Finally persuaded my friends to eat dessert with me
I have a group of mates that go out for dinner roughly once per month. Nothing fancy, usually either a pub or Nando's. Food's always good, and then someone (usually me) suggest dessert and everybody awkwardly looks around and then inexplicably says that they don't want dessert. Even though I know that many of them definitely do, they just don't want to admit it and risk being the minority of dessert-eaters.
So I came up with a system, where everybody privately votes for their choice, and the system decides who will have dessert for them.
Basically everybody has four options to choose from:
1 - Definitely not having dessert
2 - Doesn't want dessert, but will if everyone else is having
3 - Wants dessert, but won't eat alone
4 - Definitely is having dessert
And the outcome of all the votes determines the fate of the table.
Introducing the system has been a game changer and we've pretty much gone from 0% chance of dessert to 100%. People are weird.
Edit - ok I'd previously just made a prototype but given the popularity of this post I have spent some time on it - https://awhd.es