Damn, that sucks. Although sadly, it does seem pretty common in the States.
Now if you're wealthy enough to afford restaurant food all your life, then no worries? Otherwise, if I were you, I'd look to start making simple meals for yourself, stat. There are lots of helpful videos to get you started on that, and of course, lots of example meals from lovely communities like !cooking@lemmy.world and !homecooking@lemmy.world.
If you tell me what kind of food you like, I might be able to offer you some simple meal prep suggestions. Or better yet, throw that question out to either or both of those communities! I bet they'd love to help you.
Okay, in terms of this next part, I understand that everyone hates AI and LLM's and I'm right with y'all for the most part. But like I say, sometimes LLM's can be super-useful for polling a bunch of data and summarizing what it finds. So I started a process just now, and maybe the results will be of some use:
My combined FF ranking
I've weighted the evidence roughly in this order:
- Documented epidemiological/traceback evidence
- Whether the chain handled the implicated ingredients
- Whether its current menu exposes customers to the relevant ingredients
- Other current foodborne-illness issues
- Online consumer reports/discussion — useful for identifying patterns, but not treated as proof.
Best bets right now
- McDonald's
- Wendy's
- Burger King
- KFC
- Five Guys
- Culver's
- Chick-fil-A
Always keep in mind of course that using an LLM is like asking a knowledgeable, opinionated person for their thoughts, who can also make key mistakes and even hallucinate results. Which is why it's important to cross-check these results against multiple other searches. But again-- if there's a 'safest area of using LLM's,' IME it's in using them for stuff like this.
Full discussion here, in which GPT identifies key areas of concern:
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a825204-a804-83ea-80f4-261eb4efce97