> As a person whose mother has worked at restaurants for over 40 years, and whose best friends owned a restaurant for close to 20, I can tell you that those "serious issues" and "all restaurants" are FUD.

"Among restaurant inspections with a total score of >80, at lease one critical violation was cited in 44% of those inspections"

Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323064/

Now imagine which percent of restaurants would fail if we also included failures to comply in other subjects?

> It will be the same: they will get it wrong the first time, get issued a warning, fix it, and carry on.

No, they will most likely never be inspected because there are far too many businesses to control and thus will never implement or fix their practices.

> And yeah, small business (or any business for that matter) really has no business collecting my private data, and selling it to third-parties.

They have just as many rights to do it as large companies