San Francisco restaurant closes and leaves angry note: "we don't give a f*** about gluten-free"

[pnwmom]

110. The ADA does cover restaurants, according to the government's ADA website.

Read and learn.

It is easy for a restaurant to leave MSG out of a dish and/or substitute a wheat-free soy sauce for the standard kind, and the ADA requires restaurants to make simple accommodations of this sort.

Why would you say "thank goodness" to your mistaken idea that the ADA doesn't cover people with food allergies? Why is the idea that people could be easily accommodated so offensive to you?


http://www.ada.gov/reachingout/lesson11.htm

This is why the ADA requires businesses to make “reasonable modifications” in their usual ways of doing things when it is necessary to accommodate customers who have disabilities. Most accommodations involve making minor adjustments in procedures or providing some extra assistance to a customer with a disability. Usually the customer will let you know if he or she needs some kind of accommodation.

SNIP

A customer with a food allergy may ask a restaurant if it is possible to omit a sauce or ingredient from a dish he or she wishes to order. When it is easy to do, the request should be honored.