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CAREFREE FINE ART & WINE FESTIVAL JAN 18-20 101 Easy St, Carefree

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99 Easy Street Suite 235 • Carefree, Arizona 10am-5pm • 7 days a week 480-688-4960

NORTH PHOENIX COMPANY, CERTISTAR,

PROVIDES ALLERGEN FRIENDLY MENUS

CertiStar provides allergen restaurant’s mobile device or POS friendly, individualized menus system, this eliminates the arduous to customers in restaurants back and forth between customer and (and any other place you can eat!) staff, which often leaves the patron that display, stop-light style, what with little or no feelings of safety. the customer can have or what they CertiStar’s software helps individucan modify without worrying. Often als and families feel much safer about times, the conversation that ensues their dining options. Moreover, when can be time consuming and stressful used by schools, families and children for both parties. CertiStar was can feel safer about the selections in founded by North Phoenix resident the cafeteria with the knowledge that Shandee Chernow in 2017 because an added precautionary measure has she knows exactly how painful dining been utilized to keep food allergy sufexperiences can be. Shandee suffers ferers from coming into contact with from anaphylactic food allergies and a trigger. Hospitals can use Certishe found that this particular problem Star in a similar way with patients, was not being well addressed. nearly eliminating the concern that the There are 15 million Americans (that allergies. means over 320,000 Arizonans!) that also suffer from food allergies, along The stop-light style individualized with 50 million that suffer from food menu is represented in green, yellow intolerances. Many of these people and red. Green is indicative of “Allerreact to the Top 8 (peanuts, tree nuts, gen Friendly”. Yellow means “Alshellfish, fish, soy, milk, dairy, egg lergen Friendly with Modifications” and wheat) but there are over 170 dif- (and the modifications are bulleted ferent foods that have been known to out). Finally, the “Unsafe” options cause food allergic reactions. Certi- are listed in Red. The restaurant can Star allows customers to search any choose to only show the Green or the foods, in any combination and find Green & Yellow sections as well. out which are the best choices for them to make. CertiStar also provides many educaBecause of the reactions that come Culinary schools, elementary schools, from other people, food allergy suf- high schools, hospitality organizations ferers often times feel stigmatized. and restaurants have all taken part in Frequently, food allergic guests will these educational programs. In the try to order safely and avoid having in-person classes, students even get any type of disruptive conversation to practice using trainer versions of with the establishment where they’re Epinephrine Auto Injectors. dining, put themselves at great risk. In fact, one in three food allergic Dining out, going to school, top kids report being bullied specifically notch care in hospitals...none of these around their allergy by their peers. It’s services should be impacted or limited hard to understand how food allergies by having food allergies. Today, using affect a person throughout each day technology, there is a way to increase when you’re fortunate enough to not the level of safety that service providbe affected by them. However, it’s ers can employ when providing for important to remember that it is not a people who suffer from food allergies. choice or a preference. At CertiStar, we are pleased to be By breaking menu items down into tion that is easy to employ, easy to component ingredients and then use, and makes the everyone’s expericomparing them against an ad hoc ence safer and more enjoyable and in list of allergens, CertiStar is able to educating both providers and patrons. quickly list menu items which are wrong food is served to anyone with tional sessions, both online in person. leading the way in providing a solusafe to enjoy. Accessible through a CertiStar - www.certistar.com