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http://providefoodfor.us/restaurants
It's on Bitbucket and I need to open-source it at some point. Built with Meteor. It was my "oh let's try this shiny new framework" project.
I released an app recently. http://lunch-picker.com - Uses HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript (no server side code) - Material Design - Allows users to enter places where they normaly eat to select from
I'm from Tel Aviv, and here we use a website (that's also a payed-for by the company credit card) to order our lunches. Anyway they don't have an API, but we sniffed their AJAX stuff a bit and added some scripts to our Hubot that allow us to use Hipchat to order and get recommendations (including an I'm Feeling Lucky mode). We have company hackathons 3-4 times a year, and almost every hackathon had one project dedica…
(just add an event for each meal. You can add your own places and menus as needed)
This seems like a problem that doesn't require such an over-engineered solution. But I suppose over-engineering social arrangements is the underlying proposition of many Silicon Valley ventures...
This sounds like a uniquely American thing to me. I've never heard of this concept anywhere except California. Everywhere I've worked on-site, if people wanted to eat together they just did that weird thing people do and talk to one another .
To seed we it, picked a list of places and trimmed any that were vetoed by even a single person. Then with the remainder everybody got a a couple votes to cast for their favorites from the list. Then we made an actual physical Wheel of Fortune style wheel but with restaurants, each choice appearing as many times as it had been voted up in the seed list. It had about forty slots with the favorites appearing multiple times.
After making that, it was super fun to pick our lunch spot everyday by spinning this big wheel. It had the little plink plink spikes that the pointer brushed past and everything. Whoever had done a good deed that day got to be the "contestant", vying for our lunch fortunes.
Man, a novelty store should start selling customizable versions of these for offices...
We're from Bristol, UK and do lunches for everybody (read more: http://simpleweb.co.uk/2013/why-we-feed-our-staff/). We started working on an app for this but this was dropped in favour of simplicity and just do it through google forms.
Here is an example form -> http://imgur.com/LgC2l79