Want to be a Dine with Founders host?

What a host actually does

Less than you think. You are a guest with a job, not staff. You sit at the table, you eat the same dinner as everyone else, and you keep the evening moving.

1. Doors. You welcome people as they arrive and make the first introductions, so nobody stands alone with a drink.
2. Everyone sits. You get the table to introduce themselves once, briefly, and then never again.
3. Between courses, you hand over to the guest of honour, and hand back afterwards.
4. You settle up with the venue, or we do it for you. That is the admin, and that is all of it.

What you get

A comped seat, every time you host. Not a discount and not a voucher: you eat and drink as a guest of the table you are running.

And the best seat in the room, socially. The host is the person everyone meets first and remembers afterwards, which at a table of twelve is worth considerably more than the dinner. Your name and the dinners you have run sit on this page, so the track record is public and yours.

You are paid in connections, not money. If that sounds thin, this is not the right thing for you, and we would both rather know now.

Two ways to do it

Most people start with the first. Some people want the second.

The only thing opening a city needs is a network. If you can fill the first table from your own address book, the rest of it already exists.

The people who host

Everyone who has run a dinner, with the evenings they have run.