Posted on 03/22/2014 8:39:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A new Maryland bill would let counties require each restaurant to have a staff member trained on food allergens, ready to advise customers. Is the measure needed?
County governments may soon have authority to make restaurants accommodate customers with food allergies.
A new bill would let counties require each restaurant to have a staff member trained on food allergens, ready to advise customers, reports WJLA TV. The bill would also require restaurants statewide to encourage customers to notify servers about their food allergies.
The Senate passed the measure 33-14 Monday evening. A similar bill is pending in a House committee.
Restaurants could post an advisory on the menu, asking customers with allergies to notify their servers. Or the server could ask before taking customers' orders, says CBS DC.
The Senate version, introduced by Sen. Jamie Raskin of Montgomery County, would not apply to service stations or vendors at carnivals and fairs.
i love the way you think. =:o)
maybe they could double as fedgov’s political officer in the workplace.
/nosarc
and so will this person be working every single minute each restaurant is open? will the eateries not allowed to sell food unless they are there?
what if they are not scheduled? what if they get sick? or die? or are taken down by their own food allergy?
these people are nazis, they are fascists who want to control private businesses by regulating them to death.
get it through your head that NONE of what they DO is truly for YOUR good, it is for THEIR goals. they pass it off as they are doing you a favor or making you safer, but that ain’t it.
people with medical conditions have to be the ones that care more about their lives than anyone else. you don’t leave it up to an unknown person in a restaurant. not even, ultimately, a doctor.
food servers aren’t chefs. and generally they do know a bit about it, and if they don’t they will ask the chef on their own, or by request.
LOL! Nothing like the feel of beer coming out my nose!
I was hoping the Maryland bill would require restaurants to provide a sexy young babe staff worker to feed customers with stubborn eating disorders. Those customers who were lactate intolerant and unable to eat solid foods would be provided a nurse for breast feeding. That’s what I call the ultimate Nanny State eating.
If this leads to lawsuits, I suspect restaurants will end up having full recipes printed in a booklet that can be shown on request.
At Five Guys they have a box of free peanuts in the shell. When I am done I grab a few to eat on the way to my car. One of these Five Guys has a sign up saying “Don’t take peanuts outside” because they are afraid of some child picking up an uneaten one and having an allergic reaction
And you really think a government rule is going to insure competence……hahahahahahahahaha…….based on what you silly little bureaucrat?
Simple. If a customer asks about any allergen, the answer is “yes, everything on the menu is cooked in or exposed to peanut oil and may cause a reaction”, “yes, everything on the menu contains or is exposed to wheat and may cause a reaction”, and “yes, everything on the menu has been exposed to shellfish and may cause a reaction”. I would not want the risk of a customer with allergies who wants to use this law. Thinking back to the moron who sued McD’s because their fries had been exposed to beef (no kidding - everything in the restaurant is coated with a layer of oil from cooking fries and a layer of oil from the burgers).
I have an allergy that I've never heard of anyone else ever having. It's to the chemical used to neutralize caffein in beverages. I drink de-caf anything and it feels like the top of my head is going to explode. As a result, the only thing I drink while dininbg out is water. I drink coffee at home.
"De-caf" itself is usually a mis nomer, it should say, caffein-neutralized.
There’s a nice restaurant a few miles up the road from us. We were eating there one day and the owner heard us talking about our niece who has multiple food allergies. He told us, “The next time you come, call us ahead of time and we’ll make a special dish for her with none of the allergens.” We said, “How will we know what’s on the menu that night?” He said, “Doesn’t matter. Tell us what she wants to eat and we’ll make it for her.”
That’s the way to run a restaurant.
I spent a lot of time in organic chem labs and a few solvents, notiblably carbon tet, would ruin me for a day - felt like the top of head was being crushed while something was trying to escape.
Soon, it will be common knowledge that any eating establishment is a certified allergy clinic. Can't get better access than that.....
That is exactly what I would do. Unfortunately, the nanny staters would probably make it an ADA requirement that I have to serve them something they can eat.
~MAKE everyone get a card with a chip putting all their maladies and allergies on it.~
Or a tattoo on a forehead.
Certain flavor enhancers (disodium insonate and disodium guaynlate) make my chest feel like it has just exploded.
Flavor enhancers used to be MSG but now they have many different names. They all affect my heart to some degree but the ones I mentioned are by far the worst.
Flavor enhancers can be and ARE in everything you eat. I am extremely careful about where I eat.
Lawyers will be able to open a new field of exploitation: wedding caterers for gay couples whose guest list includes dozens of persons with a wide variety of food allergies. AND — the food and cake must not taste like cardboard, either; because that would be egregious, homophobic discrimination!
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