MIHS graduate serves up SafeEats free web app
Published 3:30 pm Friday, April 10, 2026
Dan Landeck has put a positive spin on a negative situation and placed SafeEats onto people’s web apps menus.
After his daughter got food poisoning at a restaurant, the 1997 Mercer Island High School graduate cooked up the free web app for people to determine whether eateries are safe or not.
He launched the “one-stop shop” in February for people to look up restaurants they wish to dine at and easily understand food safety inspection data.
“It’s based on the food inspection scores from the health department itself. So there’s no opinions, anything like that. It’s just true data,” said Landeck, 46, who currently lives in Seattle.
To get the app rolling, Landeck gathers live up-to-date information from the markets he’s focused on with the application programming interface (API) he utilizes.
Presently, the app covers seven major markets with live API: Seattle/King County, New York City, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Montgomery County, Maryland. Diners across those terrains can click into 50,000-plus tracked restaurants on SafeEats.
It’s no surprise that food finds its way into Landeck’s thoughts when he digs further into the SafeEats discussion.
“Since it’s so young, I’m trying to make it as accurate as possible rather than just kind of throwing spaghetti at the wall. It is growing. I plan to have it in any available market. As long as there’s health inspectors in that area, it should have it,” said Landeck, who currently works at Microsoft, has constructed video games for 20 years and has notched black and blue belts in Okinawan karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, respectively.
Landeck — who graduated from the University of Washington in 2003 with a double major in economics and political science — has flexed his life to turn his SafeEats hobby into almost a second job where he handles everything on the plate. At press time, about 500 users have gravitated toward the SafeEats site for vital food safety information.
Along with positive feedback from family and friends, Landeck said that a hospitality company founder and CEO sent him a message stating, in part, that SafeEats is a practical and thoughtful innovation and is a huge step toward safer dining experiences.
When Landeck thinks about Mercer Island, where his parents and sister still reside, his mind lands on learning about responsibility and giving back to the community — much like he has with SafeEats.
To check out the site, visit: https://safeeats.base44.app/
