Most people love a home-cooked meal, but charge people money for it and you're breaking the law. But now, in California, the law has changed to allow more people to use their skills in the kitchen to earn a living. Tacos Don Chai is one of the newest restaurants in Martinez. But if it's a dream come true, it's an accidental dream for owner Bryan Gonzalez, who in 2020 was helping manage a restaurant in San Francisco.
Roya Bagheri is CEO of Cook Alliance, the group that spearheaded the legislation.'Most people are actually unaware that it is illegal to sell food out of your home kitchen,' she said, 'not recognizing that they're breaking any law when they're just trying to share their food. So, that's why we helped pass this law in California and are working to spread this across the entire U.S.'They're called 'microenterprise home kitchen operations,' or MEHKO's.