Wheel of Food

Post by **Sylvus** » February 26, 2007, 3:38 pm

Quite possibly the greatest, most useful web page that has ever been created. You can leave your query as "lunch" or put in specific things like "steak" or "sandwich". Give it a whirl. Get it?

http://www.coverpop.com/wheeloflunch/

laneela · Post by **laneela** » February 27, 2007, 12:01 am

It's faulty. Everyone who's anyone and happens to be In The Know knows that when you feel like a burger and you happen to live in my area, the only place to go is Le Tub and it wasn't even on the wheel.

Tyek · Post by **Tyek** » February 27, 2007, 1:06 am

It told me to go to Denny's so it obviously hates me. Stupid wheel.

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » February 27, 2007, 1:30 am

Mmm, I got Stanford's - Yumalicious!

redeemed · Post by **redeemed** » February 27, 2007, 1:53 am

"do not taunt the wheel. the wheel knows where you live."

rhyae · Post by **rhyae** » February 27, 2007, 10:31 am

"SKIP LUNCH"

Post by **Sylvus** » February 27, 2007, 10:36 am

Just spin it again if you don't like the first one it gave you. I still think it's great!

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » February 27, 2007, 10:59 am

I don't like the selection of restaurants. It "misses" most of the small family-run places in my area that I find better than the large chains on the wheel.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » February 27, 2007, 11:50 am

I agree. Plus even if you live in an area with lots of restaurants you get selections from 15 miles away. I live downtown.. 82nd street is a long way to go for lunch!

I also can't get the hang of how to spin it properly other than by reloading the page.

Post by **Sylvus** » February 27, 2007, 12:02 pm

Just click on one of the handles and drag it to spin. Looks like it might have to be at a dead stop.

You need to blame Yahoo if it doesn't do your local area restaurants right, works pretty good for me. Or refine your search down from just "lunch" to a more specific category. Can put "bar" in, or I even typed in the name of a small town inside of one of the zip codes I tried and that worked.

And my main reason for this reply is that I went to Yahoo Local, just to see why they aren't giving you guys good restaurant selections, and found these reviews that made me laugh.

Erin J, re: Olive Garden wrote: Wonderful!

This is one of the few restaurants that I think deserves a 5 star rating. I love everything about it. It's a great place to take the kids, and it's also very cozy and romantic. The food is amazing, the prices are totally reasonable, and the service is almost always great. I go to Olive Garden about once a week, (I love the soup, salad and breadsticks) and the only time I ever had a bad experience was when a waitress said something extremely cruel to me. My husband told the manager who didn't seem to take it very seriously, but I didn't see her again that day. In fact, I haven't seen that waitress since then and I've been there many times. They really seem to value their customers.

Erin J, re: Applebees wrote: Pretty good

I love Applebee's, I go there all the time. They have a lot of variety, and they are very child-friendly. I love their food and their service is pretty good. I would say I get good service about 3 times out of 5. If you get stuck with really bad service though, the manager will usually try to compensate.

Seriously?? Who writes a restaurant review for Applebees and Olive Garden?

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » February 27, 2007, 12:14 pm

I tried dragging the handles. Doesnt seem to work for me. It stops moving as soon as I let go!

I know a lot of people make fun of Olive Garden. It's nothing special but I've really only ever had one bad experience there as far as service goes.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » February 27, 2007, 12:56 pm

It lists a fair amount of small places for my area, including Maggies (my favorite place to get thin crust pizza).

Olive Garden is crap, btw. It could be because I am sicilian and have been eating traditional italian foods my whole life. I assure you that if I any of you tried my grandma's spaghetti you would rate it above almost every place you have ever eaten.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » February 27, 2007, 12:58 pm

Sylvus wrote:You need to blame Yahoo if it doesn't do your local area restaurants right, works pretty good for me. Or refine your search down from just "lunch" to a more specific category. Can put "bar" in, or I even typed in the name of a small town inside of one of the zip codes I tried and that worked.

This helped. I was able to get more of the places my girlfriend and I go by narrowing it down to the type of food rather than the meal.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 27, 2007, 1:17 pm

I put mexican in and got 8/10 ratio of Chipotle's to everything else! Those places are like Mcdonalds

Truant · Post by **Truant** » February 27, 2007, 1:24 pm

Zamtuk wrote:I put mexican in and got 8/10 ratio of Chipotle's to everything else! Those places are like Mcdonalds

Best I remember Chipotle is owned by McDonalds. Ironic simile!

(I hope I remember that right ><)

Post by **Sylvus** » February 27, 2007, 1:26 pm

I've never even seen a Chipotle. Well, except for when I was in Columbus, but I try to repress those memories.

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » February 27, 2007, 1:39 pm

Truant wrote:
Zamtuk wrote:I put mexican in and got 8/10 ratio of Chipotle's to everything else! Those places are like Mcdonalds
Best I remember Chipotle is owned by McDonalds. Ironic simile!

(I hope I remember that right ><)

I dont think that is true anymore,

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070124/cgw019a.html?.v=1

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 27, 2007, 1:53 pm

Sylvus wrote:I've never even seen a Chipotle. Well, except for when I was in Columbus, but I try to repress those memories.

Yeah, nothing but heartbreak in Columbus.

Post by **Sylvus** » February 27, 2007, 1:55 pm

Oh, it's not the score of the games. It's the cursing, the vomiting in trash cans, the racial slurs against non-hillbillies... that's what I'm trying to block out.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 27, 2007, 1:59 pm

If you've never puked in a trash can while calling someone a fucking shine, I don't want to know you.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » February 27, 2007, 6:14 pm

Cartalas wrote:
Truant wrote:
Zamtuk wrote:I put mexican in and got 8/10 ratio of Chipotle's to everything else! Those places are like Mcdonalds
Best I remember Chipotle is owned by McDonalds. Ironic simile!

(I hope I remember that right ><)
I dont think that is true anymore,

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070124/cgw019a.html?.v=1

Ahh, so they sold their interest sometime last year. Thanks for the info.