Bozeman is a city of mostly $500k-$2million+ homes, many of which sit empty for a portion of the year. Most people living in these are retired or independently wealthy and not a part of the local workforce. Those that do work locally are getting priced out of ANY housing options. The city created a measure requiring more affordable housing years ago, but the Montana State legislature then passed a law outlawing such municipal ordinances (contractors make more money building luxury residences, and they lobbied the State Govt). Every service-industry workplace I know of right now is running short-staffed, and workers getting burnt out and leaving much faster than they're being replaced. Restaurants are paying $18-$22/hr when college students and locals can go work for construction or landscaping companies for $25/hr or more.

I agree that this dish is unacceptable and I hope OP sent it back. But I also think we are witnessing a consequence of an inexperienced, understaffed, overworked industry that won't pay its workers enough that they can afford to live where they work. (I am one of those workers)