Allergy-aware restaurant menus for guests and hospitality teams
Can I Dine?™ helps restaurants turn their current menu into a digital menu guests can filter by allergies, dietary needs, and personal ingredient restrictions. Teams review the menu information before publishing. Guests scan a branded QR code, select their needs, and use the results to discuss their order with staff.
From menu upload to a clearer conversation
Start with a PDF, image, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint menu. AI-assisted upload prepares dishes and ingredient information for the restaurant to check. Staff confirm ingredients, available modifications, cooking oils, and cross-contact notes before making the menu available to guests.
When recipes, suppliers, or preparation methods change, update the restaurant menu so guests can see the revised information. A digital menu gives front-of-house and kitchen teams a shared starting point for dietary questions.
Allergies, dietary preferences, and custom restrictions
Guests can combine food allergies with vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, keto, celiac, kosher, halal, and custom dietary needs. The menu distinguishes suggested dishes, dishes that may need modification, and dishes to avoid based on the available restaurant information.
Ingredient compatibility does not establish religious certification or guarantee a dish is free from cross-contact. Guests should discuss preparation, substitutions, and cross-contact concerns with restaurant staff before ordering.
Menus in 10 languages
The guest experience supports English, Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Amharic. Guests can read the restaurant's menu information in their preferred language while using the same dietary-selection workflow.
Translated menu information supports the conversation at the table. Restaurants remain responsible for confirming their ingredients and preparation practices, including any details a guest needs clarified.
Frequently asked questions
What is Can I Dine?™?
Can I Dine?™ is restaurant allergen menu software. A restaurant uploads its current menu, reviews the dishes, ingredients, cooking oils, and shared equipment, and publishes a QR code menu. Guests scan it, choose their allergies and dietary needs, and see the menu sorted into suggested dishes, dishes that may need a modification, and dishes to avoid.
Which allergies and diets can guests filter by?
Guests can filter by the nine major U.S. food allergens plus gluten, mustard, celery, lupin, sulfites, corn, mushroom, citrus, alliums, and nightshades. They can combine those with vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, keto, and celiac needs, kosher or halal where the restaurant declares it serves them, and custom ingredients they type in themselves.
Does Can I Dine?™ handle cross-contact and shared fryers?
Yes. Restaurants declare which dishes share a fryer, grill, or prep station and which cooking oils they use. Guests see cross-contact warnings on affected dishes, and a Severe allergy setting removes dishes with relevant shared-equipment or cooking-oil exposure.
What languages does the guest menu support?
English, Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Amharic.
Does Can I Dine?™ guarantee a dish is safe?
No. Can I Dine?™ organizes the information the restaurant provides so guests and staff can have a clearer conversation. It does not inspect kitchens or certify allergen-free preparation. Guests should always tell staff about their restrictions before ordering.