He is licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board and the government gets its cut. The gaming board, which reports to Governor JB Pritzker, has licensed Bertucci's Firebird enterprises to legally operate video gambling machines at the diner since 2019. That according to state records. Since then, the records show six gambling devices at the steak and Egger take in a total of more than $4.3 million in bets, roughly 317,000 of that considered net terminal income