[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-timeleft-review":3,"related-timeleft-review":238},{"id":4,"title":5,"about":6,"author":7,"body":8,"canonical":214,"city":6,"date":215,"description":216,"extension":217,"faq":218,"image":229,"meta":230,"navigation":231,"path":232,"seo":233,"slug":234,"stem":235,"tag":236,"updated":6,"__hash__":237},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-review.md","Timeleft Review 2026: Cost, How It Works, Is It Worth It",null,"Loic Bachellerie",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":202},"minimark",[11,15,34,37,42,45,48,51,54,58,61,64,67,70,73,77,80,83,87,90,93,96,99,102,106,109,112,115,119,122,125,133,140,144,151,157,163,169,175,179],[12,13,14],"p",{},"Timeleft is the app that books you a restaurant table with a small group of strangers. You answer a quiz, pay a subscription, pick a date, and find out the rest later. By the company's own count it runs in more than 200 cities across 50-plus countries, and the US App Store gave it an Editors' Choice badge.",[12,16,17,18,23,24,28,29,33],{},"This is the general review: how it works, what it really costs, what reviewers keep saying, and who it suits. The city versions are separate: ",[19,20,22],"a",{"href":21},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-vancouver","Vancouver",", ",[19,25,27],{"href":26},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-san-francisco","San Francisco"," and ",[19,30,32],{"href":31},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-los-angeles","Los Angeles",".",[12,35,36],{},"We run a founder dinner club in the same three cities, so we are not neutral. Every fact below comes from Timeleft's own pages, its App Store listing or Trustpilot, checked in October 2026, and we say where our view comes in.",[38,39,41],"h2",{"id":40},"how-timeleft-works","How Timeleft works",[12,43,44],{},"The sign-up is a questionnaire, not a profile. Timeleft's own guide describes it as a short assessment of your personality and social energy, plus practical preferences: neighbourhood, language, dietary needs and budget. You fill it in once.",[12,46,47],{},"Then you book. Dinner is the main product; the app also lists drinks, coffees and group runs in many cities, and women-only dinners on Tuesdays in more than fifty. You can book up to 13 hours before an event starts.",[12,49,50],{},"Timeleft builds a table of four to six people it expects to get along, weighing personality, age range and language, and reserves the restaurant. You do not see names or photos in advance; the booking guide says you may see light details such as the industries people work in.",[12,52,53],{},"The restaurant is revealed late on purpose. Timeleft's guide says the day before; the App Store listing says on the day. Either way, you commit to a night you cannot research. The app offers icebreakers at the table, and afterwards a Connect feature lets you send a request to anyone you want to see again.",[38,55,57],{"id":56},"what-it-costs-the-subscription-plus-the-dinner","What it costs: the subscription plus the dinner",[12,59,60],{},"There are two bills, and only the first one is on the pricing screen.",[12,62,63],{},"The subscription. Timeleft's guide puts it at $19.99 a month in the United States and says pricing varies by market, so treat any number in a blog post, including this one, as roughly right and check the app for your country. The US App Store listing shows three tiers at $19.99, $46.99 and $62.99, the larger two being longer plans. There is no per-event ticket on top: an active subscription covers the events you book.",[12,65,66],{},"The meal. Not included. You order and pay the restaurant directly, which is why the quiz asks for a budget. A recurring complaint is landing at a restaurant above the budget you picked.",[12,68,69],{},"Cancelling. You can cancel the subscription at any time, effective at the end of the billing period. Missing a dinner you booked without cancelling costs a no-show penalty of 35 percent of the monthly subscription price.",[12,71,72],{},"So the honest monthly number is the subscription plus one restaurant bill for every dinner you attend.",[38,74,76],{"id":75},"what-people-like","What people like",[12,78,79],{},"The US App Store listing sits at 4.6 stars from about 8,700 ratings. The reviews that carry the score describe the same thing: a low-pressure way to meet people, because everyone at the table opted in to meeting people. Several are from people who had just moved to a city.",[12,81,82],{},"On Trustpilot, where the overall score is lower, 47 percent of 767 reviews are still five stars. Those praise the concept, the conversations and friendships that outlasted the night. Journalists who tried it, for Axios in Denver and Washington and for Time Out