2. Compensation can be free or economic, as long as it is not too outrageous. So your boyfriend's 500 yuan is not expensive, it should be about three times as much as your meal compensation.
3. Choosing compensation has little to do with personality. There is a celebrity of Wang Hai's counterfeiting, who specializes in buying fakes. On the one hand, he makes a living with compensation, on the other hand, he tells everyone which are fakes, and at the same time warns manufacturers to operate with conscience.
Your boyfriend is meticulous and principled at most, and does not rule out a sense of justice. It doesn't even rule out that he chose to punish the restaurant because of his mistakes in the restaurant, which is not necessarily a sign of love.
Don't guess this topic. Everyone looks at the problem from a different angle. You can discuss this problem head-on with him.