Restaurants and their owners are notoriously bad at the internet.
I have a friend in Seattle who became known as a reliable web developer for new restaurants.
He took credit to eat rather than cash to do this relatively simple work for them. As a result, every time I’d visit we’d eat at some nice newer place on his credit line, responsible only for tips. It felt like minor celebrity.
I suppose this is what newer website platforms are for but frankly I think even weebly is somehow too much for many.
He was a VP for a big tech co in Seattle, and was getting $300-400 a site so this was more about knowing the restaurant community and doing a hobby not some elaborate tax scheme.
You can dodge more taxes in Seattle driving down to Portland to buy a MacBook.
Sorry, but that just isn't how it works. If you perform a service for restaurants and you don't invoice them but eat there instead of getting paid that's two helpings of tax fraud. Whether it is 'for a hobby' or not is irrelevant, someone else who did play by the book and for who it wasn't a hobby probably missed a bunch of sales because your buddy was willing to do this 'on the side' for shit & giggles because he already had an income stream.
I have a friend in Seattle who became known as a reliable web developer for new restaurants.
He took credit to eat rather than cash to do this relatively simple work for them. As a result, every time I’d visit we’d eat at some nice newer place on his credit line, responsible only for tips. It felt like minor celebrity.
I suppose this is what newer website platforms are for but frankly I think even weebly is somehow too much for many.