{"id":70556,"date":"2026-02-03T18:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=70556"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:49:21","slug":"sf-food-street-vendor-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/sf-food-street-vendor-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"S.F. holds street food \u2018pathway\u2019 after Mission vendors raise concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <em>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUXEaBGk69E\/\">post<\/a> from the Food Vendors Committee, vendors and advocates were heard at the Board of Supervisors\u2019 Budget and Finance Committee, which held the proposed street food vending legislation to further investigate concerns they have raised. Organizers said they will return to City Hall next Wednesday at 10 a.m. as discussions continue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>San Francisco is set to take its first vote on Wednesday on a controversial proposal that would create a new permit for street food vending \u2014 a move vendors and advocates say would push many Mission District vendors out of business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carrying a sign that read \u201cwe pay taxes\u201d on one side and \u201cI\u2019m food-prep certificated\u201d on the other, tamale vendor Ana protested the proposal alongside fellow vendors outside the 24th Street BART station on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal is scheduled to be <a href=\"https:\/\/sfgov.legistar.com\/Calendar.aspx\">heard<\/a> by the Board of Supervisors\u2019 Budget and Finance Committee on Wednesday at 10 a.m. A full Board of Supervisors vote is expected on February 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgov.legistar.com\/View.ashx?M=F&amp;ID=15160046&amp;GUID=32AD3E1F-6943-427D-9833-FB2778704FFB\">legislation<\/a> is approved, Ana would be required to prepare her food in a certified commissary kitchen, at a cost of about $30 an hour, more than she makes herself. The requirement would also force her to change her work schedule. Ana begins preparing food at 2 a.m. so she can start selling by 7 a.m., hours when nonprofit commissary kitchens such as La Cocina are closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sfgov.legistar.com\/View.ashx?M=F&amp;ID=14796557&amp;GUID=5684A3F2-50D6-4C86-9AA6-94DC6AAA0C9C\">legislation<\/a> would bring San Francisco\u2019s rules in compliance with the California Retail Food Code after Latino state legislators pushed through <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB972\">SB 972<\/a>, a bill that decriminalized street food vending statewide in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-04.jpg?resize=600%2C399&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-04.jpg?resize=600%2C399&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-04.jpg?resize=360%2C240&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-04.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-04.jpg?resize=1200%2C798&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-04.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-04.jpg?resize=400%2C266&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-04.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yesenia Savill\u00f3n, a single mother of two and a food vendor, holds her 8-month-old son at the 24th Street BART Plaza in the Mission District on Feb. 3, 2026. Savill\u00f3n, who sells tamales and champurrado, said the proposed policy threatens her family\u2019s income. \u201cRight now we\u2019re very frustrated because our families depend on our sales,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have to find a way to keep selling to pay the bills.\u201d Photo: Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote\/CatchLight Local<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than legalizing vending outright, the ordinance creates Compact Mobile Food Operations (CMFOs), a new permit category for non-motorized food vendors operating from carts, pushcarts or stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>El Tecolote<\/em> first <a href=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/sf-mission-street-vendors-crackdown\/\">reported<\/a> in September that the city\u2019s proposed CMFO permit, framed by officials as a \u201cpathway\u201d to legalization, would likely be out of reach for many informal vendors due to commissary requirements, equipment costs and stepped-up enforcement. Vendors warned then that the proposal risked dismantling street vending altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the ordinance, CMFOs would be classified as low-, moderate or high-risk operations depending on the type of food sold and the level of preparation involved. Permit and plan-check fees would range from $188 to $502.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vendors would still be required to obtain permits from the Department of Public Health and the Department of Public Works, and in some cases the Fire Department, and to comply with state health code requirements around food preparation, equipment and handwashing facilities .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vendors and advocates have pointed to an alternative model not included in the City\u2019s proposal: the Micro Enterprise Home Kitchen Operation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CEH\/DFDCS\/Pages\/FDBPrograms\/FoodSafetyProgram\/MicroenterpriseHomeKitchenOperations.aspx\">(MEHKO)<\/a>, a 2018 California law already enacted in Los Angeles. MEHKOs allow food to be prepared in home kitchens for sale. The proposal would require the City to oversee and regulate private home kitchens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While San Francisco\u2019s proposal would streamline the permitting process and forgive first-year fees, it would also require vendors who sell fresh fruit and hot food prepared on site, to use standardized carts costing around $15,000, a prohibitive expense for many vendors whose only source of income is selling food on the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-05.jpg?resize=600%2C399&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-05.jpg?resize=600%2C399&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-05.jpg?resize=360%2C240&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-05.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-05.jpg?resize=1200%2C798&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-05.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-05.jpg?resize=400%2C266&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02032026-MISSIONVENDORBAN-ET-PU-05.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edgar Rafael, a local food vendor at the 24th Bart Plaza during a press conference after the city proposed a policy requiring more restrictions on food vending in San Francisco, Calif., on Feb. 3, 2026. \u201cI\u2019m a little frustrated because my family depends on me,\u201d Rafael said, who sells Guatemalan food in the neighborhood. \u201cThey [the city] don\u2019t see the effort we put in to be here for our business, so for them, they just remove us without knowing what we go through.\u201d Photo: Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote\/CatchLight Local<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many vendors were able to attend the protest because San Francisco police have swept many unlicensed vendors off the Mission Street corridor since Saturday, ahead of the Super Bowl events in the city, according to a police officer in the vicinity who asked not to be quoted.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As enforcement has intensified, vendors have increasingly organized. Andrea Guirola, a street food vendor, has become a leader and advocate for a 60-strong group of Mission District street food vendors organized through the Food Vendors Committee, with support from Nuestra Causa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Guirola and several vendors knocked on Supervisor\u2019s doors to ask for their support .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome locked their doors,\u201d Guirola said. \u201cOthers, like Jackie Fielder, were extremely welcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cecilia, a 46-year-old who has made a living selling tamales in the Mission District for five years, said the proposal would leave vendors with no viable options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMine is decent work, but the little I make would all go to (satisfy) the City,\u201d she said. \u201cThis [ordinance] would take us to the brink of stealing in order to eat. Who wins from that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> <em>This story has been updated to name the Food Vendors Committee and t<em>o correct the timing of the Board of Supervisors vote. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Board of Supervisors\u2019 Budget and Finance Committee held the proposed street food vending legislation to further investigate concerns vendors have raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88922,"featured_media":70501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"above","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[25332],"class_list":["post-70556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Street food \u2018pathway\u2019 heads to SF vote; 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