Health inspections can get crazy at restaurants too. My partner worked in the industry and is full of stories about this. Cupcakes with butter in the frosting being required to be kept in the refrigerator until sold. It being illegal to prep food in a food cart, then transfer it to a food truck for catering, despite such transfers being legal when the food is cooked in a restaurant. It being impossible to certify storage units to keep extra ingredients. Requirements that food carts have clean water tanks attached even when they are directly hooked up to clean city water. Requirements to track how long food has been hot held despite this making no real difference for food safety.
In most cases, workers deal with this by lying to or withholding information from inspectors.
Health inspections can get crazy at restaurants too. My partner worked in the industry and is full of stories about this. Cupcakes with butter in the frosting being required to be kept in the refrigerator until sold. It being illegal to prep food in a food cart, then transfer it to a food truck for catering, despite such transfers being legal when the food is cooked in a restaurant. It being impossible to certify storage units to keep extra ingredients. Requirements that food carts have clean water tanks attached even when they are directly hooked up to clean city water. Requirements to track how long food has been hot held despite this making no real difference for food safety.
In most cases, workers deal with this by lying to or withholding information from inspectors.