Restaurants famously have a high fail rate, about 80% fail within 5 years so your assertion should be wrong.
But if it starts as a front and is artificially propped for 5 years, then it becomes an institution in the neighborhood and probably brute-forced a few regular customers so it might end up being profitable by accident.
Restaurant fronts usually don’t last long as fronts because they end up making more money legitimately.
Restaurants famously have a high fail rate, about 80% fail within 5 years so your assertion should be wrong.
But if it starts as a front and is artificially propped for 5 years, then it becomes an institution in the neighborhood and probably brute-forced a few regular customers so it might end up being profitable by accident.
“I was at X lately, kinda okay but damn not a soul.”
“Yeah, ate there too. But they need to do something right if they are still around, eh?”
Meanwhile a guy who is responsible for this laundering location feels weirdly proud for no reason