Agreed, this is almost certainly meaningless 'virtue signaling' in practice... My main question is who is the intended audience? The 1.8% of the planet that is vegetarian?

edit: thanks for the downvote, was my comment and question offensive?

> The 1.8% of the planet that is vegetarian

I was curious about this. According to wikipedia (take with salt), 21% of the world population is vegetarian either by choice or necessity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country

There are some surprising results in the list, but the tl;dr is: India.

Even in India though, I think the percent of pure vegetarians is 50-60% (not all Hindus completely abstain from meat like fish/chicken, and Muslims don’t).

>who is the intended audience? The 1.8% of the planet that is vegetarian?

According to TFA they are doing it to reduce their environment footprint.

>thanks for the downvote, was my comment and question offensive?

"Virtue signaling" gets an automatic downvote from me.

That’s not always possible. Chain restaurants and such can’t do that because they use the sale records to decide what supplies to order for tomorrow, what items to remove from the menu, etc.

It's pretty easy to avoid chain restaurants..

Sure, but I still don’t like the idea of a customer badgering a waiter to do something that could get them fired, especially because their wages are tip based.

Nothing is stopping you from talking to the manager..