Restaurant work can be secured by skill reputation alone without licenses

Evidence

I did finger foods at the DGA in 1986 for Donna Deitch’s premiere of Desert Hearts and some of her private home parties, too. I had no business card, no license, no industrial kitchen or employees, but jobs came to me via word of mouth because I was a good cook. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 150

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing whether undocumented (uncertified) catering was common in 1980s LA and how liability worked for hired cooks.
• XREF: connects to: Reputation substitutes for formal enforcement in private trading clubs — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 43

Broader Connections

• Reputation substitutes for formal enforcement in private trading clubs #corroborates (0.85) — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 43