Food Time

Food Time was created because my friends and I often don’t know what to eat and I wanted a way to find food items based on imagery rather than text. At the time, Yelp worked fine for finding new restaurants but sometimes I would want something specific, like coffee or crab cakes, etc. Also, at the time I thought I was lactose intolerant, so I also wanted to find food based on filters like lactose free food or through a healthy filter because I wanted to eat healthy food.

The project was ambitious with a front-end Pinterest-like infinite scroll layout and a back-end that’s populated using data from a web crawler that extracts menu items and associates them with images. If images were not available then a relevant default photo would be displayed. For example, if a website didn’t have a photo of a “iced vanilla macchiato” then a stock iced vanillia macchiato would be displayed.