There’s really no other counter of dealing with Nougat once she is in the office. You have to close the doors before the pillars get in, otherwise it is an instant game over.
Unless you somehow get close to 6 am when Nougat gets you around 5 am. Then you’ll somehow win despite losing. No joke, in one of my runs of “Taste Testing”, I was caught by Nougat around 5 am and it hit 6 am right after her game over happened.