we have san francisco soup company at 16 right now. they started here and you mentioned super dooper. let me tell you that the people who own super dooper and the other restaurants, they are heroes. look at what they have opened up and what they have done. in my personal opinion, we should up that limit for local businesses. i mean, it's sad that san francisco soup company those go through the torture of our conditional use permit and it is torture because i was thrown into that last year. let me tell you, it takes eight months to a year to even get heard. >> yes. >> which is scary and to me, it's like you are torturing local businesses. san francisco soup company in my opinion should be able to open up on every corner. i mean they are local. same thing with super dooper and that conglomerate and even the gap, if the gap has a subsidiary, they employee thousands and they have a new concept to be able to put it out there. that would help local business -- in a lost cases where something like that, like upper fillmore, brooks brother ope

you, supervisor campos, for your leadership on this topic and i am steve, the owner of san francisco soup company. and while i think that we definitely want good healthcare coverage for workers in san francisco, and residents in san francisco, and i think that we will disagree on how we accomplish that. and i am afraid that the biggest problem that we have in the city is affordability and it is affordability for everything and while healthcare is a high priority, i think that healthcare is a higher one, and i am concerned and the version of it what will do to affordability in the city and the problem with the law is that it is the law of unintended consequences and when we try to metal with the free markers and we are not careful we can have the unintended consequences as we have seen over the last few years. and the problem is that some businesses can easily afford this and other businesses just simply can't. and we talked a lot about the restaurant industry. and how is the restaurant industry dealing with this and we are dealing with the back actors and the people have been collecting the money

businesses that have recently qualified as formula retail include phils and blue bottle and the san francisco soup company. while these chains are over the current threshold of 11 they are significantly smaller than the other well-established chains. so these are just some points to consider and i'm happy to answer your questions. >> very good. >> thanks. >> so commissioners, christian has prepared a briefing document for you and he is going to take you through some of the questions or items of consideration. >> thank you, director dick-endrizzi. so commissioners you probably saw this in preparation for the meeting. the points that are outlined in this memo don't necessarily provide an answer or recommendation. it's really for the commissioners to derive after their own dialogue. but these were some key questions that have come up prior to the planning department study. in the study and in some cases they are not in the study. so what i am hoping to do is to spur your discussion to hopefully arrive at a commission position, if there is one or recommendation for further analysis or some statement that says

we're not only looking small businesses like the soup or san francisco soup or phil's cfo or blue bottle but a number of others smart phone companies that given in san francisco. if the company begins in san jose new mexico and looking to location they're first outlet in the west coast we want them to come to san francisco not to someplace else like san diego or palo alto we want them here and not make it difficult so hard for them they're to take the easier course maybe they have only 14 or 16 outlets throughout the region and looking for a new one. so i'm in favor of that it could have been a little bit higher only 4 percent fall into 14 or 20. we want uniqueness nobody is going to care if someone comes from something else in the united states we want the people to the local stores after they've heard about a store from san jose. we don't want companies with, you know, as due 50 percent of the formula retailers have over one thousand 45 and 45 percent over 51. we're trying to capture the ones we see everywhere else. on the issue of subsidies i think one point no speaker brought it up the logical one instance they bring up a case