How your match works
The ring around a restaurant says how much of its menu lines up with what you’ve picked. Here’s exactly how we work it out.
What it isn’t
It isn’t a rating of the restaurant, and it isn’t the share of the menu you’ll like. It’s how strongly this menu answers the items you already love. Restaurants can’t pay to change it.
It starts with your picks
Every item you’ve said you’d order again is an ingredient. Nothing else goes in: not what you browse, not what you save, and nothing anyone pays for. The ring appears at five picks.
Each pick looks for its match
For every restaurant, each of your picks finds the closest item on that menu, by what it is rather than what it’s called, and only like for like: drinks with drinks, desserts with desserts, food with food.
Close: a strong match.
Related: it counts, for less.
Some picks count more than others
Recent picks count most: a pick gives up half its weight every 60 days. Mains, drinks and desserts count in full, starters a bit less, sides least.
It adds up, and levels off
The matches add together, with each extra one moving the ring a little less. That’s why it climbs quickly at first and can get close to 100% but never quite reach it.
It moves with you
New picks raise it, and you’ll see a green +N on rings that went up. As picks get older it cools, with a grey −N, until you pick again. If a restaurant changes its menu, its match changes with it.
It knows your habits
One unusual pick won’t steer you. If you rarely choose plant-based dishes, for example, a single vegan pick won’t fill your list with them. It works the other way too: if you eat plant-based, it won’t point you to meat.
What it isn’t
It isn’t a rating of the restaurant, and it isn’t the share of the menu you’ll like. It’s how strongly this menu answers the items you already love. Restaurants can’t pay to change it.