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If the price remains the same, is it a possible way to launder money?
If you had someone on both the inside and outside you could gradually steal the exact amount of food that would be missing from inventory and sell it for clean cash.
Not with a receipt that detailed presumably tracked by transaction number in the computer system which also is tied to an inventory system.
Unless of course you’d worked that into the software too.
Anyways. Yes.
But also no.
Maybe.
The laundering would come from making extra profit per bs sold because its charged as a full burger but only takes a cheese slice out of your inventory/stock cost. You'd lose some of it to franchise overhead and a corporate analyst would probably catch it at a chain when they get greedier but you could do small scale laundering for a while if you didn't get greedy.
but the system would account for the lack of inventory loss, so it would become increasingly hard to justify this.
If it was a mom and pop, easy.
McDonald’s, yeah for a little while but I bet they’d catch you stealing from them before someone caught you laundering money.
Who would catch this, though?
The question asked is whether a franchise owner could use fake orders to use dirty money and boost clean profits. What does the inventory have to do with anything? The franchise owner doesn't care, because they're the ones doing the money laundering. And McDonald's corporate doesn't care because they still get paid.
It doesn't seem like a particularly efficient method of money laundering, but I am curious to know if this could feasibly be a pipeline for cleaning money in small quantities.
Each extra wish costs extra
even the wish to not have things?
Especially the wish to not have things