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The Back-Door “Food for Cash” Trade

At the small restaurant where my friend works in New York, there’s always someone coming to the back door offering “ingredients.” Not suppliers—local residents. They buy meat, milk, and eggs with SNAP and resell them to the restaurant. One day he saw a man holding two big bags of steak: “Forty cash. This is worth eighty.” The owner bought it immediately, even asked him to bring shrimp next time. People say it’s a win-win— they get cash, the restaurant gets cheap supplies. But the truth is: someone’s food benefits are being converted into someone else’s menu profit. And the friend told me: “Watching a $80 steak served for $30 just felt wrong.” #SNAPFraud #FoodResale #RestaurantBackdoor #RealStories #SNAPDebate