My guess is they didn’t do it on purpose. They just don’t know or care. Which is kind of worse in my book.
I did time in fastfood, the flag went up goofy a lot (admittedly our had 3 clips, because I think they used to also hang the state flag, that added many opportunities to do it wrong), and was almost never folded properly, and would get left out overnight because the closers forgot about. Minimum wage employees are not generally known for their conscientious effort.