Most of us remember the restaurant and forget the order. A month later you are back at the same table trying to recall whether it was the green curry or the red one that you loved. EatOutLog is built for that moment. You log each dish you order, rate it, and the next time you are deciding what to get, your own notes are there, along with what other diners thought of the same plate.
1. Log a visit
A visit is one trip to one restaurant on one day. In the app, tap Log a visit, search for the restaurant (suggestions come from Google Maps, so the name and address fill in for you), and check the date. You can add a photo of the menu, which shows on the restaurant's page for other diners, or a photo of the receipt, which only you can see.
You can also note which meal it was and the occasion, such as date night, family, work or a solo lunch. Restaurants only ever see totals of those answers, never what one person picked.
2. Add what you ordered
Each dish gets a name, an optional price and up to ten photos. If the restaurant has its menu on EatOutLog, you can pick the dish straight from the menu. Then rate it:
- Taste, from half a star to five stars.
- Value, appearance and texture, if you want to go further.
- Cooked correctly and would reorder, two quick yes or no answers.
- Notes in your own words, and tags such as the course, the cuisine or dietary labels.
Only the name is required, so you can log a dish in a few seconds at the table and fill in the rest later. Tasting menus and buffets have their own formats, so a twelve-course meal counts as one meal rather than twelve separate ratings. How ratings work explains each score.
3. Look back at your log
My Log keeps every visit and dish, newest first, with your stats: how many restaurants and dishes you have logged, your average ratings and your goals toward the next badge. Search your own history when you are standing outside a place you have not been to in a year.
4. Find your next meal
Discover shows restaurants trending near you and, once you have logged five restaurants, personal picks: places and dishes chosen from what you rate highly, the tags you like, and the places people you follow loved. Places you have already been or saved are left out, so the list stays new.
Search finds restaurants by name or type, and dishes by name or tag, near you or in any city. Want to go is a list of places you have saved for later, sorted by distance or by when you saved them.
5. Get to know your own taste
After a few dishes, EatOutLog builds a Taste Profile: the cuisines you reach for, how you eat, your usual price range, your favorite places and how your ratings compare with everyone else's. It is private unless you choose to make it visible, and you can share a picture of it with friends either way.
6. Follow people whose taste you trust
Follow friends, or the people Discover suggests because their taste is close to yours. Their dishes show up in your Home feed, and you can like and comment on them. If someone is bothering you, block them and each of you stops seeing the other's dishes.
7. Earn badges along the way
Badges are earned automatically from what you log: your first visit, fifteen taco dishes, twelve bowls of ramen, a streak of places you would go back to, a run of restaurants in one city. Travel badges need the visit to be logged near the restaurant, so they reflect trips you actually took. Once you earn a badge, it is yours to keep.
What is public and what stays private
The dishes you post, with their ratings, notes and photos, are public so other diners can learn from them. Your email address, birth date, receipt photos and the location saved with a visit stay private. Your Taste Profile is private by default. You can hide your check-ins from your followers in Settings, and you can download or delete your data at any time from the Data Request page.
Using the website
The website at app.capypine.com uses the same account as the app. Signed in, you can browse Home, Discover and Search, read your full log and stats, and view restaurants, dishes and profiles. New visits and dishes are logged in the app, and they appear on the website right away.
For restaurants
Every dish a diner logs also tells a restaurant how its menu is landing. Owners and managers can claim their restaurant for free and see their ratings dish by dish. See For restaurants for what is included.
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