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Triumph Dining Gluten Free Restaurant Dining Cards (Gold Pack, Cards for American, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Mexican, Thai, Vietnamese, Greek, Italian and Greek Cuisines)

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I have used these at several different places and they are easy to read and understand! They are also plastic or laminated-like, and are great to send back to the kitchen for the chef. I am very happy with these dining cards!

I was recently diagnosed with celiac disease, and it has been a life changer! I used to enjoy going out to new restaurants, experimenting with different cuisines; but that came to a sudden halt. Now with these cards I can share with the wait staff and the chef my own food needs to see if they can accomodate me. I have had wonderful feed back from chefs, one in particular coming to my table and thanking me for sharing the card with him. He felt I made his job much easier!

These cards are a godsend! I am so tired of trying to communicate to a rushed, unlistening waiter what my dietary restrictions are. I am never comfortable that these instructions were understood or communicated to the chef. I've been "glutened" many times when I was assured a dish was gluten free. I just hand the handy, laminated card to the waiter, and know that the odds the chef will get the critical information he needs to prepare my food is higher by several orders of magnitude. These cards exist for 9 types of cuisine (Mexican, Thai, Japanese, Indian, Chinese, American, Vietnamese, Greek, and Italian) and each card is written in English and the native language. I can finally go back to all my favorite ethnic places. Moreover, the chef gets lots of information I wouldn't have known or been able to communicate - for example that fish sauce (a common Thai ingredient) often contains gluten. There are specific ingredients called out for all the cuisines covered.

My husband is so excited that his favorite Mexican restaurant is finally back in our rotation! This is unique product and a godsend for anyone trying to avoid gluten.

Based on the recommendation of a BUNCH of fellow celiacs, I purchased these. As a photographer, I'm on the road a lot, and being without an RV, that means eating out a great deal! This can be a really nerve-wracking experience for celiacs, even at restaurants considered celiac-friendly. Particularly when I'm on the road and away from home, I do NOT want to end up becoming ill because I ate something with gluten in it (nor does the idea of cancer later appeal to me). Oftentimes, servers, cooks, and management aren't entirely sure what to do with celiacs, or they don't realize that items they'd never think of as unsafe (like soy sauce) can be harmful to those sensitive to gluten. It's not their fault, they just don't know, especially in the United States.

These cards, though, tell them exactly what's safe and what isn't! I LOVE them and keep them in my purse at all times. I can't tell you how many servers and cooks appreciate them, too. Several times I've had the cook come out, holding the card with a big grin on his or her face, appreciative of the guidelines the cards offer. At a good restaurant (I'm thinking independent places and even regional chains, not big national places), they want to keep you happy and healthy, because they want you to come back again, so these cards help the restaurant as well.

If you're celiac, I can't recommend these highly enough. They come in several different languages, so those barriers can be broken as well. My husband and I love Asian food, and these cards allow me to visit Asian restaurants again.

The ONLY improvement I suggest Triumph make is to add a card that gives common problematic ingredients and lists alternatives to them. Even if the restaurant doesn't have the substitute on hand during the first visit, many will actually go out and buy it to have in the future--I've suggested various gluten-free substitutes to restaurants before, and they have actually had them the next time I come in! No, this won't ever happen at Applebee's, but at your local places, it definitely will.

I just received my cards, and used one for the first time yesterday. Wow, it really made a difference... the staff seemed much more in tune with what I had tried to explain to them in past visits. Much different experience than previously. (they didn't put toast on top of my omelet this time!)

Given all the work that went into making these multilingual cards, I finally managed to talk myself into splurging on them, and I'm very glad I did. I think they'll really make a difference - I was starting to dread going out to eat. (I hate to be such an imposition on the wait staff and chefs.) These seem like they'll make it much easier for the staff to help me eat safely.

Well worth the money.

the concept is good, but these are very expensive. The cards would be better is they came for different types of food but written in English. I have found explaining my condition to the chef on duty when ever we dine out works just as good if not better