San Francisco Wants to Take Bite Out of Employee Cafeterias (1)

Food-happy San Francisco wants to ban employers in the city from setting up new facilities that have free on-site employee cafeterias in an effort to boost local restaurant business.

San Francisco-based tech companies such as Twitter Inc., Salesforce.com, and Uber Technologies Inc. all offer workers an array of free goodies to keep employees happy, fed, and on premises. But the city, in a proposed ordinance to be introduced July 24, wants to stop other companies from setting up new facilities that have on-site cafeterias.

The proposal is backed by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, a trade association that represents 4,400 ...