As an employer, your duty of care extends to the food you provide or make available in the workplace. With food allergies affecting millions of UK adults, creating an allergy-aware workplace is both a legal responsibility under the Equality Act and a practical expression of genuine care for your team.
The Legal Framework
Food allergies that substantially affect daily activities are classed as disabilities under the Equality Act 2010, requiring employers to make reasonable adjustments. In practice, this means ensuring that employees with food allergies can access workplace food safely — whether that's catered lunches, team events, or food provided in communal areas. It does not require you to eliminate all allergens from the workplace, but it does require you to ensure allergic employees are not excluded from reasonable participation in food-related workplace activities.
Practical Steps
Collect dietary requirement information during onboarding and before any catered event. Ensure that whoever organises catering understands the requirement to provide allergen information for all food served. Choose a caterer who can confirm their allergen management processes — ideally one operating from a controlled environment. Keep epinephrine auto-injectors (EpiPens) accessible in the workplace for employees who are prescribed them. Brief relevant staff on the location of emergency medication and on recognising anaphylaxis symptoms.
Beyond Compliance: Genuine Inclusion
The legal minimum is a floor, not a ceiling. An employee with a serious nut allergy who attends a team lunch and cannot eat safely — or who feels anxious throughout because allergen information isn't clear — is not genuinely included even if you've technically complied. Choosing a caterer like Vanda's Kitchen, whose completely nut-free kitchen and full halal certification eliminate the most common and serious risks as structural baseline, provides genuine inclusion rather than procedural compliance. When everyone can eat the same food with the same confidence, the inclusion message is real.
Why Vanda's Kitchen
Our kitchen is completely nut-free — not a nut-free option in a kitchen that handles nuts, but a kitchen where nuts are entirely absent. Combined with full halal certification throughout our entire operation and extensive gluten-free provision, we provide the structural allergen management that allows every guest to eat from the same menu with confidence.
Everything we serve is prepared fresh that day. Our products appear in Selfridges Food Hall — the same quality standard applies to every corporate delivery and catering order we produce. Individual Freedom Trays arrive clearly labelled with full allergen information, removing the anxiety that accompanies dining out for people managing dietary requirements.
For office deliveries, meeting room catering, and events across the City of London and central London, contact us through our website or visit our St Paul's shop in EC4. We work with clients on regular arrangements and one-off orders with equal care.
Vanda's Kitchen: The Employer's Practical Solution
Implementing a nut-free, halal-compliant catering policy for your London office is significantly simpler than it sounds when you work with Vanda's Kitchen. Our 100% nut-free kitchen, certified halal status, and full Natasha's Law labelling compliance address the three most common dietary safety requirements in one supply relationship. One caterer, one conversation, all requirements covered.
We can provide the documentation that HR and procurement teams need to satisfy due diligence requirements: our halal certification from the Halal Friendly List, our 5-star food hygiene certificate, our Natasha's Law compliance statement, and our allergen management protocols. For employers building a defensible catering policy, this documentation package removes the ambiguity that vague "allergy-friendly" claims from other caterers cannot.
For related guidance, read our allergy-friendly catering London guide and our post on Natasha's Law explained. WhatsApp us or send an enquiry to discuss your office allergen policy.
Safe, Inclusive Food From Vanda's Kitchen
For Londoners managing food allergies and intolerances, Vanda's Kitchen near St Paul's Cathedral EC4 provides a genuinely safe food environment in the heart of the City. Our kitchen is 100% nut-free — no peanuts or tree nuts enter our facility under any circumstances — and our food is certified halal by the independently verified Halal Friendly List. Every item is labelled with full allergen information covering all 14 mandatory UK allergens, in compliance with Natasha's Law.
Our 5-star food hygiene rating confirms that our food safety practices are independently assessed and verified. Our Selfridges Food Hall presence confirms that our food quality meets the standards of one of London's most demanding food retail environments. For people managing serious food allergies, this combination of safety and quality is rare in the London food market. Visit us in EC4, order corporate delivery via our team lunch page, or WhatsApp us to discuss your requirements. Read our allergy-friendly catering guide for more.
Why London Professionals Choose Vanda's Kitchen
Whether you are managing dietary requirements for a team, looking for a nutritious daily lunch, or sourcing catering for a corporate event, Vanda's Kitchen near St Paul's Cathedral EC4 provides a consistent answer. Our kitchen is 100% nut-free as a permanent standard — no exceptions, no special requests needed. We are independently certified halal through the Halal Friendly List. We hold a 5-star food hygiene rating and our products are stocked in Selfridges Food Hall.
Our food is freshly prepared daily from our EC4 kitchen, rooted in Filipino culinary tradition and designed to deliver both nutritional quality and genuine flavour. For corporate lunch delivery, team catering, and event food across London, we offer a complete solution with the allergen credentials, dietary certifications, and food quality that London's most demanding clients require. View our team lunch options, WhatsApp us, or send an enquiry — we respond the same day.