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These home kitchens can store, handle and prepare food that may be sold to consumers onsite or via delivery, as long as they meet certain health and sanitation standards that will be regulated by the county. The El Cajon council was unanimous in appreciating the benefits MEHKOs could bring, such as creating economic opportunities for small-scale, home-cooking operations, which are primarily operated by women, immigrants and people of color.

MEHKOs, staff noted, also create a path to supplement family income for those hardest hit by the COVID pandemic, and they enable aspiring restaurateurs to try out and vet a menu while learning the basics of what it takes to run a small-scale retail food operation. The ordinance would legalize local home kitchens that prepare, sell and serve up to 30 meals per day, or 60 meals per week.

El Cajon officials, however, wondered how the county would keep tabs on the number of meals that are served or how it would keep track of the revenue, especially given the likelihood that MEHKOs would be cash-based businesses. City Council members Gary Kendrick and Steve Goble said people in homes offering sales of alcohol, especially if children live on the premises, would be a huge issue in El Cajon.

Goble noted that some areas of the city of , are already limited on the number of businesses allowed by the ABC to sell alcohol. City Council members Michelle Metschel and Phil Ortiz expressed concern about impacts to residential neighborhoods with customers allowed to get delivery, take-out or consume meals on-site.

But Ortiz also relayed a story about how decades ago his grandmother opened restaurant near Wrigley Field in Chicago — and that it started out as a family endeavor inside her home.

While a MEHKO is subject to an annual registration and inspection by the county, outside of a requirement for a business license, no other permits or approvals would be needed by the city of El Cajon. Mayor Bill Wells also expressed irritation with the Board of Supervisors forcing its plans on the city, and told Buonomo to share his thoughts on that with the county. We would respectfully ask the county to leave us alone and let us run the city the way we want to run the city, and to stay out of it.

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