Bistrola.com - Decides Where the Group Will Eat

Bistrola is an innovative web-based tool that eliminates the hours of arguing when you and your friends are trying to decide on a place to go out and eat. Simply sign up and then the next time you want to get together with your friends, set up an invitation describing what it is for along with a proposed day and time, and an invite will be sent to your friends’ email accounts. Next, each person, including you, fills out the desired area that they’d like to eat in, the type of cuisines, and price range. Beside each of these selections you’ll find a sliding bar that you move from one side to the other depending on how important each of these criteria is to you. Bistrola then compiles the choices you’ve made and generates a list of restaurants to suit them. Simply pick the restaurant that’s most suitable as deemed by your friends’ input and bingo!

“Bistrola.The idea is simple: have everyone in the meeting group choose his own preferences from restaurant type, price range and area and have the opportunity to set importance weight to each of these. From this point on we let a clever (and objective) algorithm provide the optimal solution based on our requests. Not only this saved us the hassle, but we also found new places to get-together and really, everyone lived happily ever after.”

This is a practical tool that makes invites democratic while at the same time allowing you to avoid the hours of discussion which often occur when decisions are made democratically. This should become a very popular tool, especially considering that it doesn’t seem to have any direct competition.

The examples on the site are for the NYC area and it is unclear as to where this service is available. Also, have they considered adding a feature that would allow you to settle on a day and time with your friends?