Since EU Regulation 1169/2011, every restaurant in the Czech Republic has been legally required to tell guests which of 14 named allergens each dish contains. Most restaurants comply with a photocopied sheet nobody can find. There is a better way — but first, what the law actually says.

The 14 you must declare

Gluten-containing cereals, crustaceans, eggs, fish, peanuts, soybeans, milk, tree nuts, celery, mustard, sesame, sulphites, lupin, and molluscs. The declaration must be available to the guest without asking the kitchen to guess.

Where paper compliance breaks

The sheet is printed, the menu changes, the sheet is not reprinted. A guest with a nut allergy asks a Saturday-shift waiter, who asks a busy kitchen, who answers from memory. That chain is exactly what the regulation exists to prevent — and it’s also a real safety risk to a real person.

What “automated” looks like

On a digital menu, allergens live with the dish, not in a parallel document. Change the recipe, and the labels update everywhere at once. Guests filter the menu by their own allergy, in their own language — no interrogation of staff required. This is how we built allergen handling into ProMenu.cz: all 14 allergens detected and labeled as the menu is created, so compliance becomes a by-product of publishing.

The commercial upside nobody mentions

Allergic diners choose restaurants where they feel safe, and they bring their table with them. Clear allergen information isn’t just compliance — it’s the reason a group of six picks you over the place next door.

Unsure whether your menu setup complies? We’ll take a look — no charge for the honest answer.

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