California Chains: Allergen Disclosure Starts In:

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Starting June 1, 2026, restaurants with 20+ locations must provide written allergen disclosure on menus.

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What’s Changing in California

Starting June 1, 2026, restaurant chains must provide written allergen information on menu items for these 9 allergens:

Will This Law Affect Your Business?

If your business is located in California and meets the below criteria then you must provide written allergen disclosure by June 1, 2026.

Operates in 20+ Service Locations
Restaurant chains and multi-site operators are affected.
Serves Prepared Menu Items
Dishes made from ingredients and recipes.
Provides Menus to Customers
Printed or digital menus at the point of order.

Why Compliance Is Difficult Today

Allergen information often lives in disconnected places.

Supplier Specs
Ingredient data buried in supplier documents.
Spreadsheets
Manual allergen tracking quickly becomes outdated.
Recipe Documents
Updates don’t always flow through to menus.
Staff Knowledge
Front-of-house teams rely on memory.
How it works

4-Steps to Simple Compliance

1. Add Ingredients

Integrate with supplier databases or use spreadsheets to import ingredients to create a central database of ingredients with allergen data.

2. Build Recipes

Recipes automatically calculate allergens using validated ingredients.

3. Place in Menus

Menus automatically display allergen information for each dish.

4. Stay Compliant

Ingredient and recipe updates automatically flow through to menus, keeping them accurate and up-to-date.

Ingredient & recipe allergen tracking

Upload ingredients and their information and add them to recipes to instantly access recipe information.

Allergen details in your customers hands

Retail & Restaurant
Events & Catering
Stadiums & Venues
Hospitality

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Join the thousands already using Kafoodle

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Using Kafoodle allows us to publish our latest menu live keeping our website up to date with our dishes for that day as well as update prices, allergen and dietary information as required.

Zoe Murphy
Marketing Manager
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The onboarding at Kafoodle was smooth and the staff there are lovely. We now have full confidence about the allergens and price of the food we deliver.

Sally Rose Haines
Head of Nutrition
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Kafoodle, from the beginning proved to be extremely easy to use and intuitive. The software is a really helpful tool, able to link the purchasing, NPD and technical functions.

Andrea Barzaghi
Head of Process Technology
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Kafoodle allows us to drive greater product consistency and improved visibility of cost prices in an ever challenging environment. In simple terms, it gives our chefs more time to be hands on, doing what they do best

Maxwell McKenzie
Director of Food & Operations
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Since the school started using Kafoodle, creating a menu takes a lot less time and it’s a much smoother process.

Luca Tomassetti
Catering Manager
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Transparent allergen information has also been a huge help to both the front-of-house and kitchen team. Being able to amend cost prices at head office level means that our head chefs can be more reactive to market prices thanks to Kafoodle.

Tim Watts
Executive Chef
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Kafoodle is really easy-to-use and their labelling solution is one of the best out there!

Oliver Fisher
Sales Manager
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The ease of use means chefs can use Kafoodle on a daily basis to keep all food information up to date.

Chris Ashmore
Operations Director & Strategic Catering Lead
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Kafoodle provides all the data required for compliant food labelling and we are able to extract this information seamlessly.

Mark Warde
Director
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Kafoodle makes life very easy for our team, whether they are accessing recipes or giving information to customers.

Neil Potts
Founder
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The customer service from Kafoodle has been excellent with training and support being an ongoing journey.

James Pickering
Head of Catering Services
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Kafoodle is miles better than using a spreadsheet.

Charles Oppenheim
Founder
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Kafoodle is an all-encompassing recipe management solution.

Simon Wolanski
Founder

Offer Summary

Here’s what this California 2026 Compliance Offer means for your business:

  • If you sign up before July 1, 2026, you’ll receive three months of free access to 365 Kitchen Management, powered by Kafoodle.
  • Your business must be located in California, USA.
  • A 12-month minimum contract applies, starting July 1, 2026.
  • Billing begins on July 1, 2026, and can be paid annually upfront or monthly via GoCardless.

What’s included:

  • Full access to Recipe & Menu Management
  • One interactive menu for your primary (head office) location
  • One one-hour onboarding session
  • One ingredient & recipe data import
  • Access to our support chatbot and knowledge base

What’s not included:

  • Additional onboarding
  • Additional sites or interactive menus
  • Add-on modules (labelling, carbon labelling, stock & ordering, meal planning, person-centred meal ordering)
  • Additional data imports or supplier integrations

Additional services are available at standard pricing.