About Crumb Bouncer

To help you know what to ask at any restaurant

Dining out with Celiac Disease can be stressful. You know you need to ask questions, but:

• What exactly should you ask?
• How do you start the conversation without feeling like you're being difficult?
• Which menu items are typically safer or riskier?
• What hidden risks should you watch for?
• How do you know if a restaurant "gets it"?

Every time you walk into a new restaurant, you're doing all this mental work, trying to keep yourself and your family safe.

Our Mission

Our goal is simple: to help you walk into a restaurant feeling calmer and more confident. Knowing what questions matter, instead of winging it and hoping for the best. To help you feel supported and prepared to navigate any restaurant situation.

Our Approach

Calm, Not Alarmist

Dining out with celiac disease involves real risks, but fear doesn't help you make better decisions. Our guidance is honest about risks while staying focused on practical actions you can take. Crumb Bouncer isn't a guarantee or a replacement for your judgment—it's a tool to help you ask better questions and make clearer decisions.

Empowering, Not Prescriptive

We give you conversation tools and information, but you make the decisions. Every person with celiac disease has different comfort levels with risk. We respect that.

Realistic, Not Perfect

We use conditional language ("typically," "often," "usually") because that's the honest truth. Kitchens vary. Staff training varies. Some days are better than others. We don't pretend otherwise.

Practical, Not Theoretical

Our guidance is designed to be used at the table, in the moment. Crumb Bouncer is built on pattern recognition from real kitchens, real recipes, and the ways gluten actually shows up in restaurant cooking. So you know what questions to ask about any menu.

Who We Are

A few years ago, I was diagnosed with Celiac disease. My kids were too. And overnight, dining out went from exciting to exhausting.

As everyone with celiac knows - it becames full time detective work. Standing at the host stand, scanning the menu for any hopeful signs of GF labels or we-take-allergies-seriously statements.

Trying to figure out “what questions do I need to ask about THIS menu? Which dishes are safer? Where are the hidden risks and sneaky-gluten-whammies?”

All while feeling like you're holding up the line or making things difficult for everyone.

I kept wishing someone would just hand me a script. Tell me exactly what to say, what to ask, and what to watch for. So I built it.

Crumb Bouncer grew out of years of navigating the awkward conversations, the vague reassurances, and the moments of deciding whether to trust an answer or walk away. It's designed to be what I needed when I was first diagnosed, and what I still need every time I walk into a restaurant.

It won't eliminate risk. Nothing can. But it can help make dining out feel more manageable, more informed, and less like a blind leap-of-faith.

The right questions matter.

The more we all ask the right questions – specific, direct questions that reveal whether a kitchen actually has protocols – the more restaurants will learn what celiac disease requires. Every conversation you have, whether you order or walk away, builds awareness. Over time, that collective awareness creates change: better training, clearer procedures, accommodations that actually work.

Your questions don't just protect you. They help everyone who comes after you.

That's why I'm partnering with Beyond Celiac, donating 15% of profits to support their work driving diagnosis, advancing research, and accelerating the discovery of treatments and a cure. Individual advocacy and systemic change have to work together.

When you use Crumb Bouncer, you're supporting that mission too.

Get in Touch

Have feedback? Questions? Ideas for making Crumb Bouncer more helpful?

We'd genuinely love to hear from you. This tool gets better when people share what's working and what isn't.