where to eat in Sandton?

you close deals all day. you cannot close on lunch. Karen will.

justpick in Sandton Karen explains, reluctantly

Sandton is where a team lunch can take longer to decide than the meeting before it. justpick turns that into a two-minute swipe: say where the office is, pick the budget the expense policy allows, and swipe through restaurants around you.

Use it for a quick weekday lunch, a client dinner, or the Friday “somewhere nearby, please” debate. The results are live from Google, so what you see is what is around that address today.

pick for me in Sandton

free. no sign-up. type your suburb on the next screen. Karen does the rest.

areas to type in real places. Karen checked.

justpick doesn’t keep its own list of Sandton restaurants. Karen refuses to play favourites. It searches around whatever area you give it, so the more specific you are, the better the deck. A few you could start with, if you’re capable of starting:

Tip for Sandton: for a work lunch, type the building’s street rather than “Sandton”. Karen can’t know that you only have forty-five minutes, but distance helps.

someone else is paying? then Full Send. obviously.

how it works here five steps. you can manage five.

  1. Say where you are. Type a suburb or street in Sandton, or tap “use my location” and let your phone snitch to Karen. Your location is only used for this search and isn’t stored. She’s nosy, not creepy.
  2. Go Out or Stay In. Go Out shows restaurants you can sit down in, on real chairs, in real shoes. Stay In looks at delivery and hands you over to Mr D Food or Uber Eats to order. Pyjamas optional.
  3. Set a budget. Chilled is under R150 a person, Lekker is R150 to R300 a person, Full Send is R300+ a person. Karen doesn’t judge. (She judges.)
  4. Pick cravings and dealbreakers. One cuisine or several, plus anything you flat-out refuse to eat. Karen respects a hard no.
  5. Swipe. Right to keep, left to skip. Each card shows the photo, Google rating, distance and whether it’s open. Tap for directions. Stop at the first one that makes your stomach growl.

Try this in Sandton: Sandton Central, Full Send, Steak and Sushi. Then swipe until something makes you hungry, or until Karen loses patience. Whichever comes first. (It’s Karen.)

cuisines and dealbreakers she has a comment for every one

Thirteen cuisines to choose from. That’s thirteen more than you managed on your own:

And the dealbreakers, which take places out of the deck instead of adding them. Every group has one person who lives in this section:

Can’t face any of it? WTF Mode picks go out or stay in, the budget and the cuisine for you, then serves up restaurants. You just eat. Honestly, Karen’s favourite button.

Karen, unprompted nobody asked. she’s saying it anyway.

The Bokke defended a World Cup with less fuss than your team takes to agree on a table for eight. Be more Bokke. Swipe.

Your calendar has more back-to-back meetings than a wizard school has moving staircases. Karen found lunch in the gap. You’re welcome.

what Karen won’t pretend she has standards. a few.

Restaurants, photos, ratings and opening hours come live from Google Places when you search. justpick doesn’t rank Sandton’s “best” restaurants, doesn’t take payment to show a place, and doesn’t run ads. Karen can’t be bought, and she’s offended you wondered. If a place is missing or out of date, it is missing or out of date on Google too. Take it up with them. Politely.

you’ve read enough. go eat.

let’s pick already

Karen is waiting. she’s not patient. she was never patient.

other cities she gets around. the whole country is her playground.