Brainstorm + Get rid of Assumptions

Cannot Make Decision: What To Eat

There's so much of food around, food venues to choose from, fast-food, traditional food. Burger or Chinese Noodles? Macdonald or KFC? Where to Eat? What to eat? How to make our decisions. Are you rushing; Do we have enough time to make a quick decision admist the racing clock inbetween school/work breaktime. Are there more interesting ways to make our daily choices where to lunch/brunch/dinner? 

Common;

1. Choosing by ethnic Food, e.g Chinese,Indian,Thai

2. By Fastfood chains, e.g Macdonald, Burger King, Popeyes

3. Fastfood or Ethnic : Burger or rice

4. Cravings 

5. Spicy or sweet

Uncommon;

1. Make a Card game; picture cards of both FOOD and FOOD VENUE Double-sided

 - the card picked will be the place to dine and the card determines the food choice also;

example KFC is picked and at the back of the card shows a Bandito pocket meal. A fun card game that makes all the decision for you

2.Follow up a Food Blog/Blogger; 

Gives all the information of the various food around to try by the blogger. It's more of a  personalised compilation and details of the food.

 https://www.facebook.com/EatWhatFoodSingapore?fref=ts

3. Food Magazine;

http://ieatishootipost.sg/2010/12/nan-heng-hainanese-chicken-rice-mom-and.html#more



I Eat, I Shoot, I Post Magazine
Food magazines are very useful and informative on the various food around the country. All the best interesting food in Singapore are introduced in this magazine with the venue. It is also a good way to find out about new dishes/delights that are uncommon and we are unaware about. Some food venues which are unlikely to us, upon reading a magazine with the food review, could particularly interest us to try it. 

A group of friends can randomly grab a magazine from a nearby store,. e.g 7/11 or, cheers and decide to read it to venture out on trying a new gourmet destination with the shown food choices. 

4. Follow link: Page in Facebook/ Twitter;

Facebook has pages created for the fans to follow up by clicking like on the page, e.g Like a page, starbucks. It is also created with the purpose of advertising their outlets and the delights that are appealing to make people patronise.

Upon looking at the advertisement for instance starbucks, an individual/ a group of friends might suggest to go there.


5. Food Applications Android;


Foodspotting, an app created to guide what are the food nearby around you. 
There's many more apps created for food guide.

A group of friends can make a quick search of the various outlets nearby with this application and decide to go to venue. You can also enter choice of food to see the location of the nearby outlets offering it.

Video of how to use foodspotting on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCr2avRV_fc

6.Purchasing Coupons/Vouchers; Groupon, Deal.com, Q100


 deal.com



There's lots of food vouchers that are hipe on the online  market now for anyone to purchase. Several people are purchasing coupons to get discounts on the outlets/food they are interested in. It's easy and accessible with any android phone!

Step 1: Simply scroll, analyse which food you're interested in (you can simply purchase according to what you would like to eat/ where to lunch/dinner or purchase a coupon according to the area you're at now.)
Step2: Click and purchase the coupon online using credit/debit card.
Step3: Coupon can either be printed or be shown from the phone.

A buffet meal/burger king meal could be bought for 2pax/3pax if a group of friends decide to share money. Or even an individual could get a single meal coupon.
These worthful deals online could make the choice for you What to EAT. 
These mouth watering coupons can give you ideas what to eat by giving the best offers.

7.Food Diaries;
Having a food diary to keep track of what are the food eaten. Keeping a goal as to try many different food around.

8. Food Delivery; 

 Confused what to eat. Simply make a food delivery to school/workplace, e.g pizza