Quick Service Dining with Multiple Food Allergies including Peanut

[MagicalMeg]

Does anyone have recommendations about the best QS to eat at for a guest with multiple food allergies? Can anyone tell me any QS, counters service, snack stands that already have the new allergy menus? My son is three and allergic to egg whites/unbaked egg, tree nuts and peanuts. I'm planning on emailing special diets with our ADRs (all of which have his allergies listed on them) and also our plans for QS meals. But I'd like to have a few options in the parks for quick bites if we're hungry at a random time or across the park from the restaurant I listed in emailing special diets. I also want to avoid standing in line somewhere only to look at the allergy book and realize there's nothing he can eat and have to go stand in line somewhere else. (This happened last summer, we were very new to the nut allergies, I had told him he could have French fries only to find out after standing in line that QS didn't have French fries.) We are staying at Animal Kingdom lodge so will hopefully eat at the Mara at least one meal
a day until we get sick of it

 

[Betty Rohrer]

you are most likely going to have to look at the book each place because each place is different. also be ready for peanut better to be in the parks with guests bringing in and eating while walking and waiting anywhere

 

[mistysue]

Officially "any place you go to will feed you and you have to ask when you get there" - but I see your experiences are more like mine.

When in the parks with my son (wheat, soy, egg, dairy, peanut, treenut, sesame, buckwheat, shellfish allergies) our "go-to" places at this point are Columbia Harbor House (allergy chicken tenders) or Cosmic Ray's (hot dogs, burgers, chicken) at MK, Sunshine seasons at EPCOT (think yummy healthy feeling food) or Backlot express (standard fast food with allergy options) at HS. I hear Flame Tree BBQ is good for allergies but we haven't been there. If your son likes hot dogs and fries we have also gone to Casey's, not mentioned the allergies and gotten a bun free plain hot dog. They turned us down the day before due to cross contamination but at that time I know nothing he couldn't have was directly in the food. My son is very sensitive to egg and pistachio with most of his other reactions being mild, so this may not work for you as we can take some risks others can not.

Honestly we don't plan on QS if we are going to HS or AK because we are too used to not being able to eat out and we have TS we enjoy too much to skip at both. Our first trip to HS it took us multiple locations and in the end a 40 minute wait at Backlot express to get DS food that was not random pieces of fruit (he won't eat raw fruit and all of his allergies started as aversions so this was of no use to us as we learned not to push him)
All of the other QS locations at MK have turned us away at one time or another and EPCOT is questionable because many of the places are not Disney owned and there can be random language barriers. We have had a great time with Rose and Crown and Biergarten for getting safe food as a sit down in the world showcase.

If you go to a hotel to eat, they will likely find you very easy to deal with and will often put more effort into getting you good food. If you want to take a brief walk from the world showcase, Hurricane Hanna's at the BC/YC pool area was among my son's top choices for grilled chicken. If you need a break from the MK, anywhere on the monorail line will have both a QS and a casual TS that will both have great options for you.

 

[mistysue]

Oh- I forgot, our "emergency need a snack" in the middle of MK options are The plaza ice cream place or the dole whip place. We also avoid dairy so I'm not certain if their "normal" ice cream has egg but they also have Tofutti and Rice Dream.

 

[Random Ninja]

With egg, peanut, and tree nuts being Top 8 allergens, you are going to find lots of options for your DS. There are very few places that have nuts, and most of them that do just offer Smuckers Uncrustibles. How does your DS do with gluten free foods? Many of the allergy-friendly options are gluten free and they taste different.

 

[Selket]

My younger son has a severe peanut/tree nut/shellfish allergy and we are able to eat just about everywhere at WDW without a problem - QS, TS, snack carts, etc. The egg white is something I have no experience with so I don't know how common it is - perhaps when egg is listed as an allergen then you just avoid it completely not knowing if it is egg white or cooked? Every place seems to have a book and mention that to the person before you order and be prepared to wait...and perhaps hold up people behind you. Dealing with "the book" takes awhile.

I'll admit I don't know what the new allergy menus are. We were just there in April and I didn't notice anything new - lol! My son is old enough to deal with chefs and CS people on his own now. They are almost always polite and helpful and chefs and managers will allow substitutions for sides that can't be eaten, etc. The biggest problem we have is with desserts and sweet treats and I suspect you may also - most places the things are cross-contaminated with nuts so add in the egg issue and that seems especially tough. You may want to focus on getting some info just on sweet things if your son likes that stuff. I guess we love to eat our desserts on vacation and really we can't all sit down and be eating giant slices of awesome desserts while he sits and watches...hahaha. Your son is just 3 so maybe you can bring things into the park that you know he loves to eat and he'd be happy with that. When my son was around that age (he is 13 now) he was thrilled with the ice pops from the ice cream carts.

 

[Thing 1]

One mention about the egg whites. Our trip a few years ago was when DS was in transition of out growing his egg allergy and were at the point when he could egg baked eggs and really mostly avoided things like dressings , eggy desserts and egg dishes. We mentioned the allergy along with the very serious peanut one and found that no chief would bring ANY egg containing food. We decided after a meal or two to just police that our self as it really limited things that were fine for him. There are not a lot of places we avoid. Anything Asian we avoid, we avoid Ohana because of the peanut sauce and we avoid Pinocchio House because they serve PBJ and tons of kids like to run around to look out the big window and it gets lot of PBJ smears. We have more issue with peanut butter cracker eating kids in lines than in restaurants.

 

[clanmcculloch]

We have those allergies and more between my family members. I'd like secon mistysue's suggestions. My go to list is as follows.

MK: CHH (chicken tenders w/fries), Cosmic Ray (rotisserie chicken, ribs)
Epcot: Sunshine seasons (sooooo many choices), if suck un WS then Liberty Inn (chicken tenders w/fries)
AK: FTBBQ (rotisserie chicken, ribs w/fries)
DHS: the bigger QS have chicken tenders w/fries)

Because he can have baked eggs, he should I believe also be able to have burgers w/bun at many of these places, maybe even pizza (I'm not sure as my egg allergic DD can't have baked and can't have even the allergy pizzas due to other allergies.

Mara will take really good care of you. We had an awesome experience there.

I really can't help much with desserts though because our limitations are far more restrictive than yours so at QS locations we're limited to Enjoy Life cookies or occasionally potato chips or fruit. Unless we have a dining plan (very rare) then we just get a treat elsewhere.