I'm not a vegetarian, but am probably in that 16% that doesn't eat meat all that often. I'll say that if those three options were presented as salmon, chicken, and tofu (no other information), I'd have picked the salmon. If the full descriptions above were presented, I'd definitely have gone for the "tofu"/paneer. So, I really don't think this is as much of a catering miss as Always Flyin does. I'm on the side of FA error... it doesn't surprise me at all that no one picked the third option given the lack of description, and I don't think you can generalize that experience to say offering a non-pasta veg dish is a bad decision.