How are Gluten allergies handled in the lounges? Specifically is there a way to have foods that are safe available? And can you get coke zero instead of diet coke? Thanks Looking at Yacht club regatta club for Labor Day.
Each lounge is slightly different in how they handle allergies. Generally, the staff has the person with the allergies talk to a chef to specify their needs, much like they do at WDW table service restaurants. In fact, if you are dining at a restaurant in your home resort (On arrival night), you will literally talk to the same person.
You might be offered prepackaged allergen-free items. If cross contamination is an issue for you, (say guests using the bread tongs to pick up veggies) they sometimes offer to box up an item (say some veggies) for you before they go out on the buffet. They might simply advise you to avoid certain obvious items.
In other cases, WDW restaurants have a standardized allergen -free menu. In place of the regular CL items, the chefs will bring you a comparable (appetizer) item from that hotel's restaurant's allergen free menu. The chef may give you a short list of available items they can bring. Each location is slightly different.
If you ask the lounge to have allergen-food for you, in return, they chefs ask you to commit to showing up. So if you want a dessert item on July 11, they expect you to show up for the dessert hours on July 11.If you KNOW you wont be in the lounge during dessert hour, you should tell them you won't be there.
So up front, they commit to having an item on hand specifically for YOU. Even still, especially where hot appetizers are concerned- when you arrive at the designated hour, you have to ask for your food, the chef delivers it to you. In some cases, they need time to cook your food. In the case of prepackaged items, they sometimes bring a few days' worth of prepackaged items all at once.
I'm not positive, but I don't think they will provide a specific flavor of soda for you. They also don't do anything to keep other guests from eating gluten (or any other allergen containing food).
If you go to the DISabilites section of the DIS, there should be a thread that lists specific brands WDW currently uses for their prepackaged allergen-free items.
Usually, if you tell a CL you have an allergen, AND you have the IPO make your ADR's, then the allergy will be noted on all your ADR's, and a chef will come talk to you. IF they don't say anything to you, just tell your server about your allergy, and they'll put in the request. I think, in most cases now, they will hand you the prepared allergen-free menu.
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. Very strange about the radio. They took them out of all the rooms and now new ones have magically appeared? Love to know if this is resort-wide or just at Poly. Bring back the clocks!
