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1. The gas stove ban is for new buildings. He could open his restaurant in any of the thousands of other spaces available in the area. SF is badly under-leased for commercial space anyway.

2. If this is the worst thing we can find about the ban (a wealthy celebrity chef deciding not to open a chain restaurant in a shopping center) then it has no bearing on my opinion of the ban. We don't complain about bank regulations because they're forced to deny loans to people like this, do we?




Never mind that surely any chef worth their salt is capable of cooking on just about any range? I honestly don't get the gas-range fetishism.




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