points and let's make sure we're taking our seniors and taking care of them. ultimately the city is alive again and it feels so good.

so what is the next step. there are businesses out here who just need a little bit to get over that hump. they have back rent they owe, they have employees they owe, they have pg&e they need to pay, they have a water system or they may need to remodel. there are expenses and in order to ensure every is providing grants is also critical to making sure we give folks just a little bit of that boost in order to ensure their success and today, i'm excited we are giving $10,000 grants to four anchor businesses of this community. [applause] >> this is just a step part of making sure they thrive has everything to do with the people

who live and visit this community and you have to support these coffee shops, you have to support these businesses, you have to make sure that you are not order interesting amazon anymore because we have hardware stores and other places and look, if they don't have it they'll order and get it in for you you just have to be patient. this new generation is like a generation that needs instantaneous satisfaction, i need my hair clip now! do whatever you to continue your espy you help with job opportunities and pay their mortgage or rent and all the things that come with living in an expensive city like san francisco so congratulations we'll be giving out those grants

today so you can know who those businesses are and so that after we're done with this press conference, you can go and shop at those. i want to introduce hilary ronen. >> can we give a big round of applause to our mayor, so has done so much for small businesses than any mayor before her. she is taking action and i appreciate who has she a pointed not once but twice to run our office of economic and workforce development first jaoquin torez a beloved leader this this community. thank you for all you did early

on. and now kate who knows about what it means to run a small business in this city and will put small businesses first and for most and give a couple of shout outs to i say knows every single business. their owners and their kids and their economic situations and she spent more time on this street than anyone i know and we love you for it. thank you so much. and susana rojas, thank you so much for all your work and i want to call out all these people because it really does take a village to support small business community and these

days the amazon has changed the way that we buy and think about goods and services we are losing the very thing that makes our community. when you see all the murals and the amazing arts and gifts and you go and you have a cup of coffee and you go the family-run business and their kids and when they're graduating college and this what makes san francisco special and we're not the type of city that has a chain store on every corner, we love our small businesses and they're usually much run by immigrants and women and families and people of color and it's incumbent like the mayor said to wait those two extra days and to

shop we want to keep them safe and the more people walking around, the more vibrant they are and the safer they are to please, do your part. the city is certainly doing our part with a small business recovery act, the vacancy tax, the shared spaces program. the first year free for new businesses. we're doing everything in our power to make it easier and run and operate a business in the city as we should be again thank you so much to the mayor for her leadership on that and thank you so much and congratulations to all our amazing businesses that are being awarded. tease well deserved grants today.

>> there was a shortage at the beginning of this pandemic. >> why don't we have our businesses come up. >> so, we have connie rivera and she's the owner of the business right behind us here. and congratulations.

>> good afternoon, everyone. i wanted to say thank you to the mayor for all the hard work i do and thinking about small businesses. which really need it. i wanted to say a lot of words but i can't. i just wanted to say thank you. thank you for all the staff for working, for making it possible for choosing us, we really need it in these hard times. i wanted to share something today. when i asked my little boy to come and i say, come to the

business and i say, come on, the mayor is coming. and he is like what! and he said yeah, and he said for what? guess what, we getting an award for $10,000 and he was so excite the and he was like yeah, mom ma, now we can buy a house. i said really. ok, no, you can take me to l.a. to disney! and i said no, forget it. that check is going to my landlord. anyway, i wanted to thank you and thank my landlord for the patience with us and god bless him, god bless all the nice landlords that we have around. without them, we couldn't still hear. he didn't give me mental stress.

i went into depression knowing i had to close my business. i had to close another business on 24th street during the pandemic because i couldn't afford it and i couldn't pay so he invest a lot in that business and we still owe money. thank you, very much. god bless, everyone. please, i want to tell i, look, i sell this, this is what my business represents. let's keep the culture alive. all cultures are beautiful! come support local business! don't make the amazon richer because he already become more richer than anybody else. so, please, come support local business. thank you! bless you.

next i'd like to call up carmen, owner of a bakery. >> hello. thank you, very much, everybody. especially to the mayor.

especially one person very special to me diana. [applause] they help me to put my application through and it was a favor to me because i didn't know too much on the internet and i had to get involved and when i got the e-mail, i was really happy to learn how to read my e-mail. it made me cry and i called diana and i said this is true, dianne. i think his son douglas to help me to put my papers through and everything that seeing the mayor and what you say is true is true and we've been getting a lot and touchdowns good and and that is

it. thank you, thank you. >> up next, the beloved cafe. can i call out amy. and anna. >> my name is amy and i'm here

with my husband and our manager and it's been just support from the whole community and this whole time through the pandemic and we couldn't have it done without the amazing support of our team and i just so grateful for all of their hard work and care and compassion and just diligence and i think that everybody has been under a lot of tremendous stress all year long and to have people by you are side diligent and willing to serve the community and that's what we're here inform i think my husband also wants to say something. i just want to say you know, during this pandemic, we also were working hard to raise money and also serve frontline workers and keep serving and employ

people. >> i'm so honored and privileged to live in such a vibrant city in a live city. mull' cultural and everyone comes work together and your so many honored be led by this amazing leader london brow and helping us out for the next pandemic and we did a lot of everyday to stay alive and help frontline workers and the communities and we serve the community and we're passion to serve to service and also it's in our most inter part of my heart is to see everybody come alive. this city is so powerful and no one city of love, city of connection so we want to bring all the people back again and we want to make these people feel alive again in this city and this vibrant, amazing city of san francisco and so, we are people of the city and we are the people that are going to make it happen, going through this and making it really

