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Legal & privacy

Eat Up License Agreement. Please read the following carefully. It is short, it is in plain English, and unlike the ones you clicked through in 1995 you can actually finish it. By using wheredoweeattonight.com ("Eat Up", "the site") you agree to the terms below. "We" means Somebody Decide, a software studio operated by RapidShift, LLC, which makes and runs the site. If you do not agree, close the window — there is no Cancel button, but the X still works.

What Eat Up is

Eat Up is a free website that helps a group decide where to eat, using public map data from OpenStreetMap. It is made by Somebody Decide, a small software studio operated by RapidShift, LLC. It has no accounts. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any restaurant, the OpenStreetMap Foundation, komoot, Google, Apple or Microsoft. It shows no ratings or prices because none exist in the data.

Privacy: what happens with your data

Your location never reaches our servers
When you press Use my location, Eat Up first explains what will happen; only then does your browser ask your permission. If you allow it, the position is rounded to about 10 m and your browser sends it directly to OpenStreetMap's Overpass API (overpass-api.de, or the overpass.kumi.systems mirror when the main server is busy) to find the places nearby. It is never sent to wheredoweeattonight.com, never stored, and kept only in the page's memory until you close the tab or search again. The same is true of a place you type: your browser sends the text to Nominatim (nominatim.openstreetmap.org, run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation) or, if that is unavailable, to Photon (photon.komoot.io, run by komoot). Those services receive your IP address and your query like any website does; their policies apply — OpenStreetMap Foundation, komoot.
We store nothing about you
There are no accounts, no cookies and no user records. Our server never receives a location, a place you searched for, or the names you type.
In your browser
Kept in localStorage (until you clear site data): eu.prefs (the names of the people deciding, the distance and the mood chips you picked), eu.sound (sounds on or off), eu.party (party mode on or off), eu.wheel (which penalty wheel party mode uses (dares or drinks)), eu.max (whether the window is maximised), eu.msbest (your best time in the Mines program), eu.filtersOpen (on phones, whether the filter panel is open). Kept in sessionStorage (gone when you close the tab — vetoes last for the session only): eu.bin (places you vetoed on Tonight (the Recycle Bin)), eu.stars (places you starred), eu.hist (the places rolled so far), eu.round (the veto round: the table of places, the names, and each person's vetoes and stars). None of it ever leaves your device. The wheel page stores nothing at all; its share link carries the options inside the link.
Shared links
Send this place makes a link like /p/node/123?at=Tu19:00: the place's public OpenStreetMap id and your weekday and time (so the preview can say "open until …"), never your location. When the link is opened or previewed, our server asks Overpass for that one public place — its name, kind, cuisine, opening hours and brand, nothing else — and caches that for up to 24 hours; the preview picture is cached for up to 24 hours too. Nothing in those caches is about the person who shared or opened the link.
Usage counts
To learn which features people use we count events: the page path, an event name such as "roll", "veto round started" or "wheel spun", whether the browser is a phone, and the day. No IP address, user agent, cookie, location, place or name is stored with a count; counts cannot be linked to a person, and raw counts are folded into daily totals. Browsers that send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control are not counted at all.
Hosting and third parties
The site runs on Netlify, whose edge servers keep standard request logs (including IP addresses) for a short time under Netlify's privacy policy. The map links open OpenStreetMap, Google Maps or Apple Maps with the place's coordinates; once you follow one, that site's policy applies. A place's website link goes to that business. The optional Internet Radio program streams audio directly from Radio Paradise or SomaFM, independent listener-supported stations; opening it is your choice and their policies apply to the stream.
Your rights
Because nothing is stored about you on our side, there is nothing for us to export or delete; clearing this site's data in your browser removes everything listed above. If you are in the EU/UK: the only processing on our side is the anonymous event count described above and the short cache of public place data.
Children
Eat Up is not directed at children under 13 and knowingly collects nothing from them.

Terms of use

Eat Up is provided free, "as is" and without warranty of any kind. Map data can be wrong: a place may have closed, hours may be out of date, a cuisine may be missing. Check before you drive across town. Don't use the site to harass anyone, don't automate requests against it or through it against OpenStreetMap's services, and don't try to break it. We may change or discontinue any feature at any time. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for anything that happens as a result of using the site, including but not limited to the meal.

Party mode

Party mode adds a spin-the-wheel penalty when one person overrules another's bracket pick. The Drinks wheel is a joke for adults of legal drinking age who choose to turn it on; the app asks first, and the Dares wheel has no alcohol in it at all. Nothing on this site encourages you to drink: swap in water, know your limit, look after each other — and nobody who drinks drives. You are responsible for what you do at your own dinner.

Map data, search and attribution

Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Queries are answered by the public Overpass API instances. Search by Nominatim / OpenStreetMap, used under its usage policy (no more than one request a second, no search-as-you-type); fallback search by Photon (komoot). Eat Up shows no ratings or prices because none exist in the data, and it is not affiliated with any restaurant or map provider. Business names belong to their owners and are shown only to identify the places.

The 1995 look

Eat Up's appearance is an affectionate homage to the desktop computers of 1995. It is a parody and a fan tribute, not a Microsoft product: every window, bevel, icon and cursor was drawn from scratch for this site, every sound is synthesized in your browser rather than copied from any operating system, and no Microsoft code, fonts, images or audio are included. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. Radio Paradise and SomaFM are independent, listener-supported radio stations with no connection to this site; if you enjoy them, support them directly.

Advertising and affiliate links

Eat Up carries no advertising and no affiliate links, and no place pays to be ranked. If that ever changes, this section will say so first.

Contact, corrections and takedowns

Privacy questions and rights-holder notices: a public contact address is being set up and will appear here; this page is regenerated on every build. Map corrections belong on OpenStreetMap, where they fix every map at once.

Changes

This page is regenerated with every build; the "page updated" date at the bottom is when its text last changed. Material changes to how data is handled will be noted here.

This product is licensed to: a group of friends who could not decide. Eat Up 95 — a Somebody Decide program — about the data · back to the app.

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