azi:
That wasn’t my point, & I mean no disrespect to your community. I have a problem with those who say they need to “dumb down” the Hechshser so that it should be “kosher”, claiming people will eat by areas that are not Kosher if it is not “dumbed down”. So what if fewer places have Hechsharim? Some people won’t be able to eat at (“name your place here”)? Perhaps some money will be saved?
The OU can always give its hechsher if it feels its needed (and you hold of the OU’s hechsher on resturaunts).
You can eat where you want (and will), but that Rav will know he does not support something that he hold is incorrect; that is a Maillah in of itself.
Besides, if the store does not do as the Hechsher demands, it can always go non-kosher.