This "solution" seems like a combination of regulatory capture by local restaurants that want to avoid competing, and the usual SF Supervisor cravenness / refus

This "solution" seems like a combination of regulatory capture by local restaurants that want to avoid competing, and the usual SF Supervisor cravenness / refusal to deal with the root cause of the issue. The restaurants mentioned in the article (Udon place under 1455 Market and The Market) are both expensive and mediocre, which is no recipe for success. Instead of attracting customers through serving a better product, they are trying to eliminate competition. Around my office in SoMa by Montgomery, there are numerous thriving lunch places. The Bird, an affordable fried chicken sandwich spot, has 40 people lined up outside every weekday, because it is delicious, cheap, and fast. There are plenty of other examples. The quantity of open air drug use, sales, and other low-level criminality around Civic Center is shocking - it's not an area where you want to spend more time than absolutely necessary. The same group of heroin & crack dealers do business at the top of the BART steps every single day, and the police do nothing about it. The city needs to deal with that first. Perhaps they can spend some of the tremendous tax revenues coming from tech companies, tech workers, and local restaurants on solving that issue.