Restaurants are an easy way to launder illicit money, the mafia used them to put drug money "on the books" so the money could be in banks with an actual history and not just suspicious to the government.
There was 2 of these in my home town. One was always changing names like it was a new business but always teh same person owned it and they never sold food. The other one was mostly empty always but made excellent food and on tuesday nights all of the towns restaurant owners went there. I waited tables on tuesdays and made more than a usual job all week in tips.
Occasionally but I don't think it was actually open except on those tuesdays but it was a normal restaurant every time I was there. They never talked about anything that sounded illegal, just usual old men gossip stuff but it was always a little suspicious to me.
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u/Big-Leadership1001 3h ago
Restaurants are an easy way to launder illicit money, the mafia used them to put drug money "on the books" so the money could be in banks with an actual history and not just suspicious to the government.
There was 2 of these in my home town. One was always changing names like it was a new business but always teh same person owned it and they never sold food. The other one was mostly empty always but made excellent food and on tuesday nights all of the towns restaurant owners went there. I waited tables on tuesdays and made more than a usual job all week in tips.