[mysterio]

I am leery of any of those reports, honestly. I heard from people first and secondhand who “saw” the owner of our subway “dancing in the parking lot” with his workers and speaking Arabic. Then I read internet reports about the same thing supposedly happening in a lot of different towns, always at a Subway. It turns out that the guy who owned the restaurant was actually Indian and nothing of the sort happened.

[Mamzelle]

I guess you should be leery of these stories. You have no way of knowing who you're talking to on the net. I believe the stories I told you, I have more than second-hand accounts to go with. And they wouldn't have been speaking Arabic at Subway, it was Farsi. The IHOP guy spoke Arabic, I guess. When your employees show up on Friday for their checks, only to find out that your boss left the country--

Fast food joints and hotel businesses also provide good cover for comings and goings of strangers, a good place for temporary employment.

Local lawyers are good sources for who owns what.