“The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases.
For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The last one is the most difficult one since it needs to be answered every day and often you don't want to have the same answer every day.
It is especially difficult if you are in a group of people trying to decide together where to have lunch and everyone has their own preferences.
As it seems to be fashionable nowadays to solve life's problems with apps, here is one to solve this particular problem (though I suppose it would be possible to use this to solve also any other issue where a group of people need to make some common decision).
Everyone gets to list their preferences and this will magically(*) pick the one that is most fair for everyone.
(*) Actually it is using one of several supported election methods. The method can be changed from settings.
- Pick your favorite option by clicking available choices in order of preference
- If your favorite is among availabe choices, you can add manually
- You can keep adding and changing your list until you are happy with and press "Cast vote"
- Then others will make their own lists and cast their votes
- After everyone has casted their vote, they are counted and winner is declared (or winners in case of tie and there is no tie-breaker)