Many moons ago we were faced with a common problem, choosing a place to eat. I'm not sure who's idea it was, but someone suggested we needed a way to select a restaurant at random. So I wrote a little program to do just that. It was initially written to run on my cell phone, then later rewritten for the truckputer. Later, I added support for multiple cities and a second program to ease the creation of lists.
The funny thing is that after all of that work, the program was only used a couple of times.
I'm making the program available for download, along with the source code. Also included are the city files I used for testing. It's in Java, so you'll need to install the JRE if you don't already have it.
I've tested it quite a bit, but I'm sure there are still bugs to be found. Keep in mind that this most recent version was created for use on a small touch screen monitor.
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I remember talking about the
I remember talking about the idea of a random restaurant generator, but I don't know who came up with the actual idea.
I can distinctly remember using it the first time and everyone disagreeing with restaurant it picked. lol