ANT_OR_Lunch_Visits

🍽️ Lunch Tracker

A simple, collaborative repository to track where we go for lunch.

This repo helps us:

• Remember places we’ve already tried
• Avoid eating the same thing every day
• Share recommendations and notes
• Decide where to go next more easily

You can see a preview of the map here: https://nsushant.github.io/ANT_OR_Lunch_Visits/lunch_map.html Double click an image to view in full size.

Features:

• 🗺️ Interactive map with all lunch locations
• 🗳️ Vote for your favorite restaurants
• 🏆 View rankings based on community votes
• 📸 Photo galleries for each location

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📌 What This Repo Is For

We use this repository to log:

• Lunch locations (restaurants, food trucks, cafeterias, etc.)
• Dates visited
• Who went
• Quick notes (price, wait time, what was good, what wasn’t)

It’s intentionally lightweight and low-maintenance.

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📂 Repository Structure

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├── lunch_log.md      # Main log of lunch visits / reviews
├── places.md         # Master list of lunch spots visited before
├── wishlist.md       # Places we want to try but nobody has visited
├── lunch_map.html    # Interactive map of lunch locations
├── ranking.html      # Restaurant rankings based on votes
└── README.md         # You are here

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🗳️ Voting System

We’ve added an interactive voting system to help decide where to go!

How to Vote:

1. Open lunch_map.html in your browser
2. Enter your name to access the map
3. Click on any restaurant marker
4. Click the “🗳️ Vote” button
5. Give it a rank: 1, 2, or 3

Point System:

• Rank 1 = 3 points 🥇
• Rank 2 = 2 points 🥈
• Rank 3 = 1 point 🥉

Rules:

• Each rank can only be used once (you can vote for max 3 restaurants)
• Each person can only vote once per restaurant
• Your votes are saved in your browser
• View all rankings on the Rankings page

Managing Your Votes:

• Click “🗳️ My Votes” on the rankings page to see your current votes
• You can undo any vote if you change your mind
• After undoing, that rank becomes available again for another restaurant

Note: All votes are stored in votes.json and visible to everyone. Rankings update automatically!

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📍 Adding a New Recommendation

If you’d like to recommend a place you’ve been to.

1. Add it to places.md

2. Include:

   • Name
   • Location
   • Cuisine
   • Price range
   • Note
   • pics

Note 1: the price ranges are the following:

• $: > 10€
• $$: 10€ - 15€
• $$$: < 15€

Note 2: Give the exact location of the place (i.e., the address)

Note 3: The pics field is optional. If you do give it, add you images in a subfolder of \images and put the relative path to this foler in the field pics.◊

Example:

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- Name: Munji
- Location: Oude Koornmarkt 68, 2000 Antwerpen
- Cuisine: middle-eastern 
- Price range: $
- Note: Falafel place
- pics: images/munji
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📝 Detailing a Visit

This file stores metrics describing the experience after a visit. We use this data to decide the frequency of future recommendations for the visited place. If you’d like to detail your experience,

1. Open lunch_log.md
2. Add a new entry at the top of the file
3. Use the following format:

### YYYY-MM-DD — Restaurant Name
- **Location:** Area / Neighborhood
- **People:** @name1, @name2
- **Cost:** $ / $$ / $$$
- **Notes:** Short comments about the food, wait time, etc.
- **Rating out of 5:** 

Example:

### 2025-01-15 — Tasty Noodles
- **Location:** Downtown
- **People:** Alice, Bob
- **Cost:** $$
- **Notes:** Fast service, great noodles, limited seating.
- **Rating out of 5:** 4

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⭐ Wishlist

A list of places we’d like to try but no one has been to.

Add it to wishlist.md with:

• Name
• Location
• Why it’s interesting

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🤝 Contributing Guidelines

• Keep entries short and factual
• No need for perfect formatting — consistency > perfection
• Feel free to update old entries with better notes

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🧠 Philosophy

Tracking lunch is serious business.

But not that serious.

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📄 License

This repository is for internal / casual use. No license specified unless added later.

Enjoy lunch! 🥪🌮🍜