How Eat Up settles "where do we eat?"

Four steps: where you are, what's nearby and open, who vetoes what, and a wheel for the rest. This page walks through the veto round — the part that ends the argument — and the other ways to decide.

The veto round, step by step

1. The table is dealt. Eat Up takes the best-ranked places right now — open ones first, then the moods you picked, then the closest — 8 of them for two people, two more for every extra person, up to 16 for six. Your Tonight filters (open now, cuisine, diet, takeaway) apply.
2. Pass the phone. The screen says whose turn it is. That person — alone, without seeing what anyone else chose — crosses out up to 2 places (✕) and stars up to 3 (★). Then they hand it on.
3. Anything anyone vetoed is out. One veto is enough: if you really don't want tacos, tacos are gone. With every veto used, at least four places always survive.
4. The survivors go on the wheel. Every survivor gets a slot; a place anybody starred gets a second slot, so it's twice as likely. One spin. That's dinner.
5. Compare, if you must. The Compare tab shows who vetoed and starred what, and the places everyone kept — useful for next time, or for settling who vetoed the sushi.

The round lasts for this browser tab only (session storage). Close the tab and it's gone; nothing about it ever leaves the phone.

The roll

Roll on the Tonight tab draws one place at random, but not evenly: an open place counts ×1.5 (unknown hours ×1, closed ×0.1), a place matching one of your moods ×2, and the odds fade with straight-line distance (they fall to about a third at half your search radius). The first roll of a search comes from the top few. Veto a pick and it goes to the Recycle Bin for the rest of the session; star one to keep it handy.

The wheel

The wheel spins whatever you type — two to twelve options, equal slices. It is also the veto round's final step, and it works without a location at all.

The bracket

The top 4, 8 or 16 places go head to head. First-round opponents share a cuisine group where possible (pizza against pizza, tacos against tacos), later rounds stay on-cuisine as long as they can, and the people deciding take turns picking. A coin flip settles a stalemate. Optional party mode lets the next person in line overrule a pick by spinning a penalty wheel — dares, or drinks for adults who choose it. Nobody who drinks drives.

What it knows, and what it doesn't

Everything comes from OpenStreetMap, the free map anyone can edit: names, kinds of place, cuisines, opening hours, diet and takeaway tags, addresses, phone numbers and websites where someone has mapped them. It has no ratings, reviews or prices, so Eat Up shows none. Opening hours are read literally, and "hours unknown" means the map doesn't say — never a guess. More on the data and its limits.

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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