Cookout tally
Tap a card each time someone tells you what they want. No names, no typing — just the count, the way the notebook does it. It keeps working with no signal, and locking your phone doesn't lose it.
Why a tally and not a list of names
The person at the grill has one question — how many go on now — and the notebook answers it with tally marks, not a spreadsheet. Asking "and what's your name?" is what would kill this: you are holding a drink, talking to someone, and walking. One tap is the whole interaction.
Hamburgers and cheeseburgers are separate on purpose. They're different orders to different people, and asking "with cheese?" for every burger is exactly the round trip this is meant to remove.
When the party is big enough to lose track
Past twenty or so people, one person tapping cards stops being reliable — you get pulled away mid-count, or two people ask you at once. Start a live tally instead and send the link round: everyone puts their own order in from wherever they're standing, and whoever's cooking watches the count add up, sees exactly who asked for what, and gets a list of who hasn't ordered yet.
Before the tally: how much to actually buy
This page counts what people want once they're standing in your garden. Working out how much to come home from the shop with is the other half of the job — the cookout calculator turns a headcount into packs of buns and pounds of beef, with a cushion for burnt ones and drop-ins.
Everything for the day sits together on the cookout page.
Eating out instead?
If the grill stays cold, EatNearMe picks a real restaurant near you — spin the wheel, run a group bracket so everyone gets a vote, or settle it from a shortlist you already have.