Tech & Tools

New Smartphone App Shows Food-Sensitive Clients the Best Places to Dine

Millions of people with food allergies and intolerances struggle to find restaurants that will accommodate their dietary requirements. Now, there’s an app for that. AllergyEats, an online source for finding allergy-friendly restaurants, has just launched a free app for the iPhone and Android smartphones.

“The new AllergyEats app builds off the outstanding success of the core AllergyEats website, which has a tremendous—and rapidly expanding—number of users finding and rating restaurants based on their level of food allergy friendliness. Our new mobile app offers all of the same benefits as the original AllergyEats website with the added convenience of portability,” says AllergyEats founder Paul Antico.

“The AllergyEats app offers peer-based allergy-friendliness ratings as well as restaurants’ websites, menus, directions, and more, conveniently accessible from users’ iPhones and Android smartphones. Users can search by city or zip code—or from wherever they find themselves—making it even easier for busy, on-the-go families to find accommodating restaurants, whether they’re researching options in advance or grabbing a last-minute meal while out and about,” Antico adds.

AllergyEats is a free, user-friendly resource that provides peer-based feedback about how well (or poorly) restaurants accommodate the needs of food allergic customers. Most restaurant review sites include information about establishments’ food, ambiance, or service, but AllergyEats is singularly focused on food allergies, with peer reviews spotlighting where people with food allergies or intolerances have more comfortably eaten and where they’ve encountered challenges.

Both the AllergyEats app and website provide information on more than 600,000 restaurants nationwide, which users can rate. The peer ratings and feedback allow food allergic and gluten-intolerant diners to quickly and easily find restaurants that will more likely cater to their special dietary requirements and avoid the ones that won’t.

Users can access information for many restaurants such as menus (including gluten-free menus), allergen lists, nutrition information, certifications, Web links, and directions.

Clients can download the app for free from the iTunes app store and the Android market.

For more information, visit www.allergyeats.com.