Built different,
on purpose.
The best food in your city has always traveled by word of mouth, through people you trust. We built Tenseats to carry it further, and put a real experience at the end of every recommendation.
Word of mouth
It always starts with a friend.
A friend tells you about this dinner party. A chef someone swears by. A table you hear about the week before it fills.
The best nights have always traveled this way, person to person, through people whose taste you trust.
Tenseats gives that its own room. Every experience is run by someone real, and every recommendation leads to a night you can actually book.
The economics
One clear fee.
Organizers keep the rest.
| Feature | Tenseats | Platform A | Platform B | Platform C |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organizer pays | Nothing | 3.7% + $1.79 | Commission | Free tier limits |
| Guest pays | $1.99 to $4.99 | $2.50+ per ticket | $3 to $5+ | Free, ad-supported |
| Ads or sponsored | ||||
| Data sold | Never | |||
| Insider access | Included | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Built around your city | US metros | Global generic | Restaurant-focused | Event-focused |
For guests
$0.00guest fee, capped
One service fee, and it stops at $4.99. Other platforms price tickets as a percentage, so the fee climbs with the night. Ours steps with the ticket price, then holds however well an event sells, and it drops to nothing when either side is an Insider.
The cap is the Tenseats service fee. Card processing is added at checkout.
For organizers
Nothingto pay
- Ad free, always
- Your data stays yours
- Insider access included
Everything beyond that fee is theirs to keep.
Pricing reflects published rates for comparable ticketed event use cases at time of writing. On most platforms the organizer chooses whether to absorb their fee or pass it to the guest, so what a guest sees can vary. Other platforms may negotiate custom terms.
The Elements · The Planner
Know what the night actually costs.
Food, hours, overhead and pricing in one place, so your energy goes into the night itself.
What gets missed
Who is actually eating
“Sold out” and “how many plates” are different numbers.
- The venue owner and your photographer
- they eat too
- The two vegans at table three
- so the main is for ten
- The friend who cancels day-of
- food already bought, still counted
The hours behind the night
Sourcing, prep, cooking, plating, washing up at midnight.
- Your own time
- priced in, like any other business
- The prep the day before
- still this dinner's cost
- Help booked for three hours
- most have a five-hour minimum
Every cost beyond the plate
Small on their own. Together, often more than food and bar combined.
- Linens you already own
- laundered every time, replaced yearly
- The chargers you're renting again
- the sixth time, buying wins
- Glassware, candles, ice, parking
- quiet, and the biggest line
Money that comes back
Deposits that return, and things this dinner gets to reuse.
- The $500 kitchen deposit
- back in your account next week
- The half bag of flour
- next month's dinner, already paid
- What you'd have spent anyway
- the salt, the oil, the pepper
A season of twelve dinners
$0
That’s $84.81 more per dinner, once you price your own hours in.
A year of dinners
0hours
You get them back, because the Planner does the unit math for you.
Four ways in.
The free sheet
Free · no account
A few dinners in, ready to know exactly what a plate costs.
Open the sheetExpress
Free · in your account
One a month, and the pricing has stopped fitting in your head.
Start freeStandard
$49 once · yours forever
Several a month. Real income, and every device, forever.
Get StandardThe Google Sheet
$47 once · yours forever
The same engine, offline, no account, never renews.
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Raynell Bell
Founder, Tenseats
From the founder.
When I lived in Shanghai, there was a dinner party experience I kept trying to get into. It was always sold out, and I left before the next seat opened up. That is why I built Tenseats. So many chefs, mixologists and people with amazing homes could be making fantastic experiences like that for other people, and you should be able to find them.
Raynell on InstagramNow make a move.
There’s a seat with your name on it. Get on the list and we’ll tell you the moment your city opens.
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