What's on the restaurant picker wheel
The wheel comes loaded with 12 broad cuisine categories that cover most of what a group will realistically agree on. Each entry represents a style of food rather than a specific place, so the result narrows the decision without locking anyone into a single spot. Spin lands on Korean? Go find the Korean BBQ nearby. Lands on Local Diner? That's the neighbourhood's call.
The full default list: Italian, Chinese, Mexican, Japanese, Indian, Thai, American, Greek, French, Korean, Mediterranean, and Local Diner.
Swap in your actual options
The default cuisines are a starting point. If your group has already ruled out French and there's a great Ethiopian place down the road, edit the list before you spin. Delete any entry with the X next to it, type a new one into the text field, and press Enter. You can also paste a newline-separated list of restaurant names directly if you want to spin between specific places rather than cuisine types — useful when a group chat has already produced five candidates and nobody can pick.
If one restaurant is everyone's favourite fallback, give it a higher weight in the entry row and it'll take up a larger slice of the wheel. A place nobody's keen on can be hidden with the eye-toggle so it stays in the list but sits out the spin.
Not sure what to add? Hit the Ideas button and the wheel will suggest additional cuisine categories or restaurant types based on what's already in your list.
Settling the group-dinner debate
The classic problem isn't that nobody has preferences — it's that everyone vetoes each other's preferences until the decision collapses. Spinning externalises the choice: the wheel picked it, not the loudest person at the table. That dynamic works whether you're deciding with a partner on a Tuesday night or sorting out where twelve colleagues go for a team lunch.
For bigger groups, the Remove Winner toggle is handy. Turn it on and each spin removes the result from the pool. Spin twice to get a first choice and a backup without any cuisine appearing twice. Check the Food hub if you want wheels for other food decisions beyond where to eat.
Running a bracket-style elimination
One spin isn't always enough for a group with strong opinions. A quick bracket works well: start with all 12 cuisines, spin twice to get two results, then ask the group which of those two they'd prefer. Delete the loser, spin again, repeat. It feels more democratic because everyone gets input, but the random draw keeps it from turning into a full debate. The wheel generator lets you build a completely custom list from scratch if you want to run a more structured elimination across separate wheels.