{"id":473042,"date":"2026-09-23T12:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473042\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T12:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:30:15","slug":"san-francisco-supervisors-push-to-legalize-home-kitchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473042\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Supervisors Push to Legalize Home Kitchens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assembly Bill 626, which became law in 2019, allows California counties to decide if their residents can sell hot meals out of their own kitchens. <\/p>\n

Jose Velazquez<\/p>\n

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San Francisco District 9 Supervisor, Jackie Fielder, announces that she will vote for a 45 day moratorium on approving new data center construction in the city outside of San Francisco City Hall on September 14, 2026, in San Francisco. Fielder introduced the legislation to support small businesses that start in people\u2019s homes.\u00a0(Miles Cull\/KQED)<\/p>\n

San Francisco<\/a> city officials are introducing new legislation that would allow people to cook and sell food out of their homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Assembly Bill 626<\/a>, which went into effect in January 2019, gives California cities and counties the option to allow \u201cMicroenterprise Home Kitchen Operations\u201d \u2014 which would permit citizens to sell hot meals prepared in their own kitchens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Supervisor Jackie Fielder, along with co-sponsors Supervisors Myrna Melgar, Shamann Walton and Bilal Mahmood, on Tuesday introduced the ordinance for San Francisco to opt into the state law.<\/p>\n

\"\"A customer holds a bacon-wrapped hot dog from a vendor at Fisherman\u2019s Wharf on April 24, 2025.\u00a0(Beth LaBerge\/KQED)<\/p>\n

A group of supporters \u2014 food vendors and advocates \u2014\u00a0joined Fielder at a press conference outside City Hall on Tuesday, holding signs that read, \u201cLet us cook.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we want a San Francisco where small food businesses can start to grow and thrive,\u201d Fielder said, \u201cWe have to make room for the people who are not rich to open up a brick-and-mortar location.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cook Alliance<\/a>, a Bay Area organization that advocates for home cooks and helped pass AB 626, said 79%<\/a> of state operators are people of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assembly Bill 626, which became law in 2019, allows California counties to decide if their residents can sell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-473042","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\/473042","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=473042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}