Every restaurant her cargo bike can reach

Chiara makes fresh pasta in a tiny workshop in Oltrarno, Florence. She delivers it herself, by cargo bike. She can only serve restaurants a short ride away, but she does not know which ones are worth asking. She tried the famous places on the Arno, and they make their own. Hours of walking in, smiling, and being shown the door. With xMap Flows, Chiara built Ranger. Every Monday, Ranger draws everything within fifteen minutes of her workshop by bike, finds the trattorias and restaurants inside, keeps the ones rated four and a half and up, skips the ones she has already asked, writes each a short note in Italian, and invites the chef to taste her pasta. Ranger finds forty-two good restaurants she can reach before the pasta cools. This week, six get her note, and two chefs reply the same day. By Friday, her cargo bike has two more stops, both in Santo Spirito. Chiara stopped knocking on the wrong doors. Now the right ones write back.

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