There probably aren't any restaurants in the database near your location. When you search for a specific restaurant, YumHacker checks it's database as well as querying the Google Places API to look for matches. If you endorse a restaurant, it will get saved in the database and it will appear on the map when you search nearby.

This is a UX problem I'll have to think about going forward.

It got the right place, but it still can't find restaurants near me. I can do the restaurant search and it will find those restaurants near me.

If it helps, I am proxying through California, but I'm actually in Arizona