Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Mahomes (Instagram)
In 2023, she helped launch a GivingTuesday fundraising match campaign with FARE, the Food Allergy Research and Education organization, raising more than $200,000 for food allergy programs. The following year, she and Patrick Mahomes’ 15 and the Mahomies Foundation formalised its commitment by partnering with FARE to create 15 and FARE, an initiative designed to make dining out, community food access, and everyday life safer for people living with food allergies. Joe’s KC has become the first Kansas City area restaurant recognised under the 15 and FARE program, with all of its locations receiving the designation, according to KCTV5. In materials shared by FARE, she described food allergy as a life threatening disease that requires constant attention, noting that it affects 33 million Americans, including her own family. During GivingTuesday in 2023, Brittany Mahomes and OWYN, a brand known for protein shakes free of the top nine allergens, launched a fundraising match campaign for FARE. The campaign raised more than $200,000, and FARE later honoured Brittany with its FARE Champion Award at the 15 and the Mahomies Foundation Gala in Kansas City. The partnership announced in November 2024 took that fundraising momentum and turned it into a structured community program. 15 and FARE brings FARE Neighborhoods and FARE’s Food Allergy Academy training to the Kansas City area. Food allergy (Representative image) Becoming a 15 and FARE Restaurant Partner is not a symbolic endorsement. Participating restaurants must train 90 percent or more of their food service staff, conduct monthly on site audits for three consecutive months, create a written food allergy management policy if they do not already have one, and demonstrate allergen transparency on their menus, according to FARE.
Recognition is valid for one year, which means restaurants must maintain their standards rather than treat approval as a one time achievement.
Customers can look for a “15 and FARE approved” sign at the restaurant, a signal that staff have completed extensive training and that the kitchen follows specific procedures to reduce the risk of accidental allergen exposure. FARE CEO Sung Poblete said at the time that Brittany’s willingness to share her family’s story had inspired thousands of food allergy patients and their families to keep fighting. Families dining out are encouraged to look for the “15 and FARE Restaurant Partner” logo as an indication that the business has met the program’s requirements.
Brittany Mahomes has spent years turning her family’s personal experience with food allergies into practical support for other families, and that work is now producing a visible change in Kansas City restaurants. That initiative has now reached an important milestone. For families who often approach restaurant menus with anxiety, the recognition represents more than a plaque on a door. It is an attempt to make a routine meal feel safer and more predictable. Read on for more details about it here: The Mahomes family’s involvement is deeply personal. Brittany and Patrick Mahomes have two children with severe peanut allergies, and Brittany has spoken openly about the constant vigilance that food allergy families carry with them. Her experience as a parent navigating emergency room visits, daily precautions, and the fear of an unexpected reaction has become central to the public face of the initiative. The goal is not simply to raise awareness, but to equip restaurants, food banks, pantries, school staff, and community health workers with the knowledge and systems needed to respond appropriately when someone has a food allergy. The program is free for restaurants in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. FARE provides training and resources to businesses of all sizes, removing a major barrier for smaller restaurants that may want to improve allergen safety but lack the internal expertise or budget to build a program from scratch.
