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For better or worse, Germany has a certification fetish. It ensures a baseline of trustworthiness that you _want_ to have in the food industry, but it kills wonderful things like Berlin’s “Thai park” where kiosks propped up and started selling good food.

Regulation is preferable. The Thai park was shut down because it trashed the place and competed with regulated, tax-paying food markets.

The only issue is how slow and inefficient German bureaucracy is. It wouldn’t be a problem to request compliance if it didn’t take months and waste everyone’s time as they’re trying to get off the ground.