The behavior of the owner of the ground pot chicken store is illegal, mainly from the following aspects to analyze.

The first point is that the behavior of the owner of the ground pot chicken store violated the reporter's right to personal freedom. The reporter came to visit the store because someone said that the safety of this store was not up to standard, so in order to confirm whether things were true. In the face of such a situation, the owner of the ground pot chicken store should have welcomed the reporter to the interview with great generosity, as long as the hygiene of their store is up to standard, the reporter wrote an article and reported it out, it will attract more tourists, which will surely bring the store a huge income. But this boss actually locked the reporter in the store privately, which restricts the reporter's personal freedom. The reporter could have called the police, who could have disciplined the store owner accordingly, depending on the specific circumstances.

The second point is that the behavior of the owner of Ground Pot Chicken is a disguised indication that the health and safety of the store is not up to standard, and that he may subsequently face a series of fines and penalties. Normal circumstances, if the store hygiene qualified, ground pot chicken store owner should not make such behavior. He locked the reporter inside the store probably because he was worried that the writer had captured some inappropriate images and that reporting them out might affect the business of the store, and that's why he locked the reporter inside the store. Therefore, I think the relevant organizations for food safety and hygiene inspections should have to conduct random checks on the hygiene of the store to see if there are any unreasonable phenomena, such as dirty, disorganized and poor kitchen environment, and the ingredients in the store are not fresh, and so on. Catering restaurant health and safety is very important, after all, they make things to eat into the mouth, if the health is not up to standard, it will pose a serious threat to the health of consumers.

The third point is that journalists need to take the right approach when it comes to finding out the truth about certain things. In some ways, a journalist also belongs to a high-risk profession because he needs to be exposed to many dangerous things. A journalist will try to explore the truth of the matter based on the feedback from the public and in some matters is also required to speak up for the public. Therefore, journalists should use appropriate methods when reporting on relevant events and must ensure their personal safety.