[Sca-cooks] Minor rant - allergies and following directions

[Kathleen Gormanshaw]

I'd give people with significant food restrictions until 2 weeks
before the event, otherwise they get the ingredients list and can pick
and choose for themselves.

I think you have a bigger problem with your reservations steward not
understanding your needs or the importance of communicating them on
time.  Tell him a horror story of some sort, even a hypothetical one:
"If I don't know about so & so with X allergy then she could eat the
____ and DIE if we don't get her to the hospital on time!"

Eyrny