Usually you’re rewarded for showing up early. How could showing up 5 hours early cost you $10,000? [More]
Allstate Denied Man's Insurance Claim Because He Went To The Hospital 5 Hours Too Early
By November 10, 2011
Hundreds Of People's Tax Returns Found Dumped In Front Of Jackson Hewitt Office Because They Were "So Heavy"
By November 4, 2011
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 October 14, 2011
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 October 12, 2011
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]
Diabetic Walgreens Staffer: I Was Fired For Eating A $1.39 Bag Of Chips Before I Paid For Them
By September 12, 2011
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 May 17, 2011
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 April 5, 2011
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 December 30, 2010
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 December 9, 2010
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 December 8, 2010
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 December 7, 2010
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 November 15, 2010
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]
Cops Catch ATM Napkin Scammer
By November 5, 2010
San Francisco PD have caught a crook using an ingeniously low-fi method to rip people off ATMs: napkins. [More]
San Francisco Officially Takes The Happy Out Of Happy Meals
By November 3, 2010
After months of talking about the topic, San Francisco’s board of supervisors has gone and done it, approving a measure that would effectively end the sale of most McDonald’s Happy Meals — and most other fast food kids’ meals — within city limits. [More]
San Francisco One Step Closer To Ruining Happy Meals For Little Kids
By October 5, 2010
Yesterday, the proposed legislation that would remove toys from kids meals in San Francisco unless they met specific health requirement got one step closer to reality, as a board of supervisors committee recommended that the law go before the full board for a vote. [More]
Walmart Is Coming For New York
By September 21, 2010
Thought impervious to Walmart colonization, urban centers like New York and San Francisco are the big box retailer’s next expansion targets. [More]
McDonald's Alienates San Francisco Homeless By Raising Dollar Menu By $.50
By September 7, 2010
We say it a lot around here these days: Times are tough. And they just got tougher for the homeless people in San Francisco who had relied on a local McDonald’s for their discount sustenance. A few weeks back, that particular Golden Arches — located in the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood — jacked up the price on their former Dollar Menu items to $1.50, much to the consternation of the homeless. [More]
Two Delicious Worlds Collide With Red Velvet Fried Chicken
By August 16, 2010
San Francisco continues to confound us… On one hand the city is trying to take all the happy out of Happy Meals; on the other hand, it’s the same place you can now order up a plate of fried chicken coated in a red velvet cake batter. [More]
