Core feature
Kitchen-Verified Allergen Menus for Restaurants
AllerIQ turns your existing menu into a filterable allergen menu verified by the kitchen. Guests tap what they can't eat and every dish reads Safe, Contains, May contain, or Ask the kitchen, off your real ingredients. Less confusion for guests, and one answer for your staff.
What is a kitchen-verified allergen menu?
A kitchen-verified allergen menu is a digital or printed menu that clearly communicates which dishes contain, or may contain, common food allergens. Unlike a standard menu that simply lists ingredients, a kitchen-verified allergen menu is structured specifically to help guests with food allergies make safer, more informed choices.
For restaurants, a kitchen-verified allergen menu also serves as a training resource. Rather than relying on staff to memorize ingredient lists across dozens of dishes, a kitchen-verified allergen menu creates one consistent, verified source of truth for the whole team.
AllerIQ creates allergen menus verified by the kitchen that guests can filter from their phone via QR code — covering all nine of the FDA's major food allergens.
Why restaurants need kitchen-verified allergen menus
Food allergy prevalence is significant and growing. An estimated 33 million Americans have food allergies, and many more follow allergen-restricted diets for medical or dietary reasons. When a guest with a food allergy visits your restaurant, they need to trust that your menu communicates allergen information accurately.
Without a structured kitchen-verified allergen menu, restaurants face several problems:
- Staff give inconsistent answers about allergen content across shifts
- Guests have to rely on verbal assurances that may be incorrect or incomplete
- Menu updates can introduce new allergen risks without staff awareness
- "May contain" cross-contact risks are often not communicated at all
- Peak-hour allergy questions slow service and create stress for kitchen teams
AllerIQ's restaurant allergy menu software addresses all of these points with a single, continuously updated digital menu.
How AllerIQ creates kitchen-verified allergen menus
AllerIQ takes your existing menu, from a photo, a PDF, or pasted text, and builds a fully filterable digital allergen menu from it. Here's how it works:
1. Import your menu
Snap a photo, upload a PDF, or paste your menu text. AllerIQ reads your dishes and ingredient lists and maps allergens at the ingredient level.
2. Auto-map allergens
Every dish is cross-referenced against the FDA Top 9 allergens. Wheat, dairy, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, fish, shellfish, and sesame are flagged automatically. "May contain" disclosures are added for shared-kitchen ingredients.
3. Review and publish
Your team reviews the allergen mapping once, a quick process that typically takes 10 to 20 minutes. Once approved, your allergen menu verified by the kitchen is live.
4. Share via QR code
Print your unique QR code and place it on tables, at the host stand, or on your printed menu. Guests scan it, select their allergens, and see how every dish reads for them.
FDA Top 9 allergen coverage
The FDA identifies nine major food allergens that account for the vast majority of food allergy reactions. AllerIQ is built around these nine allergens as a baseline: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans, and sesame.
This means every kitchen-verified allergen menu built with AllerIQ is automatically structured to support FDA Top 9 allergen disclosure — without any manual setup required from your team.
Learn more about FDA Top 9 allergen menusBenefits for guests with food allergies
Guests with food allergies often experience anxiety at restaurants. When allergen information is unclear, incomplete, or only available by asking staff, it creates uncertainty and reduces the dining experience for a significant portion of your guests.
An AllerIQ kitchen-verified allergen menu helps guests:
- Filter your entire menu by their specific allergies in seconds
- See clear "contains" and "may contain" labels on every dish
- Make more informed meal choices without relying on staff memory
- Feel more comfortable dining at your venue
- Share the filtered menu view with their dining companions
The QR code allergy menu is accessible on any smartphone with no app download required.
Important: AllerIQ helps restaurants organize and communicate allergen information, but it does not replace proper food safety practices, ingredient verification, staff training, or cross-contact prevention procedures. Restaurants remain responsible for their own food safety standards.
Related resources
Restaurant Allergy Menu Software
Full-featured allergen management for restaurants.
QR Code Allergy Menu
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FDA Top 9 Allergen Menu
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Allergen Menu Template
Get started with a ready-to-use allergen template.
What Is a Kitchen-Verified Allergen Menu?
In-depth guide for restaurant teams.
How to Create a Kitchen-Verified Allergen Menu
Step-by-step walkthrough.
Frequently asked questions
What makes an allergen menu worth trusting?
It says which dishes contain, or may contain, common food allergens, based on ingredients the kitchen has verified, not assumptions, and it discloses cross-contact risk in shared kitchens. When an ingredient has not been verified, it says Ask the kitchen instead of guessing.
Which allergens does AllerIQ cover?
AllerIQ covers all nine of the FDA's major food allergens: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans, and sesame. These cover the vast majority of food allergy reactions in the United States.
I have more than one location. How does that work?
Each location gets its own account and its own menu, $149 a month each, or $119 each for five or more. Every kitchen answers the six cross-contact questions for itself, because a shared fryer in one kitchen says nothing about another.
How do guests access the kitchen-verified allergen menu?
Guests access AllerIQ menus through a QR code you display at your restaurant. No app download needed — the menu opens instantly in any mobile browser.
Does AllerIQ replace staff training on food allergies?
No. AllerIQ helps restaurants organize and communicate allergen information clearly, but it does not replace proper food safety training, ingredient verification, or cross-contact prevention procedures. Restaurants remain responsible for their food safety standards.
How long does it take to set up a kitchen-verified allergen menu?
Most restaurants complete their first kitchen-verified allergen menu in under 30 minutes. Upload your existing menu file, review the auto-mapped allergen data, and your digital menu is ready to share.
Build your menu. Let your kitchen verify it.
Import your existing menu, auto-map allergens, and give guests a clearer way to filter your dishes. Build free with no credit card, then $149 a month per location when you publish.