Variable but choice businesses
[QUOTE=BunnyMeat;6038119]The providers keep the tip. So the owners of the single shop, if they are getting around 50-60% of the house fee, do not make as much as the popular providers (11 customers a day!) you mentioned, unless they are providers themselves. They pay rent, utilities bills, at least some taxes. But 11 customers in a single day is extraordinary.[/QUOTE]The Beach Boys sang about this. Only Gods really knows. Main point here is that regardless of how the shop and business is configured, and the number of staff under one roof contributing house fees to the owners, the owners choose to own, and work too or not, and (with the exception of the smaller minority of instances where they are coerced to work) the MPs choose to work where and when they want because they like the tax-free money. Who doesn't have lists of providers in their wechat to track them because they have the freedom to choose to move around for better money / location or a different boss? The original post that got this started about do they make boatloads of money, the good ones do, the good shops do, the open menu ones do. Owners and MPs bring it in. In talking about cars, jewelry and luxury fashion, we overlooked houses, which we don't see. House are of key importance to Chinese women. Either alone or in combination with others, real estate ownership is important. All from income sources they choose, not trafficked.