This is ridiculous. It is up to the person with allergies to ask if the foods contain allergens.
I have several food allergies. I don’t expect restaurants to be able to guess at them. I ask what is in the food before I order it. Any person with allergies does the same.
This is just another step towards a paternalistic world where no one is responsible for their own lives. Yes, allergies are a pain. No, the rest of the world has no obligation to watch out for your allergies.
This is ridiculous. It is up to the person with allergies to ask if the foods contain allergens.
I have several food allergies. I don’t expect restaurants to be able to guess at them. I ask what is in the food before I order it. Any person with allergies does the same.
This is just another step towards a paternalistic world where no one is responsible for their own lives. Yes, allergies are a pain. No, the rest of the world has no obligation to watch out for your allergies.
I'm somewhere in-between on this. My daughter (now 3) had severe allergies to milk and soy. If we had walked into McDonald's and asked if the french fries contained dairy, everyone behind the counter would have told us "no"... but they use whey protein as a binder to stick the beef flavoring to the fries. If I trusted the employees, who clearly didn't know anything about the ingredients, she would have eaten the fries.
As a concerned parent, I checked the nutrition/ingredients list on the website of every place we took her to eat before she outgrew the allergies, or we took food with us that she could eat. As far as bringing food in, we only had trouble at one place -- but after we were able to show that the servers had no idea there was soy in the BBQ sauce (that they said contained no dairy or soy), they never bothered us again for bringing in food for her.
So, I don't think every employee in the place needs to know what's in every product, but there should be at least one person that you can ask and be able to trust the answer they give.