Food Wheel

The food wheel is a random picker for meals: it is already loaded with 24 dishes that most American towns can deliver or that a home cook can make on a weeknight, so the first spin settles the "what do you want to eat?" loop without anyone having to type a thing.

What is on the wheel

Twenty-four dishes rather than cuisines, because "Italian" still leaves you choosing between pizza and pasta. The list leans on what is easy to get: delivery staples (pizza, burgers, sushi, burritos), takeout from the cuisines most US cities have (pho, pad Thai, curry, gyros) and home-cooking defaults (pasta, chili, soup, mac and cheese). Every dish appears once, so each has the same 1 in 24 chance — about 4.17% — until you change the list.

Ways people use a food wheel

• Date night or family dinner: let the wheel break the deadlock instead of the person who cares least.
• Restaurant picker: clear the list and type the places near you or on your delivery app.
• Meal planning: switch on "Remove the winner" and spin seven times for a week of dinners with no repeats.
• Office lunch: share the wheel link in the team chat so everyone spins the same list.
• Using up the fridge: enter what you actually have and let the wheel pick tonight's base.

Tilting the odds toward favorites

There is no separate weights field: type a dish twice and it counts as two entries, three times as three, against one for every other dish. With "Pizza" on three lines out of 26, the result reports its real chance of 11.54%, not one over the number of sectors. To take something off the menu, delete its line — the wheel redraws as you type.

Your own list stays on this device

Edits are saved in this browser for this page only, so the food wheel and the plain wheel keep separate lists. "Restore the preset" brings back the 24 dishes at any time. Nothing is uploaded: a shared link carries the entries inside the link itself.