Overly Complicated DineLA Spreadsheet

TL;DR — Spreadsheet of DineLA restaurants with Resy availability*

The current iteration of DineLA snuck up on me. I don't believe I'm signed up for any notifications from them, so this wasn't a surprising occurrence. Perhaps I'm taken aback simply from the passage of time since the previous one back in February of this year.

During DineLA, twice a year for two weeks at a time, a boatload of restaurants offer prix-fixe menus to diners at a sorta-discounted price. I mean, they're discounted from their regular prices, but anytime you're threatened with dropping $45-65 per person for a meal, the price tag at many of the included eateries, you're quickly considering a detour toward the closest Taco Bell.

And really for any meal, a detour toward Taco Bell is never a bad turn.

However it's great to support local restaurants, and DineLA offers an accessible route for most people to do so.

In my case, every quarter I receive a credit that can be used at any Resy-listed restaurant. So I was hoping to maximize this credit and apply it toward one of these DineLA restaurants. To do so I employed one of those online robot tools and cross-referenced the DineLA list with Resy restaurants, along with Yelp and Google user ratings. 

You can find the spreadsheet here.

* If you use it, please keep in mind that the AI I used may be wrong, very wrong, or very-est wrong. However it could also be mostly right. And if there’s something that’s incorrect, please let us know.

Also, this chatbot kept asking me to send risqué photos of myself to it. Does that happen to anyone else? What is it training on?