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LeetCode 2353, Medium. Topics: Array, Hash Table, String, Design, Heap (Priority Queue), Ordered Set. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 15 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

Design a food rating system that can do the following:
  • Modify the rating of a food item listed in the system.
  • Return the highest-rated food item for a type of cuisine in the system.
Implement the FoodRatings class:
  • FoodRatings(String[] foods, String[] cuisines, int[] ratings) Initializes the system. The food items are described by foods, cuisines, and ratings, all of which have a length of n.
    • foods[i] is the name of the ith food,
    • cuisines[i] is the type of cuisine of the ith food, and
    • ratings[i] is the initial rating of the ith food.
  • void changeRating(String food, int newRating) Changes the rating of the food item with the name food.
  • String highestRated(String cuisine) Returns the name of the food item that has the highest rating for the given type of cuisine. If there is a tie, return the item with the lexicographically smaller name.
Note that a string x is lexicographically smaller than string y if x comes before y in dictionary order, that is, either x is a prefix of y, or if i is the first position such that x[i] != y[i], then x[i] comes before y[i] in alphabetic order.

Examples

Constraints

  • 1 <= n <= 2 * 10^4
  • n == foods.length == cuisines.length == ratings.length
  • 1 <= foods[i].length, cuisines[i].length <= 10
  • foods[i], cuisines[i] consist of lowercase English letters.
  • 1 <= ratings[i] <= 10^8
  • All the strings in foods are distinct.
  • food will be the name of a food item in the system across all calls to changeRating.
  • cuisine will be a type of cuisine of at least one food item in the system across all calls to highestRated.
  • At most 2 * 10^4 calls in total will be made to changeRating and highestRated.

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

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Last modified on September 7, 2026