That’s fine, except when you’re ordering chicken and broccoli, you expect to get chicken and broccoli. NOWHERE on their menu do they have venison.
And the whole “it’s for personal use” thing? I have my doubts. Especially since the seagull rumor was confirmed by the police. I think they believe if they mask the meat with enough veggies and soy sauce, then the taste of the meat will be hidden as well and they can cut costs by serving up whatever carcass happens to bounce off the side of the road.
When you’re running a restaurant, it probably isn’t a good idea to take a dead animal off of the street and cut it up in your kitchen. Even if we were to believe them that it was for personal use, there’s no way to determine that. I wouldn’t visit ANY restaurant again if I saw a deer strung up in the back, particularly when deer wasn’t on the menu.
Well, of course they’d be violating the law and license requirements and health codes and whatnot if they were serving roadkill venison as beef or seagull as chicken. But it’s not clear that that’s what they were doing or planning to do, as I see it.
The article says they were “closed for serving seagull...” Was it actually proved by the police or health inspectors that they were serving seagull, or did the police close them on the basis of the rumors?
If it was proven, where’s the newspaper reports about it from that time? How much were they fined? Was it on the menu as seagull?
It’s not against the law to prepare your own food in your own restaurant’s kitchen, is it?