Background

 

Our two daughters, Stacie (11), and Alexa (8) have extremely life threatening allergies to peanuts, tree nuts, and seeds. Although our girls are strong, and understand and accept their medical condition, the limitations can be very hard on them. The dangers are unavoidable. Going to restaurants, parties/events, and their own schools can feel like walking through a minefield. The gravity of food allergies are generally not understood by those outside of allergy child community, and we can’t expect others to understand. So, we are constantly researching and trying to find new products that they can safely eat; making lists of allergy-friendly restaurants; keeping track of new allergy innovations, and educating anyone in our daughter’s lives that will listen. It’s throughly exhausting, but necessary. 
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​​There are a handful of allergy-friendly bakeries and food product companies scattered across the country, but they are hardly helpful in our day-to-day lives. Through our constant research, we find ourselves asking the same questions over and over, “why is there not more local allergy-friendly version of this, or that?” After a decade of hoping and asking why nobody is opening such businesses, we have now asked, “why not us?” We can do this. We can create a much needed allergy-friendly experience for my girls… and the many families in our community and beyond that are dealing with the exact same issues.
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​​Two in every ten children have life-threatening food allergies, and that number is growing. That means that there are multiple kids with severe allergies in every classroom.

 

​​The Plan

 

Our mission is to offer allergy-friendly products and services that will make life a little more enjoyable for anyone dealing with life-threatening allergies. We will accomplish this in multiple steps by offering the following allergy-friendly products and services:
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​​Baked Goods & Desserts - We will offer “award-winning” baked goods, and sweets, including cakes, cupcakes, cookies, pies, breads, muffins, etc. We will have multiple kitchens and strict policies to make sure that what we are delivering safe products for our customers.
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Coffeehouse - A place where anyone can come enjoy great coffee or tea, and baked goods or sweets from our allergy friendly kitchens.
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Market - Our market will carry only allergy-friendly products. We will stock absolutely no peanut, or tree nut products at all, and will have products available for every allergen and product categories and combination.

​​App - Our app will tie everything together. View all of our products and menu items. Filter by your allergens, personal profile, and interests. Order products and services. Keep up with news and education. View event calendars and much more.
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Events - We will produce and accommodate, concerts, meetings, talks, seminars, parties, etc., in an allergy-friendly environment.
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Education - We will provide food allergy educational events, articles, news, and training that are beneficial to the local communtiy.