Somebody asks this at almost every event, and it is almost never idle curiosity. They are asking on behalf of one specific person — a coeliac sister-in-law, a kid with a dairy allergy, a vegan cousin who has resigned themselves to not eating.
So here is the straight answer.
DOLE SOFT SERVE is a fruit-based mix rather than a dairy one. It is vegan, dairy free, gluten free and lactose free, with no cholesterol. That is not a marketing claim we invented — Dole publishes the full product information for every flavor, and we will happily send you the sheet for whichever flavors you pick so you can check it yourself against whatever you need to check it against.
The usual way an event handles dietary restrictions is a separate plate. Something is produced from the kitchen for the one guest, it arrives late, it is visibly not what everyone else is having, and the whole point of dessert — that it is a treat, and a shared one — quietly evaporates.
A Dole Soft Serve bar inverts that. The default dessert is the one the restricted guest can eat. Nobody is handed a special plate, nobody has to ask, and the person who normally sits out is in the same line as everybody else. In our experience that lands harder with the family than anything else on the table.
Pineapple, the famous one. Then raspberry, strawberry, mango, orange, peach, pomegranate, cherry, lemon, lime and watermelon. We have written about how they pair if you are choosing.
We also run vanilla and chocolate ice cream, which are dairy. They live in their own machines with their own barrels — but if you have a guest with a severe allergy rather than an intolerance, tell us when you book. There is a difference between “would rather avoid dairy” and “carries an EpiPen”, and we would rather plan around the second one properly than reassure you casually.
Tell us and we will set up so the dairy-free machine is handled separately, and we will tell you exactly what we are doing rather than leaving you to hope.
“The fruit flavors are dairy free, gluten free and vegan. The vanilla and chocolate are not.” That sentence, in your group chat or on a small card by the machine, does most of the work.
Tell us your date and what you are working around and we will take it from there.
