[Avodah] Mar'is Ayin and Personal Standards

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

The owner of the restaurant at which I work puts large outgoing orders
in used boxes. Most of those boxes come from the liquor store nearby.

However, the owner will not permit us to use boxes from unkosher
products or even kosher dairy products. [This is a kosher fleishig
Chinese Restaurant] It seems he has a very strong sense of mar'is ayin
and is afraid that boxes from unkosher products or from dairy products
will hurt his restaurant's kashrus reputation.


Are his mar'is ayin standards over the top? Is there any halachic reason
for him to think that way?

KT
RRW
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