Yeah, a cheap joint is usually paying cash without proper rates and benefits (the staff being complicit and not declaring income/violating visa work restriction

Yeah, a cheap joint is usually paying cash without proper rates and benefits (the staff being complicit and not declaring income/violating visa work restrictions if not local). In these places the credit card machine is often ‘broken’ or there is a 5% discount for paying cash. I’ve even seen a place that was ‘cash only’ and had built an ATM right next to the cash register in the middle of the restaurant so you couldn’t complain. In Australia it isn’t helped by a labor law system so complicated that even large firms with HR and finance departments the size of a small army can’t pay people properly.