About Picknic
Our Mission
Our mission is to make it easier and safer for everyone with food allergies, celiac disease, gluten-free diets, plant-based diets, or other special diets to enjoy dining out. We do that in two ways:
- By providing the most robust and accurate information available anywhere, we make it simple to find restaurants and menu items that are appropriate for your diet.
- By working directly with restaurants, we raise awareness and create more options for people with food allergies or gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan diets.
Our History
In 2018 we began working with restaurants to help them better serve guests with food allergies, celiac disease, and special diets such as gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan diets. We still delight every time we hear success stories from restaurants and guests about excellent dining experiences that we have helped create.
In 2019 we began dreaming of an app that would make it easy to find restaurants based on their level of employee education, procedures for avoiding cross-contact, and their accommodations for specific dietary restrictions (gluten-free, egg-free, soy-free, etc.). Then, we decided to add dietary restriction menus and featured menu items so that anyone using the app could answer, “What can I actually eat there?”
In 2020 we built and released the first version of our web app. We spent a lot of time talking to restaurants and to people like you to understand what we needed to add (or subtract).
In 2021 we began rolling out upgrades to our web app and adding new restaurants. We’re making changes all the time, so what we have to offer next week will be even better than what you see now. If you like what we are doing or have suggestions for how we can make Picknic better, please let us know!
Our Stories
We are people that have to manage food allergies, food intolerances, celiac disease, and plant-based diets in our own lives every day. We delight in shared meals with family and friends, and we know the anxiety and difficulty that comes with dining out. We have backgrounds in healthcare, nutrition, food service, entertainment, and more. Here are a few of our stories.
Join Us
We are growing and thoughtfully adding people to our team. We are looking for nutritionists, developers, data scientists & engineers, marketers, and PR professionals. But more than specific skills, we look for people that are creative, resourceful, and passionate about helping us accomplish our mission.
If you are interested in joining us, please email us and tell us why our mission is important to you.