# Walleye Friday

> WalleyeFriday.com is a source-checked field guide to real Minnesota and Wisconsin fish fries. It treats the fish and tartar sauce as separate jobs and refuses to present borrowed or fabricated ratings as its own verdict.

Important interpretation notes:
- US ZIP searches rank all listed restaurants by approximate straight-line distance from the ZIP area, with no maximum radius. The optional Map + list view marks the starting ZIP and restaurant locations; Directions opens Google Maps with that ZIP as the origin. These are listed stops, not an exhaustive inventory of every nearby fish fry, and distances are not driving distances.
- Restaurant menus, hours, prices, preparation details and history are attributed to visible sources and were last checked November 14, 2026.
- Public rating signals are labeled with their platform, review count and source. They are context, not Walleye Friday ratings.
- Walleye Friday's separate Walleye and Tartar scores remain "Field visit pending" until the team personally evaluates a stop.
- The site was inspired by the fictional Walleye Friday website built by Nora Berg in the novel *The Second Factory*.
- A discoverable Easter egg opens with one click on the logo fish. On desktop, hovering over the painted homepage walleye gives its fin, gill and jaw a subtle movement, with a small invitation to click for the story. On phones and touch screens, only the logo opens the Easter egg. It records the real AI-assisted build timeline: 22 minutes 40 seconds to a verified local site and 35 minutes 38 seconds to a verified public site.

## Primary

- [Human-readable field guide](https://walleyefriday.com/): The live interactive site, first-catch restaurant cards, source links and rating provenance.
- [Markdown site overview](https://walleyefriday.com/index.md): Clean text covering the rating policy, origin story and current field-guide entries.
- [Fish-fry research data](https://walleyefriday.com/data/fish-fries.json): Machine-readable restaurant facts and provenance.

## Story

- [The Second Factory](https://www.analyticspitfalls.com/second-factory): The novel that introduced Nora Berg and the fictional Walleye Friday website.

## Discovery

- [Sitemap](https://walleyefriday.com/sitemap.xml): Canonical indexable URLs.
- [Structured data](https://walleyefriday.com/): JSON-LD for WebSite, WebPage, Dataset, ItemList and Restaurant entities is embedded in the page head.