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San Francisco Airport Opens Free Yoga Room For Tense Travelers
By Chris Morran on January 25, 2012 2:30 PM
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For many travelers, the idea of just going to the airport — and finding a place to park, checking your bags, picking up your ticket, waiting at security, hoping you don't get the extra-special touchy-feely pat-down, putting all your stuff back together after going through the checkpoint, finding your gate, paying $5 for a bottle of water — is a bit of a stressful situation. So the folks at San Francisco International are opening a yoga room for you to work out all that tension while waiting for your connecting flight. More »
Anti-SOPA Protests Planned Around The Country Today
By Chris Morran on January 18, 2012 4:06 AM
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Even though the House Judiciary Committee has moved its planned hearing on the Stop Internet Piracy Act from today until February — perhaps hoping that we'll all be too hungover from Super Bowl beer and wings to care — that's not going to stop people who are peeved about SOPA and its Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act, from taking to the streets to have their say. More »
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San Francisco Begins Roll-Out Of Pay-By-Phone Parking Meters
By Chris Morran on December 15, 2011 1:15 PM
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Because apparently paying by cash or credit card is too old-school for some folks, the city of San Francisco has begun rolling out parking meters that allow smartphone users to feed the meter with a wave of their handheld mobile communications device. More »
San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City To Cross $10 Minimum Wage Line
By Chris Morran on December 12, 2011 2:30 PM
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When the calendar flips over to 2012, minimum wage workers in San Francisco will be making a bit more, as the city becomes the first local in the U.S. with a bottom-line pay rate of more than $10/hour. More »
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San Francisco Scammer Posing As Bank Manager To Fleece Old Women
By Chris Morran on December 8, 2011 5:00 PM
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Police in San Francisco say a seedy character has scammed elderly women, ranging from 83 to 92 years old, out of thousands of dollars by pretending to be a bank manager. More »
(SA_Steve)
San Francisco Burger Kings Also Charging $.10 To Get Around Kids' Meal Toy Ban
By Chris Morran on December 1, 2011 12:15 PM
45 Comments
Today, San Francisco's dreaded ban on including free toys in fast food kids' meals kicks in. McDonald's has already announced that it will get around the regulation by charging an additional $.10 for the definitely-not-covered-in-lead-paint-and-cadmium toys. And because everyone loves a loophole, the royal court of the Burger King has ruled that it will also follow suit. More »
McDonald's Gets Around San Francisco Happy Meal Ban By Charging You For The Toy
By Chris Morran on November 30, 2011 1:40 PM
67 Comments
After a seemingly endless amount of debating, various votes, a mayoral veto and whatnot, the San Francisco that puts an end to the practice of including toys and other giveaway gimmicks in Happy Meals (and many other fast food kids' meals with similar freebies) kicks in later this week. But the folks at McDonald's have devised a clever plan to get those Shrek movie promo toys in your little ones' hands — by simply charging for them. More »
Allstate Denied Man's Insurance Claim Because He Went To The Hospital 5 Hours Too Early
By Ben Popken on November 10, 2011 5:00 PM
139 Comments
Usually you're rewarded for showing up early. How could showing up 5 hours early cost you $10,000? More »
Hundreds Of People's Tax Returns Found Dumped In Front Of Jackson Hewitt Office Because They Were "So Heavy"
By Ben Popken on November 4, 2011 1:00 PM
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A soggy pile of hundreds of old tax returns was found in front of an abandoned Jackson Hewitt tax prep office in San Francisco in late October. The papers had social security numbers, names, addresses, and phone numbers, a potential goldmine for any identity thief who got their hands on them. More »
Are San Francisco Restaurants Actually Pushing To Make 25% The Standard Tip?
By Chris Morran on October 14, 2011 2:39 PM
185 Comments
Earlier this week, a writer for the San Jose Mercury News posted a story claiming that wait staff and high-end restaurants in San Francisco are behind a move to make 25% tips standard across the city. But is this actually true or just hype? More »
SF Giants, MLB Sued Over "San Francisco" Logo
By Chris Morran on October 12, 2011 4:17 PM
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If you've ever visited San Francisco, you've likely seen — and perhaps purchased — a coat or sweatshirt emblazoned with the city name in a distinctive script font, much like the "San Francisco" on jackets and other gear worn by the San Francisco Giants baseball team. Well, now the team, along with Major League Baseball, finds itself in a legal battle with the apparel company that says it owns the trademark. More »
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Diabetic Walgreens Staffer: I Was Fired For Eating A $1.39 Bag Of Chips Before I Paid For Them
By Chris Morran on September 12, 2011 3:30 PM
206 Comments
A former San Francisco-area Walgreens worker with diabetes says she was fired from her job of nearly two decades because, feeling a hypoglycemic attacking coming, she chose to eat a $1.39 bag of potato chips before she had the chance to pay for them. More »
San Francisco On Track To Ban Yellow Pages
By Ben Popken on May 17, 2011 5:00 PM
148 Comments
San Francisco, the city that likes to ban everything that makes this country great, like plastic bags and Happy Meals, is just one more round of voting to do away with another American staple. No longer will its citizens be able to depend on their annual free doorstop upgrade in the form of a Yellow Pages phone book plopped in front of their abode. If the bill, read it here (PDF) passes, the company will have to confirm that the residents actually want one first. That should only cut down their market share in the city by roughly... most people. More »
New York City Council To Consider Happy Meal Ban
By Chris Morran on April 5, 2011 3:30 PM
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Months after San Francisco's city government voted to effectively ban fast food kids' meals by requiring that they meet certain health requirements, legislators in New York City may soon face a similar decision. More »
Hotel Washes Every Coin They Get As Courtesy For Guests
By Ben Popken on December 30, 2010 1:00 PM
109 Comments
As a favor to guests, one hotel washes every coin it receives, just like it's done since 1938. More »
Dismissed Macy's Santa Finds New Gig... At A Bar
By Chris Morran on December 9, 2010 1:40 PM
25 Comments
Many of you will remember the story from the other day of how a San Francisco Macy's kicked its long-time Santa to the curb after he made a slightly off-color comment to some adult shoppers. Well it looks like at least someone in the Bay Area has the holiday spirit, because Santa has found new employment where he won't have to worry about saying something inappropriate. More »
Wisconsin Town Rejects Happy Meal Ban
By Chris Morran on December 8, 2010 10:36 AM
48 Comments
While politicians in San Francisco go back and forth about whether or not to effectively ban the sale of kid's meals that include toys, the city council of Superior, WI, has roundly dismissed a similar proposal. More »
Macy's Santa Gets Saucy, Ends Up On Unemployment Line
By Chris Morran on December 7, 2010 2:40 PM
88 Comments
After two decades of listening to the wish lists of kids of all ages at the Union Square Macy's in San Francisco, Santa Claus is out on his jolly old ass. And it's all over a joke he claims he's told thousands of times before. More »
San Francisco Mayor Vetoes Happy Meal 'Ban'
By Chris Morran on November 15, 2010 1:20 PM
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has made good on his earlier promises that he would veto the recently passed kids meal ban (which isn't actually a ban, but new regulations that would effectively ban most kids meals from being sold in the city as they are currently configured). More »
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Cops Catch ATM Napkin Scammer
By Ben Popken on November 5, 2010 4:00 PM
83 Comments
San Francisco PD have caught a crook using an ingeniously low-fi method to rip people off ATMs: napkins. More »
