Such a piss off for the restaurant industry.
If you don't like tomatoes, there's definitely nothing wrong with that, we'll make sure you don't get a tomato. Easy peasy. However, if you say you're allergic to tomatoes, now someone has to make sure that every single bit of your dish has never touched a tomato at all. That means thoroughly re-washing your hands. Getting new ingredients, rather than using the ones that are ready. That means, say, for a burger. Grabbing a fresh bun from the proofer in the back, because the ones up front may have sat next to a tomato for a second. Getting, washing and cutting fresh lettuce from a brand new case that's never been opened before. Getting a pickle from a container that's never been opened. etc, etc for every ingredient. This takes a lot of time, meaning that employee can't be working on other things, making every dish in the kitchen come out slower. This is creating a hatred for people with allergies, because now it's "Damn, another allergy, now I have to go do all this extra crap for ####s sake"
If it's an actual allergy then by all means. But if you simply don't like tomato, just say so. You still won't get a tomato but you didn't waste everyone's time
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