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Not really.

GasBuddy has a standard: price per gallon

But this is just a map of the lower-priced items, which are available everywhere. You can find a cheap sandwich, bowl of soup, slice of pizza, or taco virtually anywhere. There is no corresponding standard point of comparison (no "gallon").

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There's the calorie. Not always a good metric of health, but it's still a signal.

$/cal varies meaningfully between home cooking, Costco, Chipotle, fast casual, sit-down, frozen meals, etc.

Actually I'd love to see this metric.

New Project for me!(I'm laid off, so I got time)

The unit should be a Meal. Not just an appetizer, a full meal. (Does it include drink? In US, many places give free tap water, but not others. Is it okay if it’s only lunch, or should it be available for dinner too? What about tipping?)

Yes, adding this as default recommandation from now on, adding filter so user can filter out single item like taco and appentizer

> What about tipping?

Please find a way to punish restaurants that don’t pay living wages and force staff to live from the tips. This is just wrong.

No tips ever for take out and remember that tips are no longer taxed so the made up percentages from before are no longer relevant.

It's a little different, instead of maximizing gas/price they're maximizing community rating subject to 10$ limit. I have often wanted to query google reviews in this way. I think yelp might have let you do this back in the day. If this data is already being scraped continuously what I'd really like is a query interface.

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