John Drivas Red's Kitchen And Tavern

Between January 2016 to October 2022, Drivas was the owner and operator of three restaurants: Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem, Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody and Red's Seabrook in Seabrook, N.H. He was the sole shareholder of the Salem restaurant until he sold it to an employee in September 2022. John Drivas, the sole owner of Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody, was ordered to serve one year and one day in prison and one year of supervised release afterward.

Red's restaurant owner John Drivas gets jail time for failing to collect and pay taxes and for wire fraud. John Drivas, a 66-year-old restaurateur from Hampton, N.H., was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for tax fraud involving federal employment taxes and state meals taxes. Drivas, the owner of Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem, Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody, and Red's Seabrook in Seabrook paid "under-the-table" wages of $1,496,417 to multiple restaurant employees and did not report those wages to the IRS or pay employment taxes on them from at least January 2017 to June 2022, causing more than $439,000.

Drivas was the owner and operator of three restaurants: Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem, Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody, and Red's Seabrook in Seabrook, NH. John Drivas was also ordered to pay more than $1.5 million to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and more than $439,000 to the IRS, prosecutors said. John Drivas, 66, of Hampton, New Hampshire, admitted Friday that he failed to collect and pay nearly $440,000 in payroll taxes for workers at Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem, Massachusetts, Red's.

Drivas owned and operated Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody, Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem and Red's Seabrook from 2016 to 2022. John Drivas, 66, was the owner and operator of Red's Sandwich Shop in Salem, Mass., Red's Kitchen and Tavern in Peabody, Mass., and Red's Seabrook in Seabrook, N.H, according to a statement.