Entrepreneurial work, huh...? [He muses this while looking over the menu, because even if he usually eats the same few things (and charges), something else might strike his fancy. Especially on his birthday. But rather than read the menu aloud, he keeps up on the other idea.]

I bet you're right, loads of people would buy my artistic works! And not even because we're aliens.

[Though that would certainly be part of it. And it might help, because even with that extra money from the ill-fated research efforts, he still doesn't have as much put aside as he'd like for when the hotel thing stops. Not based on the property quotes he's been gathering.]