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> restaurants and hospitality in general are absurd cheapskates.

You've never run a bar or restaurant have you. What do you think the profit margins are?

I have never run a bar, but worked in stage lighting, as a bartender and as a cleaner.

And no matter where I worked at, if you'd send in the health department, fire safety inspectors, plumbers, electrical inspectors or cybersecurity experts, you'd find a truckload of code violations, not to mention constant issues with getting paid.

Also, not sure about the US but hospitality industries in Holland tend to be a front for money laundering of criminal enterprises. Especially the really busy city bars/discos. All the cash going around and hard to track numbers of visitors makes it easy to do a number on the tax people.

Also, they can use their enforcers as doormen. Where I'm from most of them had a criminal record even though they managed to obtain the "Tickmark" security logo (though I don't know whether that was legit or fake). Really, that should never be granted to anyone with any kind of violent crime history.

It's the same with a lot of Chinese restaurants. Lots of laundering there :(

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