Applebees

"Have you ever had a dish that you enjoyed so much, but the Caf seems to have forgotten about it?" We provide a platform for students to rank their favorite dishes for school kitchen menus in future

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Inspiration

As students who regularly eat at the cafeteria, one frustration that many of us have is the lack of a means to communicate to the school cafeteria of our opinions about the food.

Sometimes, we will have a dish that so many of us liked but somehow the cafe will forget about it and never recreate it for the rest of the semester. Sometimes the cafe regularly serves dishes that many of us find mediocre.

We want to build a platform where students can freely express their preferences about the food served at the cafeteria through a review system that ranks dishes based on popularity.

What it does

It records dishes that the School's cafeteria has served over the semester, and allows students to leave ratings for each dish and show the general student body's preferences.

How we built it

We have build an illustrative demo website on Squarespace that serves as a mock up of our vision

Challenges we ran into

Our biggest challenge was figuring out what we are supposed to do. Most group members have no experience with hackathons and have no idea what to even do. In the beginning of the hackathon, we didn't even know what to do. We were given the subject of Urban Tech, but none of us know what to do with the topic. Are we expected to build a website? Are we expected to build a website? In addition, none of us are equipped with the skills to even produce a working website or mobile app even if we wished to. In the end, we decided that it's best that we build an illustrative demo to at least present our vision for improving campus life to the judges. Due to building the demo on Squarespace, we did not have any code that was written by ourselves, which resulted in us having to build another demo in java that exclusively shows the "review" feature that we wish to implement if we were to actually build such a platform.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that 4 beginners, with no web programming or hackathon experience, was able to actually present a presentable prototype. We went into this hackathon as 4 single participants and matched into this group as strangers and with absolutely no idea on how to even complete a hackathon, but we managed to combine our visions into a clear path and followed through with it by bringing our vision to life through an illustrative demo.

What we learned

What's next for Applebees

Hopefully, we will be far more prepared in terms of coding skill for our next hackathon so that we can present more than just an illustrative demo and a partial java demo. We hope to also have a better grasp of how a hackathon works so that we at least have an understanding of what we are expected to build, and hopefully have the skills to build it.

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