Just to provide some background, what the city requires is to bring an ID together with one of: 1. white vaccine card 2. photo of the card on your phon

Just to provide some background, what the city requires is to bring an ID together with one of: 1. white vaccine card 2. photo of the card on your phone 3. QR code from an approved app 4. screenshot of QR code from an approved app. https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/vaccine-verification-sites.pdf https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/vaccine-verification-... Note that the actual QR code is only valid for 24 hours, but due to issues with the software, people were told to take a screenshot and keep reusing the same QR code. Restaurants don't have any online connection to the CDC database (or private card servers) to verify the QR codes anyway. Obviously this system is trivial to bypass as you can photoshop an existing image of a card and put your name on it. There is no online verification happening, the restaurant just checks that the card looks filled in, or the QR code looks sufficiently QR-like, and then verifies that the name on the card/QR is the same as the name on the ID. To help understand the issues local businesses face, there is an article in mission local: https://missionlocal.org/2021/09/vaccine-card-mandate-pushes-local-businesses-to-breaking-point/ https://missionlocal.org/2021/09/vaccine-card-mandate-pushes... There appear to be two big frictions here: - a lot of people either don't have IDs or are uncomfortable showing an ID to eat (SF does not require an ID to vote). - the CDC database used to generate a good QR code is filled with incomplete and dirty data, with customers identified by email address or name or phone number, and lots of inconsistencies. This means a lot of people have trouble generating a valid QR code even if they were vaccinated. Maybe they used a phone number for shot 1 and an email address for shot 2, and the system isn't able to tie these together. Here the original policy of "You don't need an ID to get a vaccine" is coming back to bite people. I would add a third: - People coming from overseas have neither of the above (note that the in-n-out that was shut is in fisherman's wharf, which is filled with foreign tourists). I happen to know from hearsay (friends still living in SF) that a lot of restaurants are not checking, so it's not just in-n-out -- perhaps the city is trying to make an example of them. It's also true that restaurants have lost a lot of business even though if you eat outside or takeout then you don't need to show proof of vaccine status and 73% of restaurants have setup outdoor areas for people who don't want to deal with the ID stuff. Here the issue is the people most afraid of covid stopped going to restaurants a while ago and switched to Uber eats or take out. The ones still showing up for indoor dining are the ones who care the least about the disease. It's also a lot easier to just go to Daly city and eat there without needing to provide an ID. SF is just a 7 by 7 mile city, it's a little odd for it to be creating its own vaccine policy as if it was a country. Needless to say, a majority of SF restaurants oppose the policy: https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/61-of-restaurant-operators-disagree-with-vaccine-mandate-study-shows/607971/ https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/61-of-restaurant-operato...