Seems like this would be very useful in a city that doesn't have an already corrupt restaurant inspection culture.
My thought was of Guido from the movie Risky Business: "never fuck with another man's livelihood."
DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code violations
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Re: DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code violations
#32someone bought a domain name before they knew what to do with it...
Re: DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code violations
#33A bunch of us decide to go out to eat. We look up retaurants on yelp, menupages etc and pick a place to go. When we get there, we check into donteat.at and we get notified of a bunch of health code violations, at which point we decide to find a diff place to eat. Wouldn't the user experience be better served by allowing ppl to enter a restaurant name into donteat.at from anywhere (like from their desktop after readin…
If it were an add-on that popped-up in your browser when you were on a restaurant's Yelp/other page, or visiting the restaurant's site...? Lots of issues there though.
Re: DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code violations
#34Hmm,
I am not in the least the crusading defender of restaurant owners, but this thing seems kind of unfair.
Should not a health violation that's bad enough mean the place has to be closed and anything else mean that the place is OK? If the health departments are "corrupt" and not shutting down places, why would we put credence in their inspections at all?
The whole approach seems like an exercise in interpreting data in a fashion in which it wasn't meant to be interpreted.
You could extract similar sorts of poor of quality markers from lawsuits filed against businesses or whatever.
Am I missing something?
Re: DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code violations
#35A bunch of us decide to go out to eat. We look up retaurants on yelp, menupages etc and pick a place to go. When we get there, we check into donteat.at and we get notified of a bunch of health code violations, at which point we decide to find a diff place to eat. Wouldn't the user experience be better served by allowing ppl to enter a restaurant name into donteat.at from anywhere (like from their desktop after readin…
I think the idea is that it's insurance more than a planning tool. Most restaurants in NYC are not on the cusp of being shut down for health violations, but if you do happen to go to one of them (won't happen often, but will happen), then you'll probably want to know.
Re: DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code violations
#36- waiter! an omelette and a pair of kind words here please!
gloomy unhappy waiter comes and puts the omelette on the table.
- waiter! and where are the kind words?
- okay. don't eat this omelette.
Re: DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code violations
#37This is either highly coincidental or a rip off of "Don't eat that!", based in PDX: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronpk/5049962228/
Pure coincidence. I've never seen that app before and can't find it on Google. Can you link it to me?
here: http://donteatit.heroku.com/
But dead link. It's the link in the seen picture at full rez.
Re: DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code violations
#38Actually eating in .at isn't too bad, it's just not very good for you. Neighboring .it is healthier and has more variety:-)
Re: DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code violations
#39Clever, but really, you should have checked how it would look when posted on Facebook.
Re: DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code violations
#40A bunch of us decide to go out to eat. We look up retaurants on yelp, menupages etc and pick a place to go. When we get there, we check into donteat.at and we get notified of a bunch of health code violations, at which point we decide to find a diff place to eat. Wouldn't the user experience be better served by allowing ppl to enter a restaurant name into donteat.at from anywhere (like from their desktop after readin…
You can already look these up easily from home on the restaurant inspection website[1].
But it's New York, so there's almost always another good restaurant nearby. This app should allow you to search google local or yelp to find one if the results it delivers aren't favorable.