Week 2 - Excel

    The revolution in eating has begun. My idea, where we you order food from your phone before you even get to the restaurant has ballooned. FoodOn, will be the new name for the application for the smartphones of the world and will also include an algorithm similar to Genius for Apple that will allow users to automatically find selections they like. This selection process will range from dishes within the menu itself of the restaurant you have already selected to go to, to the choosing of the actual restaurant itself. The algorithm will process your eating habits over a trial period of perhaps a month to give you the best possible results of places that you might actually enjoy going to.
    The choosing of the possible dishes in the restaurant can be facilitated through this algorithm because it can monitor your dish choosing habits form your previous restaurant visits and therefore give you an accurate portrayal of what you might like even if you have never visited the restaurant before. This of course requires you to make previous selections over an extended period of time to ensure accuracy and maximum satisfaction and it also requires the restaurant to input every major ingredient used in a certain dish so the algorithm can “guess” what you might like to eat. This is different from the Genius feature in Apple because most of the time, I believe that the application is too rash and bases its decisions too rapidly thus giving me possibilities I do not really end up taking seriously.
    This can all be tied back to the previous lecture of Excel because an Excel database might be what is used to log all of the eating choices that a customer or user of the application makes. It can also chart the ingredients that a user intakes so the algorithm that was stated earlier can process the possible selections much more easily and with more speed. Although i am not really sure on the more technical aspects of Excel, I am sure that some form of functions will be used to calculate the sheer amount of food that the consumer will intake as this will all go into the calculation of recommended menu items and eating venues. And if there will be much data being processed, perhaps with numbers such as calories a person consumes, pivot tables will most likely be used.
    All in all, a successful start, I see this application becoming a large-scale operation that if done right, will revolutionize the restaurant market.