Except that diners were actively deceived, even after all that.
It’s one thing to claim obliviousness or refuse to accommodate restrictions or preferences.
It’s entirely another to say you are doing so when you are explicitly lying.
[As an aside, I think many restaurants that list vegetarian or vegan options (as opposed to ones that are exclusively such) likely have “cross-contamination” in the kitchen - spoons, pots, blanching water, hot oil, etc. My most rigid/observantly vegetarian family/friends will only eat at vegetarian places. Not that that’s the right outcome, but to them that’s the only guaranteed one based on other people’s flexible notions of what they need to/should do with dietary restrictions/preferences.]
