In San Francisco, William Fobbs tried to order a pepperoni and mushroom pizza, but both Domino's and Mr. Pizzaman refused to deliver to the tough, predominantly black neighborhood in which he lived. So Fobbs called up his grandmother, Willie Kennedy, a 72-year-old member of San Francisco's governing Board of Supervisors and well-known champion of minority rights. Insisting that what happened to her grandson "can only be because we are black people," Ms. Kennedy successfully sponsored a law that makes it illegal for a pizza restaurant—or any other business—to refuse to deliver in a particular neighborhood that is within its normal service range. However, the California Restaurant Association denounced the requirement to deliver to unsafe neighborhoods, citing numerous assaults and murders of delivery personnel, and claiming it violates federal occupational health and safety laws that bar employers from forcing workers into hazardous situations.

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