Father creates online guide to allergy-friendly restaurants
“I wish there was a darn guide.”
On a fateful night a few years back, Cohasset resident Paul Antico drove around for two hours looking for a place to take his two boys for dinner. It was a Saturday night and there were waits everywhere — and he had the complicating factor of his two boys had food allergies.
He needed a guide to tell him a restaurant in the area that had proven itself to be allergy-friendly.
Flash forward to today. Antico, a former Fidelity financial analyst and portfolio manager, is the entrepreneur behind a new Web site, AllergyEats (allergyeats.com). It is that “darn guide” Antico was wishing for.
The Web site lists more than 600,000 restaurants in the United States and depends on peer-to-peer ratings of how “friendly” a restaurant is in catering to people with food allergies and other food intolerances, like Celiac disease (gluten intolerance). It establishes a star rating and provides space for a written comment.
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THAT’S AWESOME! I love when people build software/sites around their problems, same reason we built our site. I don’t have food allergies but could only image how difficult it is eating out at restaurants. Cheers to Paul for making the world better:)