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The longstanding feud between old and new in San Francisco has found a fresh battleground: lunch.

In a move meant to wrest tech workers from their increasingly luxurious offices, two members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors have proposed an ordinance to ban new corporate offices from including cafeterias. They hope this would force workers to mingle socially with others in the city and support local restaurants, which sprung up around tech headquarters only to find disappointing traffic.

Aaron Peskin, a sponsor of the measure, said he knew it was a “nanny state” ordinance, but countered that all zoning is exactly that.

To live in San Francisco in 2018 is a vexing situation. The streets can be alarming scenes of human misery. The rents are astronomical. The ideas coming out of warehouses and bedrooms may be brilliant, but they never seem to improve the spaces we all share. And tensions continue to rise.