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Lunchwalla Brings Social Networking to Office Dining

by Terrence O'Brien on March 18, 2010 at 03:10 PM

Planning lunch or meals with friends can be a royal pain. Nobody can agree on when or where, and, without fail, someone is always forgotten in the shuffle of invite e-mails and text messages. That's where Lunchwalla comes in. The pitch is simple: choose who to invite, select some restaurant options (easier said than done), set the time and day, and hit send.

The people you've invited will then be able to check out reviews from Yelp, and vote on where to eat. Lunchwalla even integrates with OpenTable for making reservations, if necessary. The site is, more or less, a brilliant mashup of Evite, Yelp, and OpenTable. There isn't much tweaking to do once you've selected your contacts and restaurant options, but the opportunities to keep an event private and to let participants know it's your treat are both nice touches.

We also appreciate the ease of registration, thanks to Facebook Connect. Create an account, and Lunchwalla auto-populates your profile with information culled from your Facebook page. For the moment, you can't import contacts from Facebook, but Gmail, Yahoo!, and AOL contacts are supported, as is importing from CSV, LDIF, and vCard.

Check out the video below for a quick walk-through, straight from the Lunchwalla team. [From: Lifehacker]

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