Restaurants work as part of a larger money-laundering operation, though. Cash washes through the till in the restaurant, and you sign the receipts for all the n

Restaurants work as part of a larger money-laundering operation, though. Cash washes through the till in the restaurant, and you sign the receipts for all the non-existent food your buddy's supplier sends you. There are probably some other dodges I'm not aware of. Source: worked for a mob-adjacent restaurant in London. (Excellent food, though, and in a nice location; it had celebrity guests in on the regular.) I got curious watching the owner ringing in ticket after ticket and stuffing the register with £50 notes, then once I saw a couple of inflated invoices it all made sense. A while later the Met took down the owner's cousin, and the restaurant closed shortly thereafter. It was an awful place to work (top tip: don't work for, or with, coke fiends; functional heroin addicts are fine), but goodness was that an education. I was an illegal immigrant at the time, so I didn't have many options.