Print an allergen sheet for the kitchen

The prep sheet tells the kitchen what to make. The allergen sheet tells them what is in it. When somebody at the pass asks whether the mushroom tart has celery in it, this is the piece of paper that answers.

How to generate one

• Log in to CaterWay.
• Open Quote Requests from the menu on the left and open the order.
• Click More actions near the top of the quote.
• Choose Allergen sheet.

The sheet builds itself from what you have already entered. There is nothing to fill in at this point, which is rather the point: the work happened earlier, on the products.

What is on it

Every food item on that order, each row listing which of the 14 allergens named in EU food law it contains, plus the customer, the date and the location so the sheet identifies itself when it is lying on a counter.

Each dish reads one of three ways:

• the allergens it contains, listed
• None declared, meaning you actively confirmed that none of the 14 apply
• Not specified, meaning nobody has reviewed that dish yet

That third one matters more than it looks. Not specified never means safe. It means the question has not been answered. If any dish on the sheet is in that state, a warning at the top says so, so a cook reading it in a hurry cannot mistake a blank for a clean bill of health.

Fixing a "not specified"

Open the product, go to Allergens, and set each of the 14 to one of its three states by clicking the chip: nothing said, contains, or free of. If genuinely none of them apply, tick Confirm none of these apply so it becomes a real statement rather than an unanswered question.

Regenerate the sheet afterwards and the row updates.

Taking it out of CaterWay

The dialog gives you three ways out: print it, download it as a PDF, or copy it as plain text to paste into a message to your kitchen or a subcontractor.

What it is not

The sheet carries a disclaimer, and it is worth reading rather than scrolling past. It reflects only the allergen information entered into CaterWay for those products. It is a kitchen aid, not proof of compliance, and it cannot know about the flour on the worktop or the substitution somebody made on the day. Confirm with the kitchen before serving a guest with an allergy.

Good to know

• This is free on every plan.
• The allergen sheet is about your dishes. What the guests cannot eat is a separate list, which the customer fills in if your calculator asks. See Ask the customer who cannot eat what.
• Read the two together and you have the whole picture: who is coming with what, and what is in what you are serving them.