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by codesterling 3575 days ago
Cash only businesses. Family, friends all eat there for free, like grandma's kitchen used to be. They gotta eat anyway, and it fills out a restaurant. The busier, the more you pad. Give options of top shelf scotches, etc... A guy is celebrating and wants table service, you provide that. Strip clubs, etc... Easy easy ways to either hide what's coming in, or pad what's coming in. Food trucks are brilliant for this, though stretching the definition of restaurant.
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> Food trucks are brilliant for this,

Yes, that would be pretty good. In the right kind of city. Buy a fleet of used food trucks. Pay someone to stick some labels on them. Find what local food trucks pay for produce and maintenance. Maybe ask some friend to drive them around town.

The only problem then is other food trucks would notice this fleet of trucks always driving around yet never stopping to sell anything.

They could sell something really simple -- just hotdogs. And it would be funny, other honest ones would see this plain hotdog business growing and expanding like crazy while they sell organic Korean bbq and don't seem to break even. So they go and expand into the plain hotdog market to capture some of the profits and then realize how unlucky they are when nothing sells. That's a plot of a short movie right there.

Ice cream vans. A fleet of 100. Safe way to go.

(Not fictional.)

Ah yes, the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars
That is truly hilarious. Adding to "new" now.
Agreed. Even better! Not surprising it is not fictional.