Your menu changes every week. Your allergen record should keep up.
Tasting menus, seasonal swaps, daily features. Every change is a fresh opportunity for a mislabeled ingredient to become a liability event. MenuRegistry creates a per-version disclosure record in seconds, so the audit-grade trail keeps pace with the kitchen.
Higher per-plate value, lower margin for error.
Menus that move
Seasonal menus, tasting flights, daily specials, chef's picks. Every printing or POS update is a separate disclosure surface that needs its own record. A single yearly audit doesn't cover what changed in March.
Complex preparations, hidden allergens
Brown butter sauces, miso glazes, finishing oils, stock reductions. Common allergens hide inside ingredients an inspector wouldn't think to question and a server wouldn't know to mention.
One incident, outsized cost
Average allergen-mislabeling settlement runs $85K. For a Michelin-starred or destination restaurant, the press cycle and reputation cost dwarf the cash damages. Insurance covers some of it. None of it covers the brand.
Small ops team, no compliance hire
Most fine dining operators run lean. There's no Director of Compliance writing audit memos. The chef-owner or GM is the entire compliance function, juggling it alongside service, hiring, and inventory.
Discerning guests expect more
The fine-dining guest is the most likely to ask, in detail, about ingredients. Allergen-sensitive guests at this price point compare you to peers who already provide this level of disclosure. The expectation isn't optional.
Sommelier surprises
Wine pairings can carry allergens (egg whites, milk, sulfites, fining agents). Most allergen disclosure focuses on food and forgets the beverage program entirely. We don't audit wine yet, but we flag it.
Three minutes per menu, even on the day a printer drops the new sheets.
Upload the new menu.
PDF from your designer, photo from the printer proof, paste from the POS. Whatever your current workflow produces is fine.
Audit runs in seconds.
Every dish checked against the 9 FDA major allergens. Hidden-ingredient inferences flagged. Ambiguous calls marked LOW or MEDIUM confidence so you know what to verify with the kitchen.
Compliance-ready PDF, version-stamped.
Compliance-ready PDF with a SHA-256 hash of the menu and an ISO timestamp printed in the footer. Re-running the same menu produces the same hash, so you have a verifiable per-version record.
$79 per location, per month. 3 audits included.
For a single fine-dining venue, that's a versioned audit for every seasonal menu rollover, with room for revisions. Need more in a given month (a holiday tasting plus a new dinner card)? Audit packs stack on top, $14.75 per audit.
One caveat. The audit reads what your menu actually says. If your description reads “Caesar salad,” the engine has less to work with than “romaine, anchovy, parmesan, croutons, white anchovy Caesar dressing.” Confidence drops are flagged so you know what to verify with the kitchen, but the most accurate audit comes from the most descriptive menu copy. Most fine dining menus already lean this way for the diner’s benefit; if yours is terse, an audit also works as a forcing function for clarifying what’s actually on the plate.
Informational allergen audit. Not legal advice. See our disclaimer for the full statement.