Your (not so) delicardicious experiences

How do people in restaurants react to your allergies and food intolerances? Please share your stories with us!

Do waiters roll their eyes at you? Or do business partners give you quizzical looks at business lunchs? Did a date go wrong? Did you encounter problems with kindergarden staff or other parents because they find it hard to understand that your child may only eat specific foodstuffs? Or did a request at a restaurant to consider your allergies turn into a seemingly neverending conversation with the cook?

We would really like to know! Please share your experiences without the DELICARDO Foodcard with us and email us at info@enomis.de 

With your permission we would then like to post your story here on our website – of course we can and will withhold your name if you would like to remain anonymous.

Experiences with (and without) the DELICARDO Foodcard

February 2009, Koblenz, Dr. Burghardt
As an SAP-Consultant I don’t just have to travel a lot and stay in hotels and eat there; I also often do business with partners and clients over lunch (under serious time pressure) and dinner.
Most of the restaurants I’ve been to were very customer-friendly and the staff really tried to cater to my wishes. If you carefully explain that you would just like steak and salad and that there mustn’t be any grains in your food or on the kitchen utensils then chances are you’ll be okay. But it’s all this careful explaining that spoils the business talk -- all of a sudden you’ll find you’ve stopped talking about the optimisation of processes and have instead moved on to diarrhoea and indigestion.
If it then turns out your order didn’t quite work out you have to send the food back and wait again… that’s not exactly brilliant. I’ll now give the DELICARDO Foodcard a go – maybe it’ll really make eating at restaurants a lot easier.
Good luck to the DELICARDO-Team!
Regards
Dr. Burghardt

February 2009, Frankfurt, M Thomsen
I have been living in Frankfurt for two years now and I’ve grown accustomed to the city. As I suffer from an allergy to hen’s eggs I went looking for restaurants suitable for allergy sufferers the instant I moved here. Sadly, I couldn’t really find any.
Thanks to my DELICARDO Foodcard I can now go to any restaurant that takes my fancy and I don’t feel as restricted anymore

April 2009, Wangen, Ms Elmers
My lactose intolerance has kept me on the go for 4 years now. The cosy evenings with friends had become a torture, because I had always disturbed the others’ conversations when addressing my extra wishes to the waiter and the cook.
And yet I had to consider so many things. I often wondered in such situations why there is no sort of restaurant card or restaurant pass for allergy sufferers, which relieves me of all of this? The DELICARDO is now the best help for me and even my friends do not look annoyed any more!

May 2009, Mannheim, Mr Zeus
My wife urged me to see a doctor, because I always felt nauseous after eating cheese. My doctor diagnosed histamine intolerance. We often go out with our club and have dinner in a restaurant together.
When so many people order it always takes rather long one way or another, but I would always be the one to break the mould. I came to realise that going to a restaurant as someone suffering from an allergy is no picnic.

May 2009, Munich, Ms Stemmer
I travel a lot – and that is also a requirement of my job, as I have to be mobile. For me it is an everyday event to have meetings entailing business lunches. It is in appropriate to talk about my gluten intolerance in front of the others in such a case, because then they get the impression that I am pitiful and ill and need to be taken care of.
That is why going to restaurants with my allergies was generally a burdensome endeavour and moreover an intrusion into my privacy, as I had to reveal personal details about myself. The DELICARDO spares me this inconvenience and for that I am truly grateful!

February 2009, Berlin, Viktoria
I went out to dinner at Vox with my friend. Thanks to the DELICARDO Foodcard ordering was really easy despite the fact that I suffer from Coeliac disease. I didn’t have to make complicated alterations to the dishes on the menu.  The waiter took a good look at my DELICARDO and was very impressed. He said he’d never seen anything like it and that my Foodcard would make things much easier for the kitchen staff.
When my food was brought to our table is was just perfect. It tasted delicious and I had no health problems whatsoever the next day. Those guys down at Vox seem to know what they’re doing!
Thanks to everyone at DELICARDO for coming up with this great idea!

February 2009, Heidelberg, Ms Zanke
Basically over night my daughter contracted a fructose and sorbitol malabsorption. Suddenly there were so many things that I had to watch out for. No one else in our family suffers from allergies, which means I knew nothing about them and had no idea which products to use. I had a lot of reading up on the subject to do.
Eating at restaurants or at a friend’s house also proved problematic as Larissa found it hard to always talk about her fructose and sorbitol malabsorption. But things got much easier now that she’s got her DELICARDO – she doesn’t mind showing her Foodcard with the cute princess motif.

March 2009, Rostock, Mr Winkelmeier
It’s been half a year since I first started changing my eating habits and my diet in order to be able to cope with my allergies to grain and wheat. Was I supposed to forgo my daily bread? At the beginning I felt overwhelmed and didn’t know how to work my everyday life around my allergy.
While searching for tips and information for allergy sufferers I chanced upon an internet forum where the DELICARDO Foodcard was mentioned. For me the DELICARDO is the solution to my problem: it helps me stick to my dietary regime and makes the communication with kitchen staff much easier.

May 2009, Erlangen, Ms Ludwig
I love nut cakes. But I can’t eat them anymore. I have a nut allergy that kann be very dangerous for me.
But I won’t let my pleasure in sweets be taken away. When I go to a restaurant and order dessert, I just give them my DELICARDO and am served a nut-free treat.

May 2009, Leverkusen, Bistro Schiller
Preparing foods for people with allegies is a real challenge. If we know exactly what the customer can and can’t eat, then it is no problem. The DELICARDO restaurant card does exactly that.