Imagine what he wanted from the rich businessman that he wanted to pay or used his power for food. There is no free lunch, might not be even for the restaurant

Imagine what he wanted from the rich businessman that he wanted to pay or used his power for food. There is no free lunch, might not be even for the restaurant people too. My guess is the restaurant people were having their own motivations why they allow them to eat for free. In a corrupt society. Corruption begets corruption. Eventually money is just a means to trade things/services, if you have money going around that doesn't account for things/services, very likely there is tons of cheat/corrupt economy. Imagine this like a kind of inflation, on top of existing inflation.