in Austin, wrote roughly the same arc: nervous walking in, a slow start, then an evening they would not otherwise have had.",[38,84,86],{"id":85},"what-people-complain-about","What people complain about",[12,88,89],{},"Trustpilot is where the complaints collect: a 3.2 TrustScore, with 27 percent of reviews at one star. The themes repeat enough to be useful.",[12,91,92],{},"Billing is the biggest: renewals people did not expect, charges continuing after they thought they had cancelled, no refund when an event fell through. Support is second, with reviewers describing waits of five to seven days for a reply.",[12,94,95],{},"The room is next: restaurants too loud to hold one conversation, reservations the venue did not have, last-minute venue changes. For a product whose whole output is conversation, noise is the failure that matters most.",[12,97,98],{},"Matching is fourth: tables that felt random on age, uneven gender balance, no way to see the group before committing. App Store reviews add a restaurant outside the price range chosen in the quiz, and friction when a shared bill lands. Last, nights that do not happen: events cancelled for low bookings, or tables where someone did not show.",[12,100,101],{},"None of this means a typical night goes badly. The split in the ratings says most do, and the ones that do not generate detailed reviews.",[38,103,105],{"id":104},"who-it-is-for-and-who-it-is-not-for","Who it is for, and who it is not for",[12,107,108],{},"Timeleft published its own self-assessment, and it is candid. The product is built for adults who find unstructured social events exhausting, who prefer small groups, and who find it easier to say yes when there is a clear end time. If that is you, the format removes every decision except showing up.",[12,110,111],{},"It also says who should skip it: people primarily looking for dates, because the matching ignores romantic compatibility; people who need to know who they are meeting before they agree to show up, because the late reveal raises anxiety rather than lowering it; and people who prefer spontaneous plans, because the format runs on fixed commitments.",[12,113,114],{},"From our side, add anyone new to a city, anyone working remotely, and anyone who wants a standing reason to leave the house. One rule from the reviewers who liked it: go three or four times before you decide. A single table tells you nothing.",[38,116,118],{"id":117},"timeleft-for-founders","Timeleft for founders",[12,120,121],{},"Timeleft is clear in its own words: not a dating app, not a dinner club, and not a networking tool. Its matching uses personality, age range and language. It never asks what you are building or what stage you are at, because that is not what it is for.",[12,123,124],{},"So if you are a founder looking for people who understand your week, the mismatch is structural. Across four to six people drawn from a whole city, the chance that someone else is building something is low, and the chance they are at your stage is lower. You will likely have a good dinner, and the table did not come out to talk about work.",[12,126,127,128,132],{},"That is the job ",[19,129,131],{"href":130},"\u002Fapply","Founder Feast"," exists for: an invite-only founder dinner club in Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles. You apply once and a person reads it, usually within a day, with no interview call. Dinners are on Thursday evenings at 7pm, five vetted founders per table, sometimes with an investor or operator, matched on stage and industry. The restaurant and who is coming are revealed 24 hours before. You book a Thursday in the app, pay the restaurant for your own food, and can cancel anytime. Membership is $39.99 a month, CAD in Vancouver and USD in San Francisco and Los Angeles. No panels, no name badges, no pitching.",[12,134,135,136,33],{},"Plenty of people use both: Timeleft for the city, a founder table for the company. The full comparison is in our ",[19,137,139],{"href":138},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-alternative-for-founders","Timeleft alternative guide for founders",[38,141,143],{"id":142},"common-questions","Common questions",[12,145,146,150],{},[147,148,149],"strong",{},"How does Timeleft work?","\nAnswer a short questionnaire, subscribe, book a date. Timeleft groups four to six people and books the restaurant. No names or photos beforehand; the venue arrives the day before or on the day.",[12,152,153,156],{},[147,154,155],{},"How much does Timeleft cost?","\nRoughly $19.99 USD a month in the United States, varying by market, with longer plans on the US App Store at $46.99 and $62.99. The meal is paid to the restaurant on top.",[12,158,159,162],{},[147,160,161],{},"Is Timeleft worth it?","\nYes if you want new people in