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Follow on Google News | AllergyEats: Improving the Way Food Allergic & Gluten-Intolerant Diners Eat OutBiggest & Fastest Growing Source for Finding Allergy-Friendly Restaurants Celebrates Its One Year Anniversary
By: AllergyEats AllergyEats, a free website, lists well over 600,000 restaurants nationwide, which food allergic diners can rate. The site also offers information on restaurants’ “Since its February 2010 launch, AllergyEats has ramped up to more than 10,000 users each month and continues to see significant growth as visitors from all 50 states rate the allergy-friendliness of their restaurant experiences,” “Additionally, we’ve experienced a tremendous surge of interest on our social media sites, with more than 8,000 Facebook views daily, and 3,000+ food-allergic fans regularly sharing ideas, recommendations and feedback on Facebook, Twitter and the AllergyEats Blog,” Antico continued. As a successful mutual fund manager at Fidelity Investments, Antico was used to problem-solving during high pressure situations. But one night a few years ago, the father of five faced a different sort of challenge – driving around for more than two hours with his hungry, grumpy children in the backseat, searching for a restaurant that could accommodate their food allergies. “I was frustrated with the inconsistencies in restaurants – some were willing to cook meals without dairy, nuts, eggs and my kids’ other ‘trigger foods,’ and some were not – and I wondered why there wasn’t a quick, easy online restaurant guide that indicated where food-allergic individuals could more comfortably eat. So I created one,” Antico explained. This free, user-friendly website provides valuable peer-based feedback about how well (or poorly) restaurants accommodate the needs of food-allergic customers. The peer ratings and feedback allow food-allergic and gluten-intolerant diners to quickly and easily find restaurants that will cater to their special dietary requirements – and avoid those that won’t. Most restaurant review sites include information about establishments’ More than 12 million Americans have food allergies, which is one in 25 people or 4% of the population. The numbers are higher for children under the age of 3, as a staggering 6% have been diagnosed with food allergies. An additional 3 million people have been diagnosed with Celiac Disease or gluten intolerance. AllergyEats has been endorsed by highly-respected food, health and allergy organizations, including the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Gluten Intolerance Group, Massachusetts Restaurant Association and more. Antico serves on the Board of Directors for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, both nationally and for the New England Chapter, and he’s a passionate advocate for food allergy awareness and education. For more information, please visit www.AllergyEats.com. End
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