Seattle Food & Bev help

The list comes from your Google Sheet. The app only reads your restaurant tab; everything it saves goes to the "app data" tab.

Reading a card

🚌 17 min	Transit time from where you are (or your planned start). The walk is listed too when it's under 25 minutes.
1.2 mi	Straight-line distance, for places beyond the nearest 15 or when there's no signal.
🕒 / ⚠️ / 🔴	Open until a time and how long you'd have; under an hour is flagged; closed when you'd arrive.
🍹 / 🏷	Happy hour on (or starting within 30 min) when you'd arrive, or a special that day. These places move to the top when they're within 20 minutes.
💳 inKind	The deals or description cell says "inkind". Also moves to the top when open and within 20 minutes.
⭐ 💚 ✓	From your "would recommend" section; a green-highlighted row; marked visited in the app.

Tap a card to open the place in Google Maps.

At the bottom of the list, tap Share setup link and send the link privately. Opening it once connects that phone; then add the page to the home screen.
The link works like a password to your list. If it ever gets out, see "The link got out" below.
With no signal the list still opens. For a map with no signal, download the area in the Google Maps app (profile picture → Offline maps); tapping a card opens it there.

Add, edit, or remove places in the restaurant tab of the Sheet, then tap Refresh. A new place appears at once wherever its row is, as long as it's under the right heading. Its location and hours come from a Google lookup: tap Look up now when the app offers it, wait for the overnight run, or use the Sheet's Seattle Food & Bev → Fill missing info menu.
✎ Edit notes on a card changes its description or deals in the app only (marked "edited in app"). The restaurant tab isn't changed; the original stays visible in the edit form with an undo, and if you later change that cell in the Sheet, the Sheet wins.
＋ Add a place in the app searches Google, lets you pick the match, and saves it to the Sheet's "added from app" tab. The app never writes to the restaurant tab; move rows across by hand whenever you like (a place in both tabs is shown once).
Deals are read from the deals column: days and times like HH m-f 4-6, daily 5-6, 9-close, or $2 oysters mondays. "Happy hour" with no times is shown but can't be ranked.
Type inkind in a place's deals cell to give it the inKind chip.
A green fill on the name marks a favorite. Rows under your avoid heading never appear.

The script manages it. Two things are yours to type in the Status column: ok (the Google match is right, stop flagging it) and skip (not a single place, so no location).
Red rows weren't found on Google; yellow rows matched a different name. Fixing the name or neighborhood in the restaurant tab makes it look again.
Visits you mark in the app are saved here: date, verdict, deals seen, notes.

The Sheet's Seattle Food & Bev → Show Google usage this month menu shows how much of each free allowance is used. The script stops itself at about 90% of each.
Travel times are reused if you've moved less than 200 m in the last 10 minutes.
The map view's own limit is the daily cap set on the map key in Google Cloud.

There's nothing to do on a schedule. Each night the script looks up new places and refreshes the oldest hours.
If something needs fixing, a ⚠️ Needs attention box appears at the top of the list saying what and why: a renamed tab or heading, Google refusing requests (usually billing or the key), an allowance nearly used up, or the overnight update not running.
Worth a glance every month or two: the red and yellow rows in the "app data" tab, and Show Google usage this month in the Sheet's menu.
Keep the restaurant tab's name and its section headings as they are; the script finds places by them.

"Couldn't update the list": no signal. The app shows the copy it saved last time, sorted by straight-line distance.
List is A–Z: location is blocked or off. Allow it for this site in Chrome's site settings.
"The key doesn't match": use Change Sheet connection at the bottom of the list and paste the URL and key again.
The link got out: in Apps Script, run resetKey, then showAppSetup, and enter the new key on each phone.