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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by citricsquid on Monday July 16, 2012 @07:16PM (#4253188)
I've looked into how McDonalds franchises work before and have learned about money laundering from Breaking Bad: how would using a franchise make sense? McDonalds (and most other franchise businesses) run very tight ships with stock (and marketing): if a business sells 100 burgers McDonalds is going to know, it seems that if suspicions were ever aroused with this McDonalds all the IRS (or whatever the french tax authority is called) would need to do is talk to McDonalds and compare what the franchise reports to McDonalds vs. what their accounts show?
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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by jlgreco on Monday July 16, 2012 @07:56PM (#4253362)
You throw out the merchandise with the highest profit margins while reporting fake sales.

Bars are traditionally popular for money laundering because everyone pays in cash, liquor has absolutely insane mark-up, and it's really easy to pour it down the drain. I imagine a fastfood restaurant would not work as well, but who knows.

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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by waterlesscloud on Monday July 16, 2012 @08:32PM (#4253479)
Plus if you're not automatically controlling portions, a bottle of liquor can have a very wide range of plausible drinks-sold-per-bottle. Probably by a factor of two or so.
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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by jlgreco on Monday July 16, 2012 @08:43PM (#4253522)
Exactly. You can easily get a few hundred dollars from a single bottle if you do it right. Just think of all those 10-15 USD mixed drinks that have maybe a shot or two of booze in them.
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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by philwelch on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @12:15AM (#4254056)
But then you'd have to account for the mixers.
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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by jlgreco on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @02:53AM (#4254497)
Yes, depending on the drink. You could probably safely forge the accounting for that stuff though, and if not, that stuff is ultra cheap anyway. Soda-water, ice, fruit, etc could all be pretty much ignored.
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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by einhverfr on Monday July 16, 2012 @09:49PM (#4253701)
My brother was in a bar once where he ordered a shot of whisky and it came in at about 4-5 oz or so. Maybe it was money laundering?
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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by rmc on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @05:53AM (#4254978)
it's really easy to pour it down the drain

Or sell it on the black market.

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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by user49598 on Monday July 16, 2012 @07:23PM (#4253211)
and have learned about money laundering from Breaking Bad...

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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by zheng on Monday July 16, 2012 @07:24PM (#4253218)
While I agree, that doesn't really effect their point.
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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by user49598 on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @02:20AM (#4254393)
Breaking bad is not a source for research.
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Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass by shiftpgdn on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @06:49AM (#4255127)
You'd be surprised:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/07/the-un...

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