Stop the group chat spiral.
Somebody puts the options up, everybody taps the ones they'd be happy with, and a hard deadline picks the winner. Nobody has to be the person who decides, and nobody has to install anything to vote.
It doesn't search for restaurants. You add the options yourself, by name or by pasting a link.
It doesn't send notifications or texts. The share link is how people find out.
It doesn't remember your friends between sessions. Every vote starts from one link.
Built in Philadelphia. It's early — if something is broken or confusing, the two faces in the footer go straight to the people working on it. (The voting screens leave them off on purpose: every link off a ballot would discard the picks you had made.)