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Santa Clara County

Restaurants

The Costly Restaurant Ordinance would:

  • Jeopardize the Survival of Local Restaurants
  • Increase Food Prices
  • Threaten Jobs

Ask your County Supervisor to Oppose the Costly Restaurant Ordinance

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Brian H. - Local Restaurant Owner - San Jose Brian H. - Local Restaurant Owner - San Jose

Brian H.

Local Restaurant Owner

San Jose

Santa Clara County is home to more than 1,600 quick service restaurants. The overwhelming majority of local restaurants are small businesses owned by people of color, women and immigrants. Santa Clara County restaurants are already struggling to survive the state’s new $20/hour minimum wage for fast food workers—a 25% wage hike. Now, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is considering a new unnecessary, duplicative and costly ordinance that threatens to shut down local restaurants, jeopardize jobs and further increase food costs for families already struggling.

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The Costly Restaurant Ordinance is an attack on Santa Clara County restaurants and consumers:

increases food costs for families

threatens to shut down restaurants and minority-owned small businesses

unnecessary and duplicative

diverts the County’s limited resources

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Santa Clara County Restaurants:

I/we OPPOSE the Costly Restaurant Ordinance. Local restaurant owners are already struggling to adapt to a new, first-in-the-nation state law that imposes significant new costs and burdens on their small businesses. The Ordinance would impose unnecessary and unsustainable new costs on Santa Clara County restaurants and minority-owned small businesses — jeopardizing their very existence. It would also increase food costs for County residents and jeopardize jobs at a time when families are struggling to make ends meet.