JoB
TheHouse…
If restaurants are illegally hiring staff off the books and paying them under the table.. they generally don’t last too long…
It may surprise you to know that the IRS is just a little picky about getting all of it’s money…
and if a restaurant isn’t hiring enough staff for their revenue.. they find themselves investigated pretty quickly.
last jobs i held in the restaurant business were mgmt… of small places as well as larger…
and the number of employees at these small restaurants that are hired off the books and find a way not to pay taxes on their tips would have to be statistically small…
i would guess far smaller than self employed businessmen who claim offices they don’t actually use.. and bring family along on business trips on the company dollar.. and…
i did taxes for a while too:)