Kitchen and catering · KC-06

Allergen Matrix and Dish Record

A free printable allergen matrix — your dishes down the side, blank columns for the allergen headings your kitchen uses, and a record of who filled it in and when.

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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.

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The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.

What this sheet is for

Keep one grid that anybody taking an order can read, instead of a set of recipe cards nobody has time to look through during service.

Who it is for

Small kitchens, cafes, food trucks, caterers and anyone cooking for the public who needs the dish information in one place.

How to use it

Check which allergens have to be declared where you are, and write those headings into the blank columns.
Write your marking key in the box, so everybody reads a cell the same way.
List every dish on the menu down the left, in full.
Work through each dish against your recipe and mark the grid.
Date it and sign it, and fill in a new sheet whenever the menu changes.

What is on the sheet

One page, top to bottom:

Printed under the title: Your dishes down the side, the allergen headings your kitchen uses written in across the top, and a grid where the two meet — filled in once and kept where the orders are taken.

Write in your own allergen headings. The allergens that have to be declared, and the way they have to be declared, are set where you are — check the rules that apply to your kitchen and write those headings into the blank columns yourself. This sheet gives you the grid and the record of who filled it in and when; it does not tell you what belongs in it.

Write-on lines: Kitchen / site · Menu or date · Completed by · Your marking key — what you write in a cell, and what it means

Dish matrix — allergen headings go in the blank column heads

Table, 11 rows: Dish / menu item · Checked

Questions

Why are the allergen columns blank?

Because the list differs by country and it changes. Printing one would mean printing a list that is wrong somewhere, and a matrix that is wrong is worse than no matrix. Check the rules that apply to your kitchen and write your own headings in.

Does filling this in mean we have met the rules?

No. It is a working record, not a compliance document. What has to be declared, how it must be shown and what records to keep are set where you are — check those and use this as the grid your kitchen actually works from.