If your host family says the always - empty restaurant down the block is a drug laundering operation, avoid it at all costs. (moneygeek.com)
Marc Epstein, owner of the $ 3 - million Milk Street Cafe, in Boston, discovered that technique more than 10 years ago, when he noticed he had lines out the door at noon but a near - empty restaurant around his 3 p.m. closing time. (inc.com)
That's thanks to Spacious, a startup cofounded by Preston Pesek and Chris Smothers to make use of empty restaurants by offering them up to freelancers and others without an office as an alternative to crowded coffee shops. (entrepreneur.com)