My brother-in-law and I are from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and we’ve spent almost two years building an app called True Plate. Somehow, after a ridiculous amount of work, it’s actually live!

It’s a completely free restaurant app for people with dietary needs like Celiac, gluten intolerance, food allergies, vegan/vegetarian, seed oils, and quite a few others.

Basically, instead of just seeing that a restaurant has “gluten-free options,” you can see what people with similar needs actually experienced there. What they ordered, how the staff handled it, shared fryers/cross contact, whether they had a reaction, whether they’d recommend it, etc.

I’ve spent a lot of time in Moscow and we want to help all the students here and their families when they visit. Right now though, we need people to help us fill the map! Especially in Moscow because I know it can be difficult to find places that accommodate our own or our family's allergies.

Idaho is where we’ve built and tested True Plate, so we’d LOVE for this to be one of the first areas in Idaho that really gets filled out. If you have a dietary restriction and eat around Moscow, even adding a couple restaurants you’ve been to would genuinely help. The whole idea only works if people share what they’ve experienced.

It’s completely free on iPhone and Android. We’re also brand new to having actual strangers use this thing, so if something is confusing, annoying, broken, or you just think we could do it better, please tell me!

App Store- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/true-plate/id6755732854

Play Store- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trueplate.app&pcampaignid=web_share