vibrant city again so thank you, everybody. and at the same time, our feelings for all the businesses, yes, we're pre privileged and thankful. i think about everybody in the city. how we can actually share this help and love with everybody. sol, please, i'm come and support the local businesses and yes, make it happen together. thank you, everybody. >> is there anything you want to say? >> thank you, diana and everybody thank you. >> all right. >> all right. last and certainly not least we have tamos cafe! [applause]

good afternoon. i'm the owner of the cafe and i've been in business for seven years. it's been very hard year for us since the pandemic started. we've been having hard time finding employees. the business went down and i

really appreciate and thank you, thank the mayor for all her help and support for the small businesses. i mean, each help and support forever small businesses will make us a life and it will make us run the business with positive attitudes and i really would like to thank the community also for their support and their help and being there for us. i close my shop for a month and a half and when i open everyone was coming to my shop so happy and excited and they said we like to be in business and we like to support you so without the community, without the mayor's help and the supervisor and diana's help we couldn't make it and i like also to share

with you the money i got today and their word and i really thank you for all this and i appreciate it and it's going to my shop. i need to hire more employees. i'm doing remodeling at the shop and just to make it running and it looks good for the community and i really thank you all for all your help and support and thank you for everybody you do for us. thank you. >> ta lino task force and everyone working for the organizations around here in the mission community and we have a lot of tremendous for my mother and thank you for everything and what a beautiful day to promote the grants and thank you. >> thank you. >> the last thing i want to say and one of the things we do a lot for businesses and a lot of

loans and a lot of low interest loans and fee waivers but we hear from so many businesses these grants make a difference and with give to sf that we started at the beginning of the pandemic, when the private sectors and it makes it possible for us to forgive some of those loans and we've been able to do as we reopen, the city will make its comments and ultimately these grants make the biggest impact because these businesses can't make up those lost revenues for the past year, if you do hair, you wouldn't get money back that you lost over the pandemic from getting your hair cun, because people are going to go back to their regular schedule of getting your hair done, right. or your nails and your toes, i

know because that's something that i really missed during the pandemic. the fact is, there's month makep for that. how do we ensure these businesses stay hope and thrive. we try to provide as much money that they don't have to pay back as possible. to all of you out there, you see this and you want to help and no dollar amount is too small. give to sf is a program we started and the supervisor, ronen and i worked really hard on getting those small and large contributions to the communities so, you see this and i can't help but get emotional and think about the fact that there's still rent, even with this there's still rent to pay and are there kids who families can't take them to disney land or can't take them on these great trips because they have a business to run and they have to put all of their resources into survive, into food, into school clothes and into all the challenges that exist when you, again, live in an expensive city

like san francisco. we'll do what we can to try and get as much resources in the hands of our small businesses and i want all san franciscans to do everything they can too up lift these businesses and we appreciate you all being here today and i do not want to go to a point where we are shut down again because if we have to go there, guess who suffers the most. our low income families so let's keep each other safe like we did during this pandemic. we did an incredible job. the sun is always shining in the mission and so let's continue to support, up lift one another, support our small businesses, thank you all so much for being here today. and finally let's get a group picture with all the grantees.

>> what we're trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. it's not just the old european style food. we are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. all we ask is make it

flavorful. [♪♪♪] >> we are the first two-year culinary hospitality school in the united states. the first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. i'm a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. so students can expect to learn under the three degrees. culinary arts management degree, food service management degree, and hotel management degree. we're not a cooking school. even though we're not teaching you how to cook, we're teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus you're

getting an associate of science degree. >> my name is vince, and i'm a faculty member of the hospitality arts and culinary school here in san francisco. this is my 11th year. the program is very, very rich in what this industry demands. cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. it's quite a complete program to prepare them for what's happening out in the real world. >> the first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. he was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. this program, it's awesome.

>> it's another world when you're here. it's another world. you get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. you get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. >> i've been in the program for about a year. two-year program, and i'm about halfway through. before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. i had few injuries, and i couldn't pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. when i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. >> the good thing is we have students everywhere from places

like the ritz to -- >> we have kids from every area. >> facebook and google. >> kids from everywhere. >> they are all over the bay area, and they're thriving. >> my name is jeff, and i'm a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in san francisco. i attended city college of san francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90's. nopalito on broderick street, it's based on no specific region in mexico. all our masa is hand made. we cook our own corn in house. everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day

and night, we're making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. a lot of love put into this. [♪♪♪] >> used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. now, it's shades of gray, and we're trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. fine dining calls into white table cloths. the cafeteria is large production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those types of kitchens. and the ideas that change every year, again, it's the notion and the venue. >> one of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the

concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. it's been a pizzeria, a taco bar. it's been a mediterranean bar, it's been a noodle bar. people choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. we, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. we're open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. >> the menu's always interesting. they change it every semester, maybe more. there's always a good variety of foods.

the preparation is always beautiful. the students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and they're so proud of their work. >> i've had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so it's more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. >> when i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90% of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. >> we do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of san francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living.

we hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. my partner is also a graduate of city college. >> so my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. i actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. >> i'm thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. >> yeah, i want to go back to china. i want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. >> so we want them to have a full toolkit. we're trying to make them ready for the world out there.>> app0