A lot of offices do free team lunches, and it sounds great until you actually try to run one. Someone has to pick the place, half the team's been there twice, somebody mentions burgers, somebody else groans, and forty minutes later you're still in the kitchen scrolling Maps. We kept having the same argument. Worse, by the third month nobody could remember whether we'd already been to that pho place around the corner or just talked about going. The free part stops feeling free when the decision tax keeps eating into the lunch hour.

The Lunch Dossier is built around one idea: the office, the walkable restaurants around it, and a clean record of every team lunch you've had. Set one lunch day or set five and the rotation adapts. The desk shows what's left in the cycle, who's on duty, and quick filters for cuisine, distance, and what's open at lunchtime. There's a small roulette for the days nobody wants to decide. Each lunch day gets its own issue, published like a tiny newspaper, which turns the ritual into something the team actually looks forward to instead of admin. By the end of the cycle every walkable place has had its turn and it starts over. Free lunches go back to feeling free.