Customer Allergy Log.
An app idea for restaurants.
A phone number lookup that shows a regular customer's allergies and preferences before staff take the order.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Restaurant owner or manager at a sit down restaurant with regulars
- The problem
- Servers say guests expect the restaurant to already know their allergies, and regulars with long allergy lists are hard to serve safely. One wrong dish is a health risk and a legal risk.
- The gap
- Existing allergen platforms manage the menu side, mapping ingredients and recipes. None of the results is a lightweight guest side record keyed to a phone number that a small restaurant can check in seconds when a regular calls.
- Already out there
- CertiStar certistar.com
Checks recipes and ingredients against allergies and builds guest profiles. It is a full platform aimed at larger operations, not a quick lookup for a small restaurant.
- AllergyMenu allergymenu.app
Customer facing allergen display plus back of house allergen data management. It covers dishes, not the individual regular's history.
- AllergenOnline allergenonline.org
A scientific allergen protein database. It is a reference tool, not an operational guest record.
- CertiStar certistar.com
- People asking for it
- Anyone else have a regular with insane allergy requests reddit.com
Server describes a regular whose allergy list makes it almost impossible for her to eat anything on the menu.
- Thoughts on asking about allergies or dietary concerns reddit.com
Discussion of whether the guest or the restaurant is responsible for flagging allergies, with owners taking the burden on themselves.
- Reddit restaurant workers are begging you to stop lying about this serious issue mashed.com
Workers describe guests submitting long allergy lists and the kitchen prepping around them.
- Anyone else have a regular with insane allergy requests reddit.com
- The big assumption
- Staff will actually look up a customer before taking an order during a busy service.
- Test it this week
- Run a paper allergy card file for ten regulars at one restaurant for two weeks and count how often staff check it before taking an order.
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