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AllerDine: Restaurant Allergy Guide

By on February 24, 2013 in Ideas

If you suffer from food allergies, dining out can be a challenge. A new webite called AllerDine hopes to make the process a little easier. AllerDine is a restaurant guide that rates the “allergy friendliness” of each restaurant in their guide.

Criteria include:

  • Formal allergy policy
  • What allergens are on their menu
  • A list of ingredients
  • Willingness to prepare a custom meal
  • Kitchen layout

They are also asked in their suppliers also process gluten, peanuts, nuts and dairy.

The founder of AllerDine, Steve Rose, started working on the site a few years ago when he learned that his young children had food allergies and was about to take his family on a vacation to Orlando, Florida. He put together his own spreadsheet of restaurants that either met or didn’t meet his family’s eating needs. After the trip he realized that he wasn’t the only one who would benefit from such a list and AllerDine was born.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    It’s about time for a website like this to pop up. This is the type of problem I normally would not consider. I do not have food allergies, so walking into a restaurant and ordering something requires little effort on my part. However, those people that do have special needs are not that lucky. I hope this website continues to grow some more. I can only imagine all of the people that would find this handy. Heck, they may even learn something about the restaurants in their own town.

  • Karla Idems

    This is a fabulous idea!

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