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  • I can see it being very easy to mix up orders, and put different names on coffee cups, it looks manic at busy times.

    Also plenty of people drink alternative milks due to preference or beliefs rather than allergy/intolerance, so a small amount of cross contamination is probably rarely noticed.
    It’s the first time I’ve heard of someone having a deadly allergy to milk/lactose though.

    There’s probably trace amounts of lactose in any restaurant food that’s not vegan.

  • Also plenty of people drink alternative milks due to preference or beliefs rather than allergy/intolerance, so a small amount of cross contamination is probably rarely noticed.

    Of all the food/catering adjacent things I've used, I feel like a milk wand for steaming milk would be the hardest to confidently sanitise for someone with a severe allergy.

    Obviously in an ideal world you have two and never mix them up, but at my current workplace the machine only has one so that wouldn't be an option

    (At the risk of going back to boring anecdotes about flying food)

    Vegetarian ramen, you say? Okay, we’ll just serve the regular pork bone broth but without a slice of meat in

    When I was in Vietnam I just told everyone that I was Buddhist and that seemed to get the message across easily enough; although created more confusion when I would sometimes have an omelette

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