Archive for the ‘News Reviews’ Category

[Thank you to Adrienne Walkowiak as the primary author of this post]
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Are the friendly skies getting more food-allergy friendly?  It depends where you’re traveling.  Canada’s two major airlines, WestJet and Air Canada Airlines, recently unveiled exciting, progressive new food allergy policies, which many in our community hope will become precedent among US airlines, as [...]

Every now and then I read an article so perfect for our community that I get very excited to share it.
Such was the case Wednesday when I saw a Fort Wayne News Sentinel’s editorial entitled “Restaurants commended, urged to pay attention to gluten intolerance.”
The writer starts, “It is time for someone to commend a select group of local and [...]

I read a fascinating article from the Star newspaper in Australia (no relation to the Star weekly up here in the States).  It pits a mother trying to bring baby food into a restaurant against a restaurateur who says she can’t allow it due to potential food allergy issues with her customers.
Given that AllergyEats is [...]

It’s always a double-edged sword when I read an online article about food allergies.
First, the article itself can either be accurate and informative or it can be poorly-researched and a huge community disservice (we’re still facing the fallout of the New York Times’ horrendous and inaccurate article on research published in the Journal of the [...]

Pizzamarketplace.com wrote an interesting article about future trends in the gluten-free market according to Datamonitor.  While the focus was not on restaurants (it was about the growth in gluten-free product offerings in general), the commentary seems equally applicable to dining out.
While you can read the entire story via this link, I am including a few [...]

Marketing Daily recently published an article (linked here) referencing a dining survey conducted by Market Force Information. Though food allergies were not the focus, I couldn’t help but get excited about their data related to the influence of online restaurant reviews.
“About half [of restaurant patrons] now indicate that they sometimes read online reviews and blog and tweet [...]

As a proud supporter of the Gluten Intolerance Group’s Chef-to-Plate campaign during the Celiac awareness month of May, AllergyEats is very happy to pass on the following success story from GIG’s most recent eNewsletter.
 
Chef to Plate Campaign reached 3.9 million people!Â
May 2010 was declared to be Celiac Awareness month all over the country and into Canada.  [...]

What a nice way to start last week’s Food Allergy Awareness Week!
Generally, I use the AllergyEats Blog solely to talk about food allergy and intolerance issues related to restaurants. However, the issue I bring up today is relevant in that it calls into question the prevalence of food allergies, which can have a direct [...]

Nation’s Restaurant News magazine had a very quick survey in one of their daily emails last week that I thought was interesting and worth sharing here.
The question they asked restaurants was “How do you accommodate food-allergic guests?”
Here are the 4 answers:
71% We expect diners to let us know when they have food allergies
13% Servers ask individual [...]

(This AllergyEats Blog entry has been guest written by Ken Allen, a food allergic who also provides public relations services to AllergyEats.)
Questions continue to swirl around McDonald’s French fries and whether they are safe for people with gluten intolerance. Amy Ratner, associate editor of Gluten-Free Living (www.glutenfreeliving.com) made a valiant stab at the issue [...]