Well, I have made some interesting findings. I I can reaffirm myself in my first statement. I´m almost sure that the features of the tavern are not fully implemented yet or it´s bugged.
I start my run as I said. Doyle Alone, helping him with carousing and increasing the roll of the tavern as the reputation goes up. Makes sense, if your tavern it´s unknown, makes no sense to have a big payroll, sitting bored waiting for the 4 customer of the day to come in. As your name grow, you increase your crew. And man, it worked like a charm!!!
If you remember, letting Doyle alone and making a dry run the best result I get at day 12 was Rep +70.Well, with a carousing help and increasing the payroll of the tavern the self increase of the reputation of the tavern gets to 70 not after 12 days, but just after six. Then I have a lull, going down to no increase or small ones when I crossed the barrier of 200 till 350 rep, but that was solved introducing gambling and whoring. I suspect that you must introduce one of them when you cross the 200 and the other the 300 threshold. Every thing was all right, and I was making roughly 100-120$ of profit per worker, with a basic tavern with no upgrades. May be not great, but not bad at all, I will say...
And then, things start to get south.
First of all, I send some whores to the tavern. The red shoes icon ones. Well, they have the red shoe icon. They are full service, they are corruption 60+, they have no other job, and they appear in the tavern management roll. And by chance, Icanos crossed at this moment the 75 corruption mark, so no need to pay the pesky 150$ bribe, nice!. But I get no significant increase in the tavern income, and I get no income in the business management page under the line whores.
And then, the second puzzling event. The run was made in a Grimdark, Dying word with very low control and one day the control went down to Anarchy. Well, good science requires to keep things consistent, so I assembly a hunter-killer group and went out of home to clean these pesky red puppets and bring Ikanos from Anarchy to mere Disorder. And in the Hunter killer group, as a followers, I have 2 of the 4 tavern workers, Aiko and the Ex-Arena champion. And I forgot to dismiss my followers before hitting the end of day button, so I went from a Tavern with Doyle+4 workers to a Tavern with Doyle and just two workers. And then I visit the tavern expecting to see a significant reduction of the income. But no. The income have remained the same, or in the same ballpark (there are an element of randomness in the tavern income). Well, then I make a try. Remove all the workers and let Doyle alone. The income remains the same, give or take. Some ends of day rolls confirmed it. Having workers in the tavern don´t affect at all ( or at least not in a significant manner) your income at this moment.
So, or I´m missing something very obvious that it´s on my face, or the system it´s not fully implemented yet, or there are a big, nasty bug buggering the things....