I respect that a lot, it's personally how I try to enjoy food separate from work. There's just part of me that wants complete parity in what I'm serving. I used to work at a restaurant that served DISGUSTING frozen black bean burgers (nothing wrong with bean burgers, this one just sucked ass) and I genuinely hated sending it out to any vegans who ordered a burger. I just want everybody to get good food, so I put a lot of pressure on myself trying to make sure everything tastes how I want it to now. But knowing that perspective definitely makes me more comfortable with not having perfect parity between the two menus.

I think I wanna give some soy nuggets a try. I've been trying to move away from meat more, but allergies make it really difficult and scary. Especially with a meat like chicken, there's not really much culinary reason not to replace it. Plus I'm even allergic to chicken on random occasions so finding a replacement for that would be good.

I looked into the soy sauce thing, and I think I see where my friend got it. We live in the midwest, where soy sauce selection is scarce. Kikkomen is pretty much the best choice around here, which while it is vegan, it's also just not a very good soy sauce. The other options, I assume weren't vegan, because apparently certain manufacturers just find a way to make it non-vegan, which sucks ass. Speaking of that, I need to check if the soy sauce at work is vegan, I've been working under the assumption that it isn't. I'd rather be overcautious than accidentally serve a vegan something non-vegan yk?