A Restaurant Decision-Maker

Or the opposite: you go in planning to eat cheaply or healthily, only to stuff yourself and spend the budget of a small island nation on oysters and Champagne.

My idea is a mobile app that can photograph a menu and help you choose dishes based on the goals you have set in Streaklane.

Before heading to a restaurant, or before you open the menu, the app asks what you want from the evening: Are you on a diet? In the mood for fish or meat? What kind of restaurant are you visiting? Then you take a photo of the menu, unless the AI agent has already found it online, and wait. The agent gathers reviews and recommendations, accounts for your fasting rules or diet, recalls your preferences and reactions to past visits, and suggests an order. It calculates the cost, remembers your choice, and asks what you thought after dinner, carefully saving the answer in its knowledge base to improve future suggestions.

To keep you out of a filter bubble, the app occasionally recommends something new when you are feeling adventurous. Eventually, you become your own restaurant critic, award your own “Michelin stars,” and share them with others. And a bad experience gets added to your Never Again list so you do not repeat it, and the app factors it into future recommendations.