your city and can enjoy a night you cannot plan. Ratings are split: 4.6 on the US App Store, 3.2 on Trustpilot. Go several times before judging.",[12,164,165,168],{},[147,166,167],{},"Can you cancel Timeleft?","\nYes, any time, effective at the end of the billing period. Do it in the app before the renewal date. Skipping a booked dinner without cancelling carries a 35 percent no-show penalty.",[12,170,171,174],{},[147,172,173],{},"Is Timeleft good for networking or meeting founders?","\nNo, by its own description. It matches on personality, not profession or stage. A vetted founder dinner is the direct route.",[38,176,178],{"id":177},"related-reading","Related reading",[180,181,182,189,195],"ul",{},[183,184,185,188],"li",{},[19,186,187],{"href":138},"Timeleft vs Founder Feast",", the head-to-head for founders.",[183,190,191,194],{},[19,192,193],{"href":21},"Timeleft in Vancouver",", the city version with Canadian pricing.",[183,196,197,201],{},[19,198,200],{"href":199},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffounder-dinner-club","What an entrepreneur dinner club costs in 2026",", if you are comparing membership models.",{"title":203,"searchDepth":204,"depth":204,"links":205},"",2,[206,207,208,209,210,211,212,213],{"id":40,"depth":204,"text":41},{"id":56,"depth":204,"text":57},{"id":75,"depth":204,"text":76},{"id":85,"depth":204,"text":86},{"id":104,"depth":204,"text":105},{"id":117,"depth":204,"text":118},{"id":142,"depth":204,"text":143},{"id":177,"depth":204,"text":178},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-review","2026-10-16","Timeleft reviewed for 2026: how the app works, what the subscription and the meal cost, what reviewers praise and complain about, and who it suits.","md",[219,221,223,225,227],{"q":149,"a":220},"You download the app, answer a short questionnaire about your personality, social energy and practical preferences such as neighbourhood, language, diet and budget, then subscribe and book a dinner date. Timeleft groups four to six people it expects to get along and books a restaurant. You do not see names or photos beforehand. The restaurant is revealed the day before, or on the day according to the App Store listing. At the table the app offers icebreakers, and afterwards a Connect feature lets you send a request to anyone you want to keep in touch with.",{"q":155,"a":222},"Two bills. The subscription is roughly $19.99 USD a month in the United States, according to Timeleft's own guide, which also says pricing varies by market. The US App Store listing shows longer plans at $46.99 and $62.99. The subscription covers your bookings while it is active and there is no per-event ticket on top. Dinner itself is not included: you order and pay the restaurant directly on the night, so the real monthly cost is the subscription plus however many meals you eat. Check the app for the price in your country.",{"q":161,"a":224},"It is worth it if you want to meet new people in your city, are comfortable with a night you cannot research in advance, and will go to several dinners rather than judge it on one. Ratings are split: 4.6 on the US App Store from about 8,700 ratings, 3.2 on Trustpilot from 767 reviews where roughly half are five stars and a quarter are one star. The happy reviews describe good conversation and real friendships. The unhappy ones describe billing surprises, loud rooms and tables that did not feel matched.",{"q":167,"a":226},"Yes. Timeleft's booking guide says you can cancel the subscription at any time and the cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, so you keep access until then and are not charged again. Billing is the most common complaint on Trustpilot, mostly renewals people did not expect, so cancel inside the app before the renewal date rather than assuming a lapsed month ends itself. Separately, skipping a dinner you booked without cancelling it carries a no-show penalty of 35 percent of the monthly subscription price.",{"q":173,"a":228},"No, and Timeleft says so. Its own pages describe it as not a dating app, not a dinner club and not a networking tool, and its matching uses personality, age range and language rather than profession or company stage. You might sit beside another founder, but it would be chance. If meeting other founders is the goal, a vetted founder dinner club such as Founder Feast, which seats five vetted founders per table on Thursday evenings in Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles, is built for that