Worst experience I had was in a diner... Took a pic of a middle aged waitress with a plate of burgers behind the counter. She didn't say anything but she called her manager. Manager raised quite a fuss - she was Korean and didn't speak English very well... Ended up, I gave her the roll of film to calm her down. It was quite a scene.
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Korean used to dislike Americans taking photos of them as if they were strange in some way. Like as not it was a family business and the manager was a relative, even her husband. Worse, sometimes they can cop an attitude and when they get would up, there is no reasoning with them.
A couple or three years ago we were eating in a supermarket that had several restaurants. We were served bad (as in smelling and tasting bad) food. My wife called it to the attention of the owner and instead of checking it, or apologizing or offering to make it right, he began argueing. Now I had smelled the food before my wife showed it to him, it was bad.
Things deteriorated to the point I thought I was going to have to physically protect her. He was wound up but I guess he saw something in my look, and thankfully backed away. I didn't want to have it sink to that level, but wasn't going to let him touch my wife either.
Interesting thing was, when I called the county health service they weren't all that interested until I mentioned he had no tax authorization displayed. They were there the next morning. He has had a couple more unsuccessful businesses since then. You can only cut so many corners.
I have taken photos there since, being careful to return with prints for the staff. They have always been thankful. It was just him I guess.
I don't know what all that means, but most who own businesses won't react that way. They aren't shy letting you know they don't approve of something, but seldom go to that extreme like you mention.
