you look at all the companies that starts here, levi strauss, esprit, gap, and the list goes on and on. i know that neighborhood really well. i'm down there on a regular basis. that block is -- of all the blocks, that block, it's just extremely, extremely congested. so my concern would be, one, for pedestrian safety. i mean, i'd love to see a small business succeed and bring some special spark back to -- to the district. but at the same time, it's not that i'm supportive of large business, but big business, if you folks go down to union square, which i was at today, and you see the amount of empty space and storefronts, it's scary. retail is leaving our city at an alarming, alarming rate. and yes, i'm bad. i had three orders of amazon dropped off at my house today, and i'm, you know -- it's tough. i think that retail in the city needs all the help they can get. i'm not super supportive, and the only way that i would be is if a -- a deed of restrictions or some -- some restrictions regarding keeping the footprint of the 1978 volkswagen vanagon and for it not to increase in size in any s

free lunches are a perk at big tech companies, offered by google and twitter, as well as levi strauss cafeterias in san francisco. one supporter of the law banning in house cafeterias said we don't want employees biking and driving to their office, staying there all day and going home. this is about getting people out of their office. if the law is applied, it will deal with new companies. mountain view, california barred facebook for subsidizing on-site meals. says one owner of a restaurant, it's hard to compete with free. maria: so what? companies are allowed to offer employees whatever they want. this is basically to me big government telling companies how to do their business. gerri: or just mouthy small government. it's a board of supervisors here. maria: local city supervisors telling technology companies how to pay their employees. that's a perk that companies have a right to give. >> what about the food service companies? most of them are outsourcing. so you have major food service companies that are going to be losing contracts and it makes no sense. another thing, why don't