One of the things we train servers to do is ask if anyone has any food allergies whenever they greet the table. As far as accommodations, we start with the most common allergies and try to educate the staff on what those are and what ingredients those go with. From there, we eliminate those based on what the person’s allergy is and provide an immediate suggestion that is safe for them. Gluten is a hard one here; there are a lot of fried things and a lot of bread. While it might be easy most of the time to know what has gluten, it is harder to find an accommodation that’s not just a salad to fulfill that. The hardest part about that are the secret ingredients. Not necessarily secret, but soy sauce in a marinade or something like that, that the staff might not know about. In any situation where we have that, they do their best to control it at the table and answer any questions, and they always go back to the kitchen and double check. The guys that are making the food know it a lot better. They know the products better; they know the recipes better.

We are pretty easy on the tree nuts--we don’t really have a lot. We have one salad that has it. We don’t have any peanut oil or anything like that. We use canola oil. The biggest one that I see is gluten. Like I said, that just eliminates things like the burger bun, but we have a gluten-free burger bun. All of our burgers are pretty straight up: just salt and pepper on the meat. There’s cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and onions, so it’s really easy to know where the gluten is on that. We lean towards that--the gluten-free bun. Pizza we don’t really have a replacement for right now. There are products out there for gluten-free. Most of them are nut allergies and gluten allergies. MSG is a hard one to find. We don’t have a lot of items that have MSG, but it’s one of those ingredients that sometimes is hidden in a product, like a sauce or soy sauce, or glaze. Stuff like that. That one is harder to track down. Like I said, the nut one is pretty easy because we only have one thing with nuts. There’s really only one thing that has soy sauce--the salmon marinade. Those are the two biggest ones that I’ve run into.