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Check a restaurant menu's allergen claims against its recipes

A menu's allergen and calorie lines are claims a customer relies on, and the recipe paperwork behind them does not always back them up. This app checks every published item against its recipe paperwork and flags the ones the paperwork cannot support.

For the menu quality deskCross-domain · Restaurants & QSR

Why it matters

Today's manual process, and the same job with the app

Menu quality and food-safety teams at a restaurant chain, preparing a disclosure release before it goes to print.

✕Today's manual process

1Open the release pack and list every item the menu actually publishes.
2Read each recipe specification for whether the allergens are actually declared, and where the calorie figure came from.
3Spot the reconciled-looking gaps where nothing has been declared at all, or one supplier hasn't sent theirs back.
4One missed gap means a menu makes a claim nobody can back up.
Every item checked against its paperwork manually

✓With the app

1The pack is read every published item is pulled onto one worksheet row.
2Each recipe is checked against the specification, for the allergen line and the calorie figure separately.
3Gaps are called out not determined when nothing was declared, flagged when a declaration is still outstanding.
4Nothing gets waved through every unclear case is sent back for another look, never approved by default.
Unclear cases go back for review

See it work

One real case, read by the app, step by step

ADX-0009: Autumn Grain Salad is published with milk and molluscs, but its recipe holds no allergen declarations at all.

Check a restaurant menu's allergen claims against its recipesReference appBuilt to be shaped to your process
  1. 1The published claim Autumn Grain Salad, published with milk and molluscs, 982 kcal.
  2. 2What the paperwork holds No supplier has declared anything for this dish, so there's nothing to compare.
  3. 3The allergen call: not determined The paperwork can't confirm or deny what's on the menu.
  4. 4The calorie figure isn't final It's indicative only, an estimate the paperwork doesn't confirm either.
  5. 5The release is held It goes back to the kitchen until someone confirms every gap.

For engineers

How it is built, and how we measured it

All fourteen steps of the build are written up, from the business case to running it in your own environment.

Kit overview →
0 of 550calls that wrongly cleared an itemmeasured in 01 Business case →
254 of 275allergen calls matching the rulebookmeasured in 06 Evals →
274 of 275calorie calls matching the rulebookmeasured in 06 Evals →
1.4¢to check one published itemmeasured in 07 Unit cost →

The build, step by step

14 steps

Make it yours

What you see is a reference app. We shape it to how you work.

Every part of it is built to change, and none of it means starting over.

Your rulesYour own allergen list, calorie method, and what counts as a complete declaration.
Your recordsYour recipe specifications and supplier declaration forms, in the format you already keep them.
Your systemsReads from your menu management or recipe system; the worksheet exports to your review queue.
Your screensThe columns, terms and layout your quality and food-safety desks already use.

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