If one asks a restaurant for the ingredients list of one of their menu items,is the restaurant in any way obliged to providing this information?
Any info would help
Thanks!
Requesting ingredients list from a restaurant
LMcFind on 15/07/2015 - 16:00
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No idea why I was negged… But to elaborate on what I said If for example you call up and say you want to come to their restaurant with some friends but your friend is lactose intolerant or has a allergy they will likely happy accommodate you.
As others have said if you just call up and ask for ingredients for no reason they are under no obligation to tell you…
It's internet. maybe someone neg by mistake. +1 for you.
They might not have an ingredient list on hand, but they should be able to tell you what's in it or whether a particular ingredient is included in the meal.
If you have any allergies or intolerances, they should be able to tell you whether the food is safe for you to consume or not.It depends why you want this list. Are you a competitor or someone who wants to replicate one of their dishes? or do you have food allergies?
put it this way
go into KFC and ask them for the 11 herbs and spices for their fried chickendo you think they are obliged to tell you?
go into KFC and ask them for the 11 herbs and spices for their fried chicke
I think the 11 herbs and spices recipe is long gone. Spices yes, but 11 distinct ones has long gone.
Have you had KFC recently?
Apart from eating the skin which is laced with flour and egg and having a soggy spicy taste, the underlying chicken meat is tasteless.no i haven't had original piece in quite some time
i prefer my local charcoal chook ladened with garlic sauce over KFCwas just using it as a reference like big mac special sauce or any restaurant and their special/secret x product
- Say u are allergic to several herbs and several spices.
- read a preprepared checklist of all known herbs and spices until you have ticked off 11.
- Profit
Ask the reverse, does it have the particular ingredient you're allergic to?
^^this they are obliged to tell you
cause the last thing they would want is a lawsuit if you have allergic reactionthough still many places out there if you ask if there is any gluten in them they usually just shrug…and say maybe for most of their menu
exactly, you ask if it has X ingredient, not a list of all ingredients.
if you asked walter white for his ingredients do you think he would oblige.
You're goddamn right!
As someone who has worked as a waiter, if you asked me for all the ingredients(salt,pottassuim xyz, bi-carb soda), I would be suspicious.
If you asked if contained x,y,z, etc because you were allergic or didn't like a certain ingredient, I would understand.
If you asked what it contained eg. "whats in the stir fry?? Yes sir it has chicken, carrots, onion, cashew and oyster sauce" I would be ok too.What kind of restaurant?
Fast food joints these days have their ingredients lists available on their websites, if you want thorough detail about what goes into your food. Can understand that and your interest in such.
But yeah, as others have asked above: what level of detail do you want, and why?
I don't have any food allergies personally, but would love if everything came with ingredients lists (not so I could copy dishes.. more because I'd ideally like to know what unexpected things I might be consuming - it may affect my decision and choices too. Fewer ingredients, only whole/natural ingredients, etc rates higher for me. The purer/cleaner the better, IMO).
Doubt they would give it to you unless it's for allergy reasons, but even then, they would most likely ask you what you're allergic to and tell you yes or no if it's in the ingredients.
They are not obligated to provide you the full list of ingredients. Would you like the recipe too?
It is however perfectly reasonably to say you are allergic to "x" ingredient and ask if the dish has it or not.
"may contain traces of "fish, eggs, and nuts" DONE!
No, they are not obliged to provide the ingredients for 2 reasons.
1. The staff on duty might not know.
2. It's a legal liability if they do when someone ended up getting sick from the food.Our kids have allergies and we always make sure the food doesn't contain certain ingredients. Most of the time the waiter/waitress asks the manager and the manager asks the cook and eventually the waiter/waitress returns and say that they don't know.
It's a particular sauce I'm in love with and can't afford to keep buying it from this particular restaurant.But I guess they deserve my money since they have me hooked.
Thanks for the responses!That's perfectly understandable. A family friend of my ran a restaurant and they had a secret sauce which I haven't tasted anywhere else before with the same dish. The funny thing is my relative helped to make that secret sauce and she told me, "Don't you think it's healthy for you!"
What you could do is befriend the restaurant workers who knows the recipe then try to get the ingredients off them in a very subtle way.
Now you have me intrigued. What kind of sauce is it / what is it used for?
It's creamy mushroom sauce but I don't know why I like this one in particular (placebo?,idk) and is used with steak,chicken and chips,etc.It's also served by itself as a dip.
Chefs are your friends here… Send a jug of beer back to the kitchen for them… Even better if you can be there when they finish and have a few drinks with them…Most chefs I know are willing to share if they know how much someone enjoys their craft… They may not give everything away, but enough to set you on your way.
I think the op is looking at replicating a dish from a three Michelin star establishment
No they are not.
Recipes can be as much protected intellectual property as anything else.
Also, many recipes in restaurants etc do not use 100% base ingredients. E.g. some might use a commercially supplied cake mixtures (and sell it to you as homemade at 50x the price) but they would not be expect to pull out and recipe every single ingredient on there.
I don't see why not. They'd usually be happy to let you know if it had certain ingredients.