Menu Allergen Software for EU Restaurants (Regulation 1169/2011)

In the EU, restaurants must inform guests about the 14 main allergens in the food they serve. Allergen software built into your digital menu makes this simple: tag each dish once, guests see the allergens by name next to the dish, in their own language, and a change is live the moment you save it, with no reprinting.

What the law requires (Regulation 1169/2011)

EU Food Information Regulation 1169/2011 (in Germany the LMIV) requires the 14 main allergens to be declared for non-prepacked food too, including in restaurants. How you give the information is partly national:

• Germany: in writing, electronically or orally, orally only with written documentation in the venue and a clearly visible notice (Federal Ministry, allergen labelling).
• Austria: the Allergeninformationsverordnung covers the same 14 allergens, commonly marked with the letters A to R (WKO).
• The Netherlands: in writing or orally, as long as staff can always tell guests and the information is also ready in writing or electronically (NVWA).
• Italy: leaving allergen information out is fined 3,000€ to 24,000€ under Article 19 of Legislative Decree 231/2017 (InformaImpresa).

The 14 allergens

Cereals containing gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, peanuts, soybeans, milk, nuts, celery, mustard, sesame, sulphur dioxide and sulphites, lupin and molluscs.

How it works in doXmenu

1. Open a dish and tick the allergens it contains.
2. Guests see them by name next to the dish, in the language they chose.
3. When a recipe changes, change the tick: every guest sees the new version at once.
4. Additive notes such as "contains caffeine" or "with colouring" go in the dish description.

What stays your job: the accuracy of the information and the written allergen documentation for your staff and inspectors.

Frequently asked questions

Start free, read about QR menus in Germany and Austria, or see QR menus by country.