Probably all of it! If they settled on one thing and did it good I bet they’d make a killing. It’s right on a corner by a junior high, very residential, and there are always lineups at the wash bays on a nice day. Just not schwarma, there is an awesome place about a block up the road already.
This Korean restaurant in Florence, KY next to I-75 almost never has customers. Their website does nothing to dispel my suspicions.
Some of the Yahoo reviews wonder if it’s a front.
It’s certainly uncontaminated by Prosciutto.
Makes sense if there is a regulation about needing to serve food to get a booze license. They are probably using the weird restaurant as teh food portion of the operation.
Old but related thread:
Wow, that place has A LOT of sushi and korean Barbeque! They even had to list them twice!
I’m amused that I’m familiar with two of these locations on the list but never considered the possibility of them being fronts. I lived in Lexington for 13 years, for most of it NEAR Sir Pizza, and never tried it or knew anyone that did. And my boyfriend’s from Florence, and we’ve passed that restaurant many times, rarely seeing anyone there.
I’m originally from WV, and there was a Tim Horton’s in town that my mom and uncle thought was a front for something. I had to explain to them that it wasn’t a front, just Canadian.
There’s an “appliance repair shop” not far from here that is a known front. Nobody I know has ever seen an appliance go in or out of the place, much less taken anything there for repair themselves. Apparently, in their case, they front for a bookie joint rather than launder money.
Here’s the Yelp listing for Lucerne’s. Only 3 reviews, the last being posted in 2009. Rockford might not be hotbed of Yelp users though. The overall ratings are pretty poor.
Someone once showed me an “ice cream store” near his work that was open all winter and always had black Lincolns parked outside.
That’s not an appliance repair shop, it’s a furniture store. I know because I lived across the street from it.
The line about a “car and dog wash” is KILLING me here!
~VOW
There’s a place about a mile from where I live that’s next to a Goodwill. It looks completely out of place and I never see anyone there no matter what time of the day I go by. It’s a nice little building, but there’s never anyone parked there. We call it the CIA building. I don’t know what it really is (apparently some kind of architectural firm) but it seems odd that it appears to have no employees. We joke that most of it is actually underground, and I think people must be getting in through a secret entrance in the back of the Goodwill store or something.
You aren’t afraid of the hoser mafia, eh?
I’m amazed that I never posted this in that thread.
When I lived in the Lake Nokomis neighborhood of Minneapolis in my ex-wife’s house circa 2003, there was a little Italian named pizza place just SE of us a fair number of blocks. Only ever saw gangbangers in there. Only a few people I’d talked to even knew it existed and no one could never recall anyone actually ordering from the place.
I have to admit, I was like 1/10th tempted to walk up to the place just to see how they reacted.
But you know, why would I bother testing some hole in the wall gang-run pizza place when the best place around delivered.
That’s what it is, a car wash (drive in bay, pressure washer type) a dog wash (in a door, I’ve never been in but probably tubs to wash dogs in) and the restaurant. 
Oh, and I found the name of the restaurant! (I didn’t know it to look at the building, they advertise so much of what they make you can’t tell the name!) it’s called Sushi and Bubble Tea.
Right here. And yeah, it’s a little creepy.
To get a link like that, go to the upper right of the sidebar and clink the button with the chainlink on it. The URL is in the box that pops up, and you can shorten it there if you want.
And on further reading, both my link and advice are unnecessary. Shoulda read the whole thread first.
I’ve been in the Nashville area for 17 years and have only ever eaten in one. If it was any kind of example, there’s a reason there are rarely many cars there. I’ve seen a number of them locally and they’re all 70s style architecture with few visable customers. Personally, I think it’s just a chain that’s seen better days.
It’s possible that someone may actually be living there. I had some people in college who were renting a shopfront and using in as an apartment.