i'd like to call up lori thomas, the policy chair of the golden gate restaurant association. >> thanko -- good afternoon and thank you, all, for taking the time. many have you have known me over the years. i've been in the industry for a long time. what i'd like to do is speak on behalf and give an expert summary overview of the golden gate restaurant association. i still own and manage two restaurants in san francisco. and we really appreciate your time. i know there is a lot of people who wanted to be here today, but have to run their restaurant, so we're going to give them feedback. i'm going to read the overview here. so what we wanted to do today was address concerns we're having with hard issues our industry is facing. we're going to start with facts to bring everybody to the same page. this is taking the number of sales tax permits in 2018 and from the bureau of labor statistics, we have 2500 eating establishments and generating $4.7 million in taxable sales to the city. our industry provides approximately 65,000 working class jobs in san francisco alone. and we represent 52% o

patient thomas cox and his wife lori. t first glance, thomas seems fine-- but he's not. >> thomas cox: i've got f.t.d. >> dr. miller: okay, and has that affected you so far? >> thomas cox: no. >> whitaker: in fact, lori cox says that, starting a few years ago, thomas lost interest in her, in their son, and in his work-- so much that he was fired from his job. by now, he's pretty much reduced to looking at photos on his phone. >> thomas cox: that's bugatti. >> lori cox: that's our dog. ( laughs ) >> dr. miller: ah. your dog. >> lori cox: i can blame the disease. i can say that the disease stole my-- my husband. >> dr. miller: yes. when a family sees someone with this illness, they don't recognize them. this is not the person i married, that i love. this is not my father, or my mother. >> whitaker: you have said that f.t.d. attacks people at the very soul of their humanity. >> dr. miller: this is profound as anything that can happen to a human being. it robs us of our very essence of our humanity, of who we are. >> whitaker:

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