California ADDE Act · SB-68 · Effective July 1, 2026

Compliant menus.
Before June ends.

SB-68 requires Big 9 allergen disclosure on every menu by July 1. Upload your menu and go live in one afternoon.

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Free pilot — no credit cardNo IT ticketsCancel anytimeBuilt on USDA + Open Food Facts data
Until ADDE Act enforcement
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Days
Free 30-day pilot — up to 3 locations, no credit card
A 50-dish menu goes from upload to live compliance in under an hour
Cross-referencing against 4M+ allergen data points from USDA, Open Food Facts, and FDA databases
Built on data restaurants already trust.
USDA FoodData Central/Open Food Facts/20,000+ ingredient verified database/Same-day deployment
The Deadline

July 1 isn’t a soft launch.
It’s the statutory start date.

Chain restaurants with 20+ California locations must disclose Big 9 allergens dish by dish — on printed menus, digital menus, and QR codes. Penalties apply per location, per day. There is no grace period.

85
Days until enforcement. The chains onboarding now will be live with weeks to spare.
SB-68 · California ADDE Act
$10K+
Estimated penalty exposure per violation, per location, per day of non-compliance. Consult legal counsel on your chain’s specific exposure.
SB-68 · California ADDE Act
33M
Americans with food allergies. One in three people with food allergies report having a reaction in a restaurant setting.
FARE · Food Allergy Research & Education
01
A static PDF is not ADDE compliance.The law requires live, timestamped, dish-level records. A 2024 allergen chart doesn’t satisfy that standard.
02
Consultants charge $5K–$15K per audit. And give you a spreadsheet.No live page, no QR code, no automatic updates. Every menu change is a new invoice. Your liability doesn’t transfer — it stays with you.
03
Manual audits take 6–8 weeks. You have less than that.Every week you delay is compounding exposure across every location. Nakol takes one afternoon.
How It Works

Upload. Verify. Go live.

No IT tickets. No POS integrations. A manager completes this on a tablet between lunch and dinner service.

01
Upload Your Menu
Photo, PDF, or URL. AI extracts every dish, section, and ingredient in under 60 seconds — regardless of menu length.
Under 60 Seconds
02
AI Maps the Allergens
Every ingredient cross-referenced against 4 million+ data points from USDA FoodData Central and Open Food Facts. High-confidence allergens are pre-labeled; ambiguous ingredients are flagged for your review — with the reason shown.
USDA + FDA Databases
03
Your Team Confirms
Dish by dish, your manager clicks confirm. Every action is timestamped, attributed to a specific user, and written to an append-only audit log.
Immutable Audit Log
04
Go Live — Same Day
A QR code for every table. A printable PDF allergen chart. A live digital page at nakol.ai/r/yourchain. When your menu changes, only new dishes need re-verification.
QR · PDF · Live Page
The Standard

Never inferred.
Always confirmed.

Every competitor infers allergens from ingredient names and calls it verified. Nakol requires explicit restaurant confirmation at the dish level — with a named user, a source, and a timestamp.

Step 1 · AI
Database Cross-Reference
4 million+ data points from USDA FoodData Central, Open Food Facts, and our proprietary ingredient-allergen database. Each ingredient returns allergen presence, confidence level, and exact source — so you see why a label was assigned, not just what it says.
Automated
Step 2 · Restaurant
Manager Confirmation
Every label requires an explicit confirmation from your team. Timestamped. Attributed to a specific user. This is your legal paper trail — and it stays yours, not ours.
Verified
Step 3 · Record
Append-Only Compliance Log
No edits. No deletions. Every confirmation, every menu change, every re-verification — logged permanently. Export the full history for any location in seconds.
✓ ADDE Ready
What this means for you
When the inspector comes, you hit export and hand them the log. Every dish, every allergen, every confirmation — timestamped with a name attached. That’s the difference between “we think so” and “here’s the proof.”
The compliance standard the ADDE Act was written for
Sample Restaurant · California Locations — Allergen Grid · 47 Dishes
✓ ADDE Compliant · Verified
Dish
Milk
Eggs
Fish
Shell
Tree Nut
Peanut
Wheat
Soy
Sesame
Teriyaki Chicken Bowl
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✗
✗
?
Grilled Steak Plate
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✗
✗
✓
Veggie Rice Bowl
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✗
✗
?
Shrimp Plate
✓
✓
✓
✗
✓
✓
✗
✗
?
Chicken Salad
✓
?
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✗
✓
Kids Chicken Plate
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✗
✗
✓
47 dishes confirmed by Operations Manager  ·  USDA FoodData Central + Restaurant Confirmation  ·  ✓ ADDE Act Compliant
✓ = Free of allergen  ·  ✗ = Contains  ·  ? = May Contain (cross-contamination risk noted)
Why Nakol

