Lunch Spot Wheel
The lunch spot wheel decides where the team eats, which is the single most reliable use of a random picker in any office.
Eight options to start with, though almost everyone replaces them with the actual places near their office within about a minute.
The lunch deadlock is a genuinely universal office phenomenon. Four people, nobody minds, everyone is being accommodating, and twenty minutes of a sixty-minute break disappear into "I don't mind, where do you want to go". It is not indecision so much as nobody wanting to be responsible for a mediocre lunch that four people have to eat.
A wheel takes the responsibility off all of you. It also breaks the pattern where the group returns to the same place for eight months because it is the only option nobody objects to.
Load it with real names. "Somewhere new" gets ignored; the name of an actual restaurant two streets away does not. Add a few nobody has tried and let the wheel force the issue occasionally.
Lunch Spot Wheel — questions
How do I make this work for my office?
Replace the generic slices with the actual places near you. Named restaurants get acted on; "somewhere new" turns straight back into a discussion.
What if someone objects to the result?
Then it should not have been on the wheel. Build the list as a team and veto freely while building, so every possible outcome is one everybody already accepted.
Can we use it for a rota instead?
Yes. Turn on "Remove winner after spin" and the wheel works through every place on the list before repeating, which is a decent way to stop defaulting to the same one all year.