Allergy-aware menu for restaurants
An allergy-aware menu shows the allergens of every dish next to the dish itself, at the moment the guest is choosing, and in a language they actually read. aimaitred carries allergen data on every item, shows it in the guest's own language, and prints a matrix for inspections. Allergen names are never machine-translated: they use hand-checked vocabulary per language, because a mistranslated allergen is a safety bug rather than a typo. Where a dish has no allergen data recorded, the assistant says so and refuses to call it safe.
How it works
- Record the allergens against each dish once, in the admin screen. Recipes and stock can carry the data upward so a dish inherits it rather than being typed twice.
- The guest sees them on the item, before ordering, in the language their phone is set to, with the allergen names themselves taken from checked vocabulary rather than a translation engine.
- A guest can filter the menu by what they must avoid, so the list they browse is already narrowed rather than needing to be read line by line.
- Print the allergen matrix for the folder an inspector asks for, and keep ingredient data for anything packed on the premises.
What you get
- Allergen names are never AI-translated. Each language uses hand-checked vocabulary, because a mistranslated allergen is a safety bug.
- The assistant will not call a dish safe where the allergen data is missing. It says the data is missing and points the guest at a member of staff.
- Built against the UK Food Information Regulations 2014 and EU regulation 1169/2011, with Natasha's Law ingredient data for anything packed on the premises.
- A printable allergen matrix, so the answer to an inspection is a document you already have rather than an afternoon of work.
- Chef's Corner answers kitchen questions from your own recipe and HACCP documents, so what the team is told matches what you actually wrote down.
At a glance
| Allergen translation | Hand-checked per language, never AI |
|---|---|
| Missing data | Declared, never guessed |
| Guest filter | Yes, by what to avoid |
| Inspection record | Printable matrix |
| Written against | FIR 2014, EU 1169/2011, Natasha's Law |
Where this is the wrong answer
Software cannot make a kitchen safe. It shows what you recorded, and nothing more: if the data is wrong, the menu is confidently wrong in 25 languages. Cross-contamination in a small kitchen is a matter of process and training, not of a screen. Treat this as the place the answer is written down and kept current, and keep the conversation between a guest with an allergy and a human being.
Questions people actually ask
- Are the allergens translated automatically into the guest's language?
- The dish description is. The allergen names are not. They come from hand-checked vocabulary held for each language, on purpose, because a machine translation that turns one nut into another is a safety bug and not a wording problem.
- What happens if a dish has no allergen data recorded yet?
- The gap is shown as a gap. The assistant will not describe the dish as free of anything, and it tells the guest to ask a member of staff. Silence is treated as unknown rather than as an all clear.
- Can I produce the allergen sheet an inspector asks for?
- Yes. The allergen matrix prints as a grid of dishes against allergens from the same data the guest menu reads, so the sheet in the folder and the screen at the table cannot drift apart.
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See it with your own menu
Upload the menu you already have and look at the result before deciding anything. A photo or a PDF is enough.