What Does Foodini Do? Menu Allergen Tagging Explained

Why Restaurant Menu Allergen Tagging Is More Complex Than It Sounds

A single menu item at a modern restaurant is rarely a simple combination of a few ingredients. It can contain up to 20 sub-products — a sauce, a marinade, a garnish, a spice blend, a cooking oil. Each of those sub-products can contain up to 50 ingredients. Each ingredient carries its own allergen profile. This is the problem Foodini solves.

Supplier Integrations That Carry the Data Load

One of the most significant parts of Foodini's infrastructure is its supplier integrations. Foodini is connected to Bacca House for recipe and inventory management, and to every major food distributor — Sysco, US Foods, GFS, and others. That means for most of the products a restaurant purchases through those distributors, Foodini already has the specification data at the exact product number level.

Registered Dietitian QA: Why Human Review Is Essential for Allergen Data

After the AI tagging layer processes every recipe, a team of registered dietitians reviews every output. This is not a formality. The dietitian layer is what makes Foodini's allergen output defensible from a legal and clinical standpoint. It is the difference between allergen data that is probably right and allergen data that is verified right.