“Sorry, America should not be DBrow-beaten.”
So I should have no expectation that a food server has competence in knowing what they are serving?
You want allergy friendly, let the market handle it. You are a camel nosing into a tent.
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.
No - You should have no expectation that the restaurant is required to supply quasi-medical advice under penalty of law, with the opposing reward of penalty of lawsuit if they are wrong.
If the server has no idea what is in a dish, then perhaps the server is incompetent (or new), and needs to ask the question of someone who does know.
The consumer is responsible for what they consume - this merely shifts the burden of protection to the restaurant, and WILL (absolutely) be the basis for high-dollar lawsuits. If you cannot foresee this future, I would posit that you have failed to see the history of lawsuits in the US past (along with the warning that "content may be hot" on a cup of hot coffee, to cover the restaurant's legal behind).
No disrespect intended, but this law would merely set the restaurants up for million dollar malpractice lawsuits.