Eat Up answers the most-asked question in any group chat with free public map data and zero cost per person: where you are, how far you'll go and who gets a veto → the places nearby that fit, a roll, a veto round, a wheel, a bracket and a coin. It is a decision tool, not a directory. This page explains where every piece of information comes from, how the ranking works, and what the program cannot know.
amenity = restaurant, fast_food, cafe, pub, bar, food_court, ice_cream or biergarten that has a name, within the distance you chose. The answer stays in the tab's memory for the session, so asking again costs the volunteers' servers nothing.Tonight lists every place in three bands — open now, then hours unknown, then closed (dimmed) — and within each band puts places matching one of your moods first, then the closest. Roll is a weighted random draw: open ×1.5 (unknown ×1, closed ×0.1), a mood match ×2, times an exponential fade with straight-line distance whose scale is half your search radius (at least 400 m). The same weight, scaled so the best place scores 100, seeds the bracket and deals the veto table. Details of the veto round, the wheel and the bracket are on how it works.
OpenStreetMap stores hours as text like Mo-Fr 11:00-22:00; Sa,Su 12:00-23:00. Eat Up reads the common forms — day ranges and lists (including ones that wrap, like Su-Th), several time ranges per day, times past midnight, 24/7, off and closed, month ranges such as Apr-Oct, single dates such as Dec 25, open-ended times such as 18:00+ — and says open until 22:00, opens 17:00 or closed. Anything it cannot read with certainty (sunrise-based hours, week numbers, free text) is shown as hours unknown, never guessed. Public and school holidays are unknown to it, so holiday rules are ignored. Times are your device's local time — right when you are near the place.
Distance is the straight line from where you are (rounded to about 10 m) to the place, so real routes are longer. Walking minutes assume 80 m a minute, driving 500 m a minute — hence "about". A search keeps the 400 nearest places.
OpenStreetMap has no ratings, reviews or prices, so Eat Up shows none and never claims one. Coverage is patchy: many places have no opening hours or cuisine tag, and a place that closed for good may still be on the map until someone edits it. Everything you see is only as good as the local mappers — if something is wrong, the Map data link on each place opens it on openstreetmap.org, where anyone can fix it for everyone.
Pages like "best tacos in <city>" would need ratings to be worth anything. Without them they would be thin lists copied from the map, so Eat Up doesn't publish them. The app answers the question for wherever you are, the moment you ask.
Eat Up is a program from Somebody Decide, a small software studio operated by RapidShift, LLC. Small free programs that settle the arguments friends have. Every program follows the same four rules: public data only, no accounts, nothing about you stored on a server, and the whole method written down on a page like this.
Corrections, questions and takedown requests: a public contact address is being set up and will appear here; this page is regenerated on every build. Wrong hours or a closed place? Fix it on OpenStreetMap and every map that uses it improves. See also Legal & privacy.
Eat Up is a free decision tool: where you are, how far you'll go and who gets a veto in; the places nearby that fit, a roll, a veto round, a wheel and a bracket out. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); no ratings or prices, because the map has none. Page updated 2026-09-23 · a Somebody Decide program. How it works · About the data · Legal & privacy · The wheel