Finance Professor Wrote:
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> If this place isn't a money laundering operation,
> I don't know what is.
>
> Sammy screamed 'Don't call the police'. This was
> one of the only things he really stood up to his
> wife on. I think Sammy is involved in serious
> criminal shit and he doesn't want Johnny Law to
> come poking around and causing any disruptions to
> the money losing business here. I’m not sure if
> the fact that they don’t trust anyone else to
> run the place has anything to do with that, or
> whether they’re just nuts. If they were smarter,
> I feel like they could let it run itself. See
> point #4 for a possible reason for that.
>
> The place is clearly hemorrhaging money. All those
> fresh veggies come at a huge premium in Arizona
> and no one is buying them since no one eats there.
> This is a tactic to inflate food costs and make
> the on-the-books profits (from crime) a bit more
> believable. You have high prices and ‘quality
> ingredients’ and on its face, it looks like a
> classy place dealing in high-quality, high-margin
> food that’s doing very, very well. In reality,
> they’re buying top-dollar with dirty money and
> selling nothing.
>
> Putting all of that money into the facilities,
> kitchen equipment and the dining area is a way to
> build tangible equity in a property, paid for by
> dirty money, of course. This is similar to how
> house flipping has become the new Las Vegas for
> cleaning dirty money. Even if you put 100k of
> criminal money into a house and sell it for 80k,
> you still made 80k in clean money (and the write
> off for the business loss – more clean money).
> And what you ask is Sammi’s other
> ‘legitimate’ business enterprise? Custom home
> building. Same fucking principle: Build equity in
> something tangible with dirty money, sell it (at a
> loss or profit, who gives a fuck) and money comes
> clean out the other side.
>
> The compensation structure for servers is just
> another money cleaning tactic. The money from tips
> never hits the books. It’s pocketed immediately
> and spent on gas, food, clothes etc. All the sorts
> of stuff that is bought in a day that isn’t
> traced and is used up (burned, eaten, thrown out
> etc.) when it’s done. You keep the clean,
> un-traceable cash coming in (tips), and then pay
> out more money in wages to lose money so that the
> money that comes in from crime doesn’t make the
> place look TOO profitable. If they weren’t so
> wretched and money hungry they would just let the
> girls work on tips like most people, but they’re
> so narcissistic, deluded and downright evil that
> they think they’re entitled to it and don’t
> know when to stop.
>
> They are mean to people because well, they’re
> nuts, but also because Sammy doesn’t actually
> give much of a fuck if many people come in or not.
> If a few quiet, agreeable customers come in and
> eat, so be it. For Sammy, this place is an
> annoyance. He hates being there and knows it’s a
> waste of his legitimate criminal time to have to
> deal with it. He was just stupid and married a
> crazy ‘trophy wife’ who thinks she can cook
> and the less he has to do in a day in terms of
> dealing with angry customers, the better. Hell, he
> might have married her BECAUSE he thought she was
> stupid enough to believe she’s making money when
> no one comes in. To me that’s why a lot of that
> bad food is just thrown away; otherwise she gets
> crazy and causes more disruptions to the fence.
>
> Ever wonder why he doesn’t know how to use the
> POS system, but insists on using it? Because one
> day one of those girls is going to see ALL of
> these tables and checks listed on there that never
> actually came in, and then she’ll ask why. Since
> she knows more about the system than he, she
> won’t buy the lie he tells her. I wouldn’t be
> surprised if that’s a small part of the reason
> for the staff turnover: They don’t want anyone
> knowing too much.
>
> Because the thing is, at the end of the day, he
> can just make up checks and bills and act like all
> these customers came in and paid them lots of
> money for food, but just as long as the place
> isn’t completely empty all the time and then
> reporting big profits, there shouldn’t be any
> huge red flags so as long as the taxes keep coming
> into the IRS and the place keeps a quiet
> reputation.
>
> As far as why they would go on tv for help,
> remember, Amy thinks her problem is not her food,
> their shared attitude, their sparse staff or her
> creepy eyes. It's internet haters. That's it. She
> is perfect in every way. She feels the downturn in
> her business is due solely to bad publicity. For
> people with such grandiose self-images, the only
> way to deal with this would be to go to the very
> top and have the biggest chef in the world come
> and say that their food is amazing. Bad publicity
> problem solved.
>
> Note too, those awesome desserts she fed Ramsey,
> that he really liked, were all store bought. But
> she claimed they were hers. She does not care
> about the food in that sense, as she's willing to
> lie about that as the first step to the good
> publicity that she thinks is the silver bullet to
> fixing what she feels to be unjustifiably
> tarnished public image.
>
> From Sammy's perspective, I think he's willing to
> take the small risk of having the cover blown on
> any laundering operation to sustain a good front
> and, like his wife, to try to, in his mind,
> restore the deservedly good reputation the place
> should rightly have. If he can somehow appease his
> wife, who I believe has him convinced she can
> cook, and keep the restaurant full so he doesn't
> need to butcher the receipts so much, he might be
> able to stop doing shady shit altogether or at
> least have a better front. Then, if the restaurant
> is running well, he can leave it for someone else
> to operate and he can stay home and watch Scarface
> 50 times.
>
> Essentially, I think HIS willingness to take this
> risk is rooted in their shared delusions about
> their own self values and they are willing to take
> the most drastic of measures to keep them as high
> as possible.
Great copypasta from Reddit, "Professor. Go down about 7 or so comments.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/1eav6z/amys_baking_company_resells_store_bought_food_and/