I’m glad you figured this out about this place. This is why it’s so important to speak up and ask about cross contamination! Many of these “veg-friendly” restaurants aren’t really vegan-friendly even in what they do offer. People seem to be getting ever-more confused about what vegan even means (like the server attempting to distinguish “hard-core vegan”) as more people who aren’t truly, fully vegan order food without caring about cooking contamination and minor ingredients. Case in point- all the reviewers labeled vegan on here who keep saying how they wish they could give carnist restaurants 5 stars as well, if only Happy Cow would let them. 🤦🏼‍♀️