I got tagging working for individual restaurants on my test machine yesterday. This is another hngry user-requested feature, and will let you tag restaurants based on whatever you want… city, spiciness, distance.. whatever, and eventually to search your restaurants and the restaurants of other hngry users, using them… Tags aren’t live on hngry yet, but this is a progress report. I hope to have tags online by the end of the week.
When using the automatic restaurant feature, if hngry came across a restaurant name that contained an ampersand, it would display it as & in the title… for example: “Pluckers Bar & Grill” would display as “Pluckers Bar & Grill”. That is no longer the case. 
Coding furiously over here… I can’t wait to roll out these new features! Of course, I’ll be tightening up the ones that are already out as well.
When you login, there is now an option on the side of “View/Edit Restaurants” named “all at once”.. Click on that and it will show you every restaurant that you have entered, free of pagination. This comes in handy when you want to look up a number for a restaurant quickly. I’m working on getting the list to be sortable alphabetically and by some other items now.
I wrote the entire bit of code that automatically pulls in restaurants this weekend. You now have an option on your start page (the first page you see after logging in) called “Add restaurants automatically“.
If you click on that, type in a restaurant name and the zip code that’s closest to it (or to you), you should get an edit page for a new restaurant with the restaurant name, address, state, phone number, and website address filled in already for you (if it finds the restaurant for you… if not, you’ll just be returned to the same page). If there are any other fields you want to fill in, you can do it right there and then save it. (I recommend that you at least fill in the food type and amount you want to spend). And there you go…new restaurant!
Enjoy. I’ll be working on enhancements to the automatic restaurant feature and the other upcoming features in the near future… right now, though… it’s bedtime.
I’ve been out of town on business all of last week, and have been busy catching up on some other things this week… However, I am quite pleased to announce that I wrote the bulk of the automatic restaurant code tonight… Very very soon you will be able to type a restaurant name and a zip code and have its information automatically added to your list of restaurants. Yeah!