A new Jollibee restaurant will open in San Francisco tomorrow, six years after its announcement.<\/p>\n
The restaurant faced many challenges that slowed down its initial opening, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
Mayor Daniel Lurie joined a few devoted citizens and other officials to celebrate the soft opening on Market Street. He also discussed his administrations effort to streamline permitting and other bureocratic obstacles that harm businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s unacceptable that it took six years. And it’s why from day one we’ve been trying to slash the red tape, cut the bureaucracy, get more permits online. 80% of permits right now are done in 30 days or less. Many of them can be done online,” Mayor Lurie said.<\/p>\n
The union representing city IT workers raised red flags about what they allege are security holes in the permitting software that was created by a San Francisco-based tech company called OpenGov.<\/p>\n
But last month, the city’s Civil Service Commission allowed the lucrative contract to remain.<\/p>\n
Supervisor Danny Sauter, the new representative of the district where the restaurant now is, says the permitting process used to be a labyrinth of departments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was, believe it or not, a historic district. And so, there was almost a year of going back and forth between the business and city departments to understand, is this in the district, is it not? What does that actually mean? And that’s a clear example of; we can’t put up with that nonsense in the figure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Beginning tomorrow, devoted Jollibee fans will finally get to enjoy the restaurant’s signature fried chicken and spaghetti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Jollibee restaurant will open in San Francisco tomorrow, six years after its announcement. The restaurant faced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-418901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}