Almost every place I've worked has had some version of a lunch decider or another. At one place, it was a rails app I wrote in 5 minutes, just to prove to my c

Almost every place I've worked has had some version of a lunch decider or another. At one place, it was a rails app I wrote in 5 minutes, just to prove to my coworker that it was faster to make than pulling names out of a hat. At another, it was a yelp scraper someone had written to find places near us. It happens everywhere. I think it's the natural result of any problem that takes a long time but seems pretty easy: a programmer will naturally try to automate it.