Posted on December 1st, 2021
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What’s up fellow entrepreneurs today. I want to talk about the dispute between In-N-Out burger and the city of San Francisco.
But first as always, I’m an attorney, but I’m not your attorney. So please seek out competent representation for your specific legal question or concern.
Now on October 14th, the city of San Francisco closed down the city’s only In-N-Out burger location at the tourist heavy fisherman’s Wharf.
The burger chain was given several warnings to enforce vaccine mandates that required the chain to use its employees, to check vaccine cards before allowing customers to enter their store but they refused.
Several major US cities, including San Francisco, New York, and New Orleans to name a few, required businesses to make customers show proof of vaccination before dining indoors. Health officials in San Francisco say they made numerous requests to In-N-Out to enforce these checks, but were refused.
The failure to comply led to the city’s department of public health to close the In-N-Out location at fisherman’s Wharf.
The restaurant has since reopened for takeout, but it’s still not able to offer indoor dining. In-N-Out has been aggressive in its response to the ruling, admitting the restaurant was not turning away customers who didn’t show proof of vaccination.
They said we refuse to become the vaccination police for any government. We fiercely disagree with any government dictate that forces a private company to discriminate against customers who choose to patronize their business.
This is clear governmental overreach and is intrusive, intrusive and proper and offensive, sounds to me like this has become less of a health issue and more of a political issue.
Whichever side you fall in the debate, it seems odd to me that San Francisco would require businesses to enforce their rules for them.
I understand making rules, whether you agree with the rules or not, it is acceptable in our society that a government has the power to create local ordinances. The problem, I think that In-N-Out has with this particular ordinance, is that it is requiring private businesses to enforce its laws for them.
Has this overreach? Can a government compel you to perform its functions? Both good questions, and I’m sure that this can be hotly debated on both sides, but what about the effect on businesses?
How many more burdens can be placed on businesses in San Francisco? San Francisco is not enforcing basic laws that protect businesses from shoplifters. And now they’re requiring these businesses to act as their free enforcement art.
If you ask me failed bureaucracy at its worst, and unfortunately it’s not going to get any better anytime soon. California continues to make laws that require businesses to pay more, take on more risk, fill out more paperwork and all the while receiving less and less benefit from the state.
So other cities like recently, and I’ll make another video about that, Los Angeles is implementing the same requirements that San Francisco is implementing. S
o it looks like these vaccine mandates that forced businesses to enforce the mandate is you know, going to be the norm here fairly quickly at least in California.
So be ready for them. And until next time be productive.
