Thank you very much for the nice comments Rebecca. As previously stated, this application was created mostly as a joke with-in our office so we welcome the suggestions and will most likely be tweaking it if it proves to be something people actually use.

The distance option is currently set to the address of our office here in the beautiful cobblestone/casino district so keep that in mind when you make your selection. While most of the selections require transportation of some sort, I can report that our very first random lunch selection yesterday was "street vendors". We hopped on the metro rail (something I personally haven't used in a decade) and rode it until we saw a vendor and a spot to have lunch. The chicken sausage was delicious.

As for your favorite joints, we put in a pretty good variety but may allow other users to add restaurants to the mix.

Would you mind if we added "Rebecca's Bagged Lunch" to the selection? This would require you delivering us lunch every time it hit but we are probably close enough to walk.

Thanks for the interest BuffaloGeek. You’re amazing detective skills have uncovered a non-secret – some of us do work for a number of different companies. Those of us who created the lunch randomizer did so for our own dining purposes because we were sick of the endless lunchtime debates. So we made this program and we shared it with the world via a post on buffalorising.com. Sadly, it’s not a revenue producing thing. See, we have a number of different businesses down here in the Cobblestone District. There is Buffalo Rising, a media company. There is Think Financial, a student loan company. And there is Egghead Interactive, an online marketing company. We have a shared office but not shared ownership structures. It’s not a product of Hyperlocal Media which is why it’s not identified as a product of Hyperlocal Media. And we’re not even sure if it’s a product or not – it’s just a web program that spits out restaurants based on rankings.

All that aside, I would like to personally thank you for providing us all a good laugh this morning. You’re Mike Wallace style investigation of the domain ownership as if the lunch randomizer was some sort of bank account phishing scam is hysterical. We loved it.

A question for you though – why on earth would you spend 10 minutes looking into who owns the domain for buffalolunchrandomizer.com? Did you hit ‘feed me’ and end up with the dreaded Buffalo General hospital? Or do you want to buy the site? The current high offer is $350,000 so let us know if you want to outbid that.

We may also be posting pictures of our trips to random lunch locations and we were originally planning to blur out our faces to avoid detection but since we’ve been outed, that plan is foiled.

Since you’re desperate for full disclosure of nothingness, here are some other admissions:

- I recently sold a pair of shoes on Ebay and received a favorable review - Both Barry and I used to work at some Buffalo area restaurants so their weightings in this randomized may be skewed by the amount of tips we received while working there - Barry once had a lengthy conversation with Charlie the Butcher

If we think of any other non-secrets we need to share, we’ll post them here.

In the meantime, i'll keep you busy with my secret username.

Sincerely, Anonymous