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I live across the street from a place I can't imagine being anything other than a front. Their food is terrible, limited menu, they have events often where only a couple people show up, the lot is big and in a prime location, often VERY expensive cars are parked there, and it isn't uncommon to see unmarked vans at the loading dock. Like I joke a lot about places being fronts, but this one I legit believe couldn't be anything else
There's a restaurant space near me that shares a building with a coin laundry, this space has different restaurants cycle in and out at least once a year. I never see anyone eating there, and everything about the interior screams "minimum required to stay open"
Sounds like several places near here, which are just shitty places to have a restaurant but people keep trying.
Coin laundry places are a great way to launder money.
Pun very much intended.
But also it's true. All cash, no way to track customers.
Thats the origin of the term: https://oxfordre.com/criminology/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264079-e-708