Dine-O-Matic
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Drink | $0.99 | The Iconfactory | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Dine-O-Matic for iPhone selects a place to eat when you just can’t make up your mind. Does your family have a hard time deciding where to head for dinner? Your co-workers want to go one place for lunch, but you want to go some place else? Take the pressure off. Give Dine-O-Matic a spin and let the food fates decide! Convenient restaurant details make it easy to spice up your night with a reservation or chill with a delivery order. Not sure you’re up for Dine-O-Matic’s pick? Spin again or just spin for fun to see the retro neon signs flash by and hear the cool sound effects.
• Randomly picks from your favorite eateries
• Quickly add your favorites with one tap on the map
• Adjust cost selector to fit what’s in your wallet
• Get expanded restaurant details
• Call the restaurant from within the app
• Maps integration gets you there from here
Who doesn’t like a good spinner, neon graphics and one less decision to make?
Reviews
Waste of time
bmarie47
The idea behind "dinner/restaurant selector/spinner apps" is to find a restaurant at random. With this app, you have to add each restaurant to the menu of selections. A prior knowledge of restaurants is needed (or find pins on the map.) If you are local, this is annoying. If you happen to be traveling, this app will not help you find a place to eat in an unfamiliar town.
Great idea. Needs work.
Miz_Snoopy
VERY limited restaurant selection. Mostly old data, like places that are old, closed, or crappy.
Love it!
nb8019
My wife and I go on trips all the time and NEVER have any idea where to eat. This is the perfect solution for us, and the app sports a beautiful UI. Another job well done Iconfactory!
Meh....
Dealer9
Where's the Yelp integration? This is useless if you have to load the database before you can use it!
Not easy to use
Arch357
Warning - you have to enter all restaurants one at a time. There's nothing automatic about it. I thought it would randomly suggest something near you. Nope. It just shows pins on a map.
Perfect
LadyMisanthrope
Exactly what *I* want! This app lets me save all my favorite places, and the map displays all the places close by if I want to explore new places to eat. Many other diner apps just blindly list everything in a category. This app is personal; about MY favorites! And it's ideal for traveling too! It saves what I like in other areas, so I can easily return to that great little diner outside Philly next time I'm there. Simple, clear design...and the retro graphics are amazing. LOVE this app...it's perfect.
No way !! Not a time saver !!
Cyberghost
As previously mentioned, you have to manually input all your favorite restaurants. If you want to have a Resturant show up, you have to enter it. Sounds ridiculous right, if you are traveling outside your home area, again you have to input each Resturant in, one by one. How am I supposed to know the Restaurants in a area I am traveling too? I have to go online or grab the yellow pages (oh yea, forget about the yellow pages) and enter restaurants in the area I am traveling too for perhaps only staying one night and might not visit again. What if I am traveling to an area once, put all that data in, building the database for one overnight stay? to much work to build a database that I might only visit once?? I didn't need to spend 99 cents on a fancy looking excel spreadsheet
If you have half a brain, do not purchase this app...!
cymod
I should have listened to Mr. Guttman! You have to do all the work for this app. What is the point of entering all the restaurants yourself, only to have this app regurgitate the same stuff you input and offer nothing new? A total waste of a buck the way it is now!!
Useful app, but obnoxious sounds
pferro
The ability to track selected favorite places is just what I want, and the lookup feature seems to work well -- however, the app makes obnoxious, overly-loud sounds which can't be disabled.