job.","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fdinner-conversation.jpg",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-review",{"title":5,"description":216},"timeleft-review","blog\u002Ftimeleft-review","Community","FITu_BYHNqmLfxIngwNKnLQmX71VCMGUlO_jkVFCzMA",[239,725,959],{"id":240,"title":241,"about":6,"author":7,"body":242,"canonical":706,"city":6,"date":707,"description":708,"extension":217,"faq":709,"image":718,"meta":719,"navigation":231,"path":720,"seo":721,"slug":722,"stem":723,"tag":236,"updated":707,"__hash__":724},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ffounder-feast-vs-entrepreneur-dinner-club.md","Founder Feast vs Entrepreneur Dinner Club (2026): An Honest Comparison",{"type":9,"value":243,"toc":696},[244,247,250,254,509,513,519,525,535,541,547,551,557,563,573,579,585,591,597,601,604,615,618,621,625,628,632,639,642,652,654,660,666,672,674],[12,245,246],{},"Founder Feast and Entrepreneur Dinner Club are both membership dinner clubs:\nyou pay a monthly fee, a small group sits down at a restaurant, and you pay\nfor your own food. They differ on who gets in, how the table is built, when\nyou learn who is coming, and where they run.",[12,248,249],{},"We run Founder Feast, so read this knowing where we sit. Founder Feast and\nEntrepreneur Dinner Club are separate companies with no connection to each\nother. Every fact about Entrepreneur Dinner Club below comes from its own\npublic pages, linked, and was checked on 29 September 2026. Their details may\nhave changed since, so check their site before you decide. We quote no\nreviews and nothing from forums.",[38,251,253],{"id":252},"at-a-glance","At a glance",[255,256,257,271],"table",{},[258,259,260],"thead",{},[261,262,263,266,268],"tr",{},[264,265],"th",{},[264,267,131],{},[264,269,270],{},"Entrepreneur Dinner Club",[272,273,274,301,319,336,355,371,387,403,419,435,451,471,491],"tbody",{},[261,275,276,282,285],{},[277,278,279],"td",{},[147,280,281],{},"Price",[277,283,284],{},"$39.99 a month (CAD in Vancouver, USD in San Francisco and Los Angeles), $89.99 for 3 months, $119.99 for 6 months",[277,286,287,288,294,295,300],{},"$49 a month standard, $49 to $79 in Miami (",[19,289,293],{"href":290,"rel":291},"https:\u002F\u002Fentrepreneurdinner.club\u002F",[292],"nofollow","entrepreneurdinner.club","); billed through Whop (",[19,296,299],{"href":297,"rel":298},"https:\u002F\u002Fwhop.com\u002Fedc\u002Fedc\u002F",[292],"whop.com\u002Fedc",")",[261,302,303,308,311],{},[277,304,305],{},[147,306,307],{},"Getting in",[277,309,310],{},"A free application, and a person reads every one before you are accepted",[277,312,313,314,300],{},"A sign-up survey; members should have a business or creative pursuits, and a job or being a student does not exclude you (",[19,315,318],{"href":316,"rel":317},"https:\u002F\u002Fentrepreneurdinnerclub.notion.site\u002F",[292],"FAQ",[261,320,321,326,329],{},[277,322,323],{},[147,324,325],{},"How the table is built",[277,327,328],{},"By a person, on stage, industry and what you are working on",[277,330,331,332,300],{},"A personality quiz and an algorithm, grouping people different enough to keep it interesting and similar enough to get along (",[19,333,335],{"href":290,"rel":334},[292],"site",[261,337,338,343,346],{},[277,339,340],{},[147,341,342],{},"Table size",[277,344,345],{},"A table of five",[277,347,348,349,354],{},"Its pages give different numbers: 5 to 7 other members on the homepage, 5 fellow entrepreneurs on its welcome page (",[19,350,353],{"href":351,"rel":352},"https:\u002F\u002Fthankyouedc.carrd.co\u002F",[292],"page","), and 10 entrepreneurs a month on its Whop listing",[261,356,357,362,365],{},[277,358,359],{},[147,360,361],{},"When",[277,363,364],{},"Every other Thursday, 7pm",[277,366,367,368,300],{},"Every other Tuesday, 7pm, two dinners a month (",[19,369,335],{"href":290,"rel":370},[292],[261,372,373,378,381],{},[277,374,375],{},[147,376,377],{},"What you learn in advance",[277,379,380],{},"The restaurant and who is at your table, 24 hours before",[277,382,383,384,300],{},"The restaurant and reservation details, the morning of the dinner (",[19,385,335],{"href":290,"rel":386},[292],[261,388,389,394,397],{},[277,390,391],{},[147,392,393],{},"Food",[277,395,396],{},"You pay the restaurant",[277,398,399,400,300],{},"You pay the restaurant (",[19,401,335],{"href":290,"rel":402},[292],[261,404,405,410,413],{},[277,406,407],{},[147,408,409],{},"Cities",[277,411,412],{},"Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles",[277,414,415,416,300],{},"More than 48 cities across America, Canada, Europe and Australia, by its own count (",[19,417,335],{"href":290,"rel":418},[292],[261,420,421,426,429],{},[277,422,423],{},[147,424,425],{},"App",[277,427,428],{},"iPhone, Android and web",[277,430,431,432,300],{},"No app; its site says so plainly (",[19,433,335],{"href":290,"rel":434},[292],[261,436,437,442,445],{},[277,438,439],{},[147,440,441],{},"Between dinners",[277,443,444],{},"Your table's own chat, the member directory and member chat, and member-hosted coffees, runs