Peanuts in GBK

[gobuddy]

Aaaargh: Just as more and more places are beginning to understand about allergies Gourmet Burger Kitchen have started putting out peanuts on the tables of their restaurants - So now DS who is allergic to peanuts can't eat there any more.

There's a facebook page campaigning for GBK to stop having peanuts out. If you could just "like" this page titled Please GBK: Remove free peanuts from your restaurants it might help them change their minds.

The Facebook link is

Thanks

As a parent of a child with treenut and seed allergies, who was also allegic to peanuts, I agree with babybarrister, I don't see the problem.

DH wouldn't be able to sit in a restaurant with bowls of peanuts on the table. The smell makes him react . And the protein is going to be on everything.

I'm with gobuddy on this one, it's unnecessary and irresp

I'm with gobuddy on this one, it's unnecessary a bit irresponsible and downright avoidable. I'm sure there are lots of snacks that could be put out instead.

Yes, SDD could have sat next to the bowl that we would have swiftly removed, however, she would have felt badly that she couldn't have them, her siblings would feel that once again the allergy ruled over the fun of breaking open a load of monkey nuts (that is what my local branch put out) and generally SDD would have felt once more segregated.

Unfun and very avoidable. Anyway, their burgers are so big who needs a big bowl of monkey nuts?

Those of us who's families found out about their loved ones allergies did so at a moment of total horror and shock, why find out in a public, busy restaurant when panic would naturally follow.

All opinions are my own :)

Ugh a false start and bad grammar ... Fail! 'whose' obviously not 'who's'

Gbk have seseme seeds on all their buns.Ds is allergic to seseme seeds as well, are you going to ask for those to be banned as well. Where do you stop.

Bruffin - yep, can see that too, good point well made.

I think I agree with BlueBumedFly, for all the reaons she gives. It does seem like a pointless, unnecessary and avoidable risk. For most allergic people, it might not be a problem, but a few people do react to peanuts when they are simply in the same room and, if children are eating peanuts all over the restuarant, then there will be traces of peanut protein on absolutely everything, from the chairs to the handles on the toilet doors.

(Disclaimer: my DS is not particularly allergic to peanuts, as far as I know, although we have ben told to avoid them.)

Having said that, I regularly take DS to McDonalds, where there is cheese everywhere and sesame seeds on lots of the buns. We wipe the table and DS's chair before we sit down, but McDonalds is one of the safest places we can take him because they list all their ingredients, the staff are helpful and well trained and the food hygiene is very good there.

Hmm, difficult one this because I'm normally not in favour of blanket bans as I don't think they're realistic (I always say life isn't freefrom). Also, the bans are almost always on nuts and this gives the false impression that nut allergies are somehow more serious than any other food allergy (DS2 has life-threatening allergies to milk, wheat & egg and possibly nuts but not sure yet). I certainly wouldn't expect any restaurant to ban milk, wheat & eggs in their restaurants so why should they ban nuts? I'm more concerned about restaurants making sure they clean properly and avoid cross-contamination in the kitchen. However, having said all that I can't help thinking that nuts on the tables is a really silly idea. DH is allergic to nuts too (thankfully only if he eats them) and I really wouldn't be happy if any restaurant put nuts on the tables just as I wouldn't be happy if they put bowls of milk on the table (unlikely I know but you get what I mean). I certainly won't go to GBK now that I know they do this (not that I probably would've anyway but that's beside the point).