Benefits For Host Venues
Partnering with Dinners With Friends offers tangible benefits for your venue, from increased revenue to community goodwill.
Guaranteed Regular Bookings
Host a table of 10-20 diners weekly or bi-weekly, providing consistent revenue you can count on.
Unlock Quiet Periods
Our events typically run on weekday evenings, helping you generate revenue during traditionally slower periods.
Expand Your Audience
Introduce your venue to local diners who might not have discovered you otherwise, creating potential repeat customers.
Increased Average Spend
Our guests typically order full meals with drinks, appetizers, and desserts, boosting your average table spend.
PR & Community Recognition
Gain visibility as a community-minded business supporting meaningful social connections in your local area.
Give Back to the Community
Help combat loneliness and isolation by providing a welcoming space for people to form genuine friendships.
How Our Partnership Works
Working with Dinners With Friends is simple and designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing operations. Here's our proven process:
Initial Contact & Discussion
We'll meet to discuss your venue, understand your capacity, menu options, and specific requirements to ensure a great fit for our community.
Event Scheduling
Together we'll identify optimal days and times that work for your venue, typically on quieter weekday evenings when you might appreciate additional bookings.
Menu & Experience Planning
We'll collaborate on creating an ideal dining experience, which might include set menu options, special drinks, or unique table arrangements to foster conversation.
Event Marketing
We handle all the marketing, ticket sales, and guest communications, bringing a ready-made group of diners to your establishment with no effort on your part.
Hosting the Event
Your staff provides their usual excellent service, while our host ensures guests mix and mingle comfortably. We handle any special requirements or situations.
Feedback & Future Planning
After each event, we gather feedback from both guests and your team to continuously improve the experience and plan for future collaborations.
What We Look For in Partner Venues
The perfect venue partners share our vision for creating meaningful social connections in a welcoming environment. Here's what makes an ideal match:
- Seating capacity for a group of 10-20 people (ideally at one large table or a few tables close together)
- Welcoming and attentive staff who understand the community-building nature of our events
- Quality food and drink options with some flexibility for dietary requirements
- A noise level that allows for comfortable conversation among the group
- Accessibility features for guests with mobility needs
- Available on weekday evenings (typically Monday-Thursday)
Don't meet all these criteria? We're still happy to discuss how we might adapt our events to work with your unique space.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about our unique dining experience, where strangers become friends over a shared meal.