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 lunch-o
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-Lunching for groups
+Democratic Lunching.
+
+Lunch-O is a lunch voting system, using ranked voting. People in a group
+vote for their favorite place for that day and the system tails the votes.
+
+This is just the server. You'll need a client to actually vote on anything.