Restaurant Roulette!! User Reviews

Turbolaser LLC

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Many things to love

I was searching for something like this and was happy to find such a great app. I use it for meal planning for the week. To remove ads is $0.99 which I thought was a great price. Happy to pay. I have a couple of feature requests: can you add more filters for things like delivery, outdoor seating, groups, and food for kids? These usually available in Yelp. Also - major bonus points if the saved list can be tied to my collections lists in Yelp. I build out a lot of lists in there like “Places to try” or “Favorites” or “with guests” and being able to roulette those lists is my big hope. Perhaps we can just enter URL to a list?

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Superjac

4 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Superjac, Thanks for the suggestions! We appreciate your expertise with Yelp & we’ll definitely look into importing collections - we agree that would be a seriously awesome feature. We’ll also take a look at the other filter options you mentioned, it seems like Yelp should allow us to filter by those if they have that data. Thanks again & happy roulette spinning 🎲

was cool for literally one second

I used it once and ever since then it will not load restaurants or work period. Very disappointed

GibaultFan!

4 years ago

Shows non-food stuff

I can’t eat cigars and vape. Won’t let me filter them out.

Rich Reviews Crap

4 years ago

Not enough restaurants

App worked like it said but it doesn’t put most chain restaurants like McDonald’s or Taco Bell. Was going to use this when my wife won’t make up her mind on where to eat but without the main fast food chains I don’t really see a point to this.

Jake16412

4 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your review! The app uses Yelp's search system to find restaurants, so we unfortunately don't have a lot of control over what search results they give back. We've seen a few things play into the results: 1. There is a 50 result limit, so we definitely don't get back every restaurant in the area. 2. Yelp sends back the highest rated places first - so the top 50 rated places are the only ones you'll receive. 3. Restaurants aren't always indexed under the right price/food type/open hours. To compensate for these, we've added the feature to search & add your own restaurants to the list just in case they don't show up in search. Hope this helps!

Honest opinion

I am sad to leave this review... but this application provided me with no help what so ever in choosing a restaurant which appealed to my certain needs. The idea which brought to light this revolutionary app sadly failed.
I have high hopes that my review will change the future of this app.
Ps it would help if it actually showed restaurants in my area... or at all.

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Novetto

4 years ago

Does not show all the restaurants

Confused why many restaurants don’t show up.

FSA091275

4 years ago

Response from developer

This App Saved My Marriage

The app design is incredible. Highly recommend.

27!37!:782!!:

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the positive & succinct review!

Worthless.

I wanted to try and discover one new place to eat, and somehow in a 20 mile radius where there’s at least 200 restaurants it gives me 22 results. None of which are a single place I’ve heard of. Why are the normal chains not popping up in this too? Out of the normal 15-20 places we frequent (Texas Roadhouse, Olive Garden, tucanos, Denny’s, ihop, Buffalo Wild Wings, red Robin) none of them appeared in the search even though they should. I expected to see all of those normal results PLUS new discoveries. Instead you suggested coffee shacks and hole in the walls, with nothing else included. If I wanted to make a list of all the restaurants in the area myself I could do that without this app. I don’t usually leave reviews but just to save you the download, this app is weak af.

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FavaronJ

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your review FavaronJ. We use Yelp to search for restaurants and it’s historically given pretty good results. Could you let us know where you were searching so we can take a look at the problem? Just send an email to support@turbolaser.dev. It’s also possible that you had the “open now” switch turned on & did your search outside normal business hours, which is why a lot of the expected restaurants wouldn’t show up. The food category filters may also have filtered out the restaurants - sometimes Yelp can be a little funny that way. Thanks again for the feedback!

Nope

Works but is really ugly to look at :/

abcdefgafsgshh

5 years ago

Response from developer

We appreciate your honesty! We've been planning a redesign of the home tab that we think everyone will like a lot more.

Just for the ads

This app not only allows you the maximum number of restaurants around you to only 50. The “roulette” simulation doesn’t work because I got the same restaurant back to back to back. Probably just some people who made this app to be bought by yelp and then to live on their lives as partial millionaires in a condo in La. sad. App could be so much better

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YaFavWhiteKis

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hey there, we appreciate the feedback. Unfortunately Yelp limits us to 50 search results, so that’s where the limit comes from. We also use Apple’s random functions to select a restaurant, but there is a slim possibility that you could get the same restaurant twice in a row. While it would be cool to be bought by Yelp, that might not be in the cards for us. We just want to provide a fun & free restaurant app.