Local corporations and businesses that fail to comply with a newly adopted law requiring them to pay a mandated amount of money toward the health insurance of their employees will not be held accountable unless someone complains or until a required compliance report is filed with The City at the end of the year.

Restaurant patrons in the city will no longer see glasses of water automatically appear on their tables while they study the menu.

Serving up a top-selling restaurant in The City is like following in the footsteps of Rice-A-Roni: you have to get tourists and locals believing it’s a San Francisco treat, according to local eatery owners.

The city requirement that employers spend money on health care for employees goes before a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel today as local businesses go into a holding pattern before they commit funds to The City’s universal health care program.