What's for lunch

[ShowdOWN]

every day at work we ponder over what to eat for lunch, it usually takes about 1 a half hrs for us to decide. and by that point we really dont care what we eat because we are starving and its almost 3 oclock. does anyone have any idea of a program or even a creative way of deciding of what we want to eat. also, the reason behind this is that we have eaten everything in the area and no one wants to eat at the same place every but we like to take our lunches together. we have also tried dartboards and that was pretty useless. any insights people?


thanks.

 

[T2T III]

Just put lots of cards with restaurants in a hat. Each day, a different person will take their turn at picking out the place to eat at.

 

[KEV1N]

Hmm that would be a fun program to make. It could take into account what you've recently eaten and what you're "Not" in the mood for. Then you can narrow it down by geographic region.

Of course you'd need a reliable source of data for the places around you.

 

[Tremulant]

We've been thinking of writing a similar program here at work. It's not as important atm though, because our schedules are staggered and the only day we're both in the lab are Fridays. It still takes us all morning to figure out what's for lunch though.

 

[mchammer187]

you should go by the specials

monday half price burgers

wednesday 4.99 for a loaded plate of fajitas etc.

there should be stuff like this everywhere

and usually every day of the week except maybe friday

 

[iamme]

make a big roulette wheel. how fun would that be to spin the lunch-roulette wheel everyday

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: iamme
make a big roulette wheel. how fun would that be to spin the lunch-roulette wheel everyday

WINNAH. this beats the food program we wrote at work

 

[BMdoobieW]

I just had pizza.

 

[isasir]

Just ask ATOT daily. We'll gladly nef in your threads.

 

[Kelemvor]

Make a list of places you'd normally go and number them. Then get a die with the same number of sides as entries in the list. Then roll the die every day to decide. Or pretend it's D&D and get everyone a die and you all roll and see what number comes up the most.

 

[Qwest]

only here would someone say to pretend its D&D :roll:

 

[GigaCluster]

Condorcet voting.

 

[flot]

<sigh>

the sad thing is, not only has this been suggested at work (actually I think at two different jobs) but we had the similar brainstorm in college.

The problem is, once you do it.. you "randomly select" the place to eat.. and then someone immediately is like "what? burger king? no way, hit it again" and then you hit it again and someone else doesn't like what you chose, etc...

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: iamme
make a big roulette wheel. how fun would that be to spin the lunch-roulette wheel everyday

That would be awesome

 

[Chronoshock]

Originally posted by: flot
<sigh>

the sad thing is, not only has this been suggested at work (actually I think at two different jobs) but we had the similar brainstorm in college.

The problem is, once you do it.. you "randomly select" the place to eat.. and then someone immediately is like "what? burger king? no way, hit it again" and then you hit it again and someone else doesn't like what you chose, etc...

My solution: have the generator randomly create a listing of say 4-5 restaurants. Then each employee will pick one they want and one they don't want. The program will then weight the restaurants according to preferences (also taking into account who got their way recently) and randomly select a second time, using the weights for calculation. You can further tweak the program by maybe allowing a person to have a doubly weighted opinion once a week.