Every other option ends
with a spreadsheet.

Every other option ends with a spreadsheet or a sales call. Consultants charge thousands for a one-time audit that goes stale the moment your menu changes. Generic SaaS hands you a blank table. Other allergen platforms force a demo before you can even see a price. Nakol is the only end-to-end workflow built specifically for SB-68 — with a free pilot you can start today.

SolutionAllergen VerificationADDE-Compliant OutputAuto-Updates on Menu ChangePricing Transparency
Manual ConsultantOne-time snapshotPDF only — no live page✗ New invoice each time$5K–$15K per audit
In-House SpreadsheetManual — error-proneNo QR, no audit log✗ Manual updatesStaff time only
EveryBiteMenu intelligence platformFocus on guest experience + analyticsVaries by setupContact sales
FoodiniDietary intelligence platformDigital menu + QRVaries by setupContact sales
Nakol ✦✓ 4M+ data points · AI + USDA · restaurant confirmed✓ QR + PDF + live page + audit log✓ Re-verify changed dishes only✓ Start with free pilot
Pricing

Start with a free pilot.

30 days. Up to 3 locations. Everything you need to prove Nakol works at your restaurant — before you pay anything.

$0
for 30 days
Free Pilot
A scoped trial designed to prove the workflow at your restaurant. When the pilot ends, we’ll tailor a quote to your chain size and rollout.
Up to 3 pilot locations
1 menu per location (up to 75 dishes per menu)
AI allergen classification (4M+ food items · USDA + Open Food Facts)
Manager confirmation workflow
QR code + live allergen page for pilot locations
Printable PDF allergen chart
Compliance audit log for pilot period
Unlimited menu updates during pilot
Email support (response within 1 business day)
Full data export on request
Need more than 3 locations, multi-location dashboard, per-location overrides, or priority support during the pilot? Book a call — we’ll tailor a scoped pilot to your chain.
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After the pilot, pricing is tailored to your chain size and menu complexity. We’ll give you a custom quote — no hidden fees, no long-term lock-in.

FAQ

Questions before
you sign up.

Yes. Nakol supports one master menu with per-location overrides (e.g. the Santa Monica kitchen uses almond oil, the Pasadena kitchen doesn't), a single dashboard across locations, and one compliance log filterable by location for inspectors. Multi-location features beyond the 3-location pilot scope are enabled in paid plans — book a call during your pilot and we'll tailor a rollout.
At day 30 you pick a paid plan or cancel. We'll give you a custom quote during the pilot tailored to your chain size and menu complexity — no surprise pricing, no long-term lock-in. No card on file during the pilot, so we literally can't auto-charge you. If you don't upgrade, your public allergen page stays live for a 7-day grace period so you have time to decide.
No. Nakol is a web app — your operations manager logs in from any browser or tablet, uploads your menu, and completes onboarding independently. No POS integrations. No IT tickets. No developer time.
Get Started

Don’t be the chain
scrambling in June.

One location. Thirty days. Free. No credit card.
The chains starting now will be live long before the deadline.

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Why We Built This

A founder who
lived this problem.

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“I’ve been turned away from restaurants I wanted to eat at because nobody could answer a simple allergen question. I’m a data scientist who grew up navigating this. I built Nakol because the tech to solve this exists — and because the people running these chains deserve a tool built by someone who understands the problem from both sides of the counter.”
Mohamed Sami Koudir, Founder & CEO
Data Scientist · ML/AI Engineer · Duke & Duke Kunshan University
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