Lazy Susan is takeout roulette. Tell it who you're feeding and what you're in the mood for, and it spins up one place near you that's open, with a suggested order. It's a side project for ending the “I don't know, what do you want?” conversation.

When the receipt prints, an AI model searches the web for this restaurant's real menu (its own site, a menu page or a listing for that location) and picks dishes from it for your party, diet and spice preference.

Every dish it suggests is checked against the text it actually read, and anything that wasn't there is dropped. If it can't find the menu, the receipt says so and links to their menu or phone instead of guessing. Menus change and AI can still misread one, so treat it as a strong suggestion.

Takeout first. Places the map marks as takeout (fast food, takeaway, drive-through or delivery) come up far more often, and sit-down signals like reservations make a place much less likely. Most restaurants don't say either way. The receipt tells you whether takeout is confirmed, by the map or by their listing online.

Make it spicy favours cuisines known for heat (Thai, Korean, Indian, Sichuan-style Chinese, Ethiopian, Caribbean) and asks for spicy dishes.

“Open” comes from opening hours on OpenStreetMap. Places with no hours show “Hours unknown. Call ahead.” Places that close within 30 minutes of your order time are skipped.

Always tell the restaurant about allergies and check with them before you order. Lazy Susan doesn't know ingredients, recipes or how a kitchen handles cross-contact. “Vegetarian” and “vegan” suggestions describe how a dish is usually made, and many kitchens use fish sauce, meat stock or lard.

Gluten-free and halal filters only show places the map marks that way, which is few of them. Even then, confirm with the restaurant.

To find restaurants, your location goes to Lazy Susan's server, which looks up the area on OpenStreetMap. Lazy Susan doesn't save it. Like any website, the hosting provider keeps short-lived request logs, which include the address you requested and your IP. Shared links don't include your location.

Looking up the menu sends the restaurant's name, address and website plus your party size, spice preference and diet to an AI model with web search. It doesn't send your location. Your punch card and saved places stay in this browser.

• Restaurants, cuisines, hours and contact details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License. If a place is wrong, you can fix it there.
• Place search: Nominatim, run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
• AI orders: an AI model via Vercel AI Gateway, with Perplexity web search.