Hello Fellow vegan, we are sadden that your experience at Little Barn was not a good one. If you allow us we’d like to make it up to you and also we’d be happy to refund you for the Reuben and provide your next meal on the house. We are a To-go facility, we offer a patio which you may eat at your discretion but again we are a Togo facility, hence the Togo packaging which by the way it’s all recycled/recyclable/eco friendly/compostable packaging. We share our patio with our human neighbors/customers and our beastie neighbors as well. It’s an open patio surrounded by trees plants shrubs nature completely open!! So you may see the squirrels that live on and off our avocado mango and peach trees that at directly in our patio. We get visits from raccoons skunks opossums birds parrots lizards garden snakes even coyotes have been spotted through our cameras so if you saw a mouse that’s just another living creature that visits our fruit trees and for that unpleasant visit we are very very sorry. Please accept our apology!! But please know that our kitchen and the entire inside of our facility is 100% creature free. We take pride in our cleanliness and sanitation as well as our delicious food. FYI Our patios are thoroughly cleaned and sanitized on a daily basis. Please Let us refund your the Reuben or at least remake it for you and try some of our best and favorite items on our menu on us. Please feel free to reach me by ph at the cafe. Or let us know if you do decide to give us another chance. Best, Seleste owner/chef @little barn.