and hikes",[277,446,447,448,300],{},"Optional coffee meetups, walks and casual events between dinners, and community access (",[19,449,335],{"href":290,"rel":450},[292],[261,452,453,458,465],{},[277,454,455],{},[147,456,457],{},"Cancelling",[277,459,460,461,300],{},"Any time from your account, or in the App Store or Google Play if you subscribed there; access runs to the end of the period (",[19,462,464],{"href":463},"\u002Fterms","terms",[277,466,467,468,300],{},"Any time, by emailing support or in your Whop account (",[19,469,335],{"href":290,"rel":470},[292],[261,472,473,478,483],{},[277,474,475],{},[147,476,477],{},"Refunds",[277,479,480,481,300],{},"Non-refundable except where the law requires, with prorated refunds at our discretion for documented outages (",[19,482,464],{"href":463},[277,484,485,486,300],{},"No refund unless the law requires it, or at its discretion on request (",[19,487,490],{"href":488,"rel":489},"https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.google.com\u002Fdocument\u002Fd\u002F1Tiryd7Yt0uRpv1c_5GrDnXV2iM-5uGmeDqZ9xuJH6Wk\u002Fedit",[292],"terms of service",[261,492,493,498,503],{},[277,494,495],{},[147,496,497],{},"Missing a dinner",[277,499,500,501,300],{},"Cancel free more than 24 hours before; a no-show may carry a $50 CAD seat-replacement fee (",[19,502,464],{"href":463},[277,504,505,506,300],{},"Tell them 24 hours ahead; after 3 no-shows the membership is cancelled (",[19,507,318],{"href":316,"rel":508},[292],[38,510,512],{"id":511},"where-entrepreneur-dinner-club-may-suit-you-better","Where Entrepreneur Dinner Club may suit you better",[12,514,515,518],{},[147,516,517],{},"You travel, or you live outside our three cities."," This is the big one.\nEntrepreneur Dinner Club says it is in more than 48 cities. We are in three.\nIf you split your time between several cities, or you live somewhere we do\nnot run, it gives you far more places to sit down.",[12,520,521,524],{},[147,522,523],{},"You want to start this week."," Joining starts with a sign-up survey, and its\npublic pages describe no application for someone to review before you pay, so\nthere is no wait for a decision. If you know you want in, that is faster than\nour process.",[12,526,527,530,531,534],{},[147,528,529],{},"You would rather not install an app."," Its welcome page says you get a\ntext about the next dinner every other Thursday and reply YES or NO to it\n(",[19,532,353],{"href":351,"rel":533},[292],"), and billing sits in your Whop account.\nIf one more app on your phone is the thing that stops you going, that matters.",[12,536,537,540],{},[147,538,539],{},"You want a wider mix at the table."," It welcomes anyone with a business or\ncreative pursuits, including people with a job or still studying. If you are\nbuilding something on the side and want company doing it, that is an open\ndoor.",[12,542,543,546],{},[147,544,545],{},"You prefer Tuesdays."," It is a small thing, but a night that fits your week\nis the night you actually show up to.",[38,548,550],{"id":549},"where-founder-feast-may-suit-you-better","Where Founder Feast may suit you better",[12,552,553,556],{},[147,554,555],{},"You want a person to read your application."," Every Founder Feast\napplication is read by someone on the team before anyone is accepted. That is\nthe filter the rest of the product depends on.",[12,558,559,562],{},[147,560,561],{},"You want the table matched on what you are building."," We seat people by\nstage, industry and what they are trying to figure out this year, by hand. A\npre-seed founder and someone who just sold a company have different problems,\nand we try not to put them at the same table by accident.",[12,564,565,568,569,33],{},[147,566,567],{},"You want a fixed five."," Every table is set for five, which is small enough\nfor one conversation. We wrote about ",[19,570,572],{"href":571},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-five-founders-per-table","why five is the number",[12,574,575,578],{},[147,576,577],{},"You want to know who is coming."," You see the restaurant and your\ntablemates 24 hours before the dinner, in the app, so you can look people up\nand arrive knowing what to ask.",[12,580,581,584],{},[147,582,583],{},"You are in Vancouver and want to pay in Canadian dollars."," Vancouver\nmembership is $39.99 CAD a month.",[12,586,587,590],{},[147,588,589],{},"You would like to pay less by paying ahead."," The 3 month plan is $89.99 and\nthe 6 month plan is $119.99, which works out to about $30 and $20 a month.",[12,592,593,596],{},[147,594,595],{},"You want the conversation to carry on."," Your table keeps its own chat after\nthe night, and every other vetted member is in the directory and one message\naway, in all three cities.",[38,598,600],{"id":599},"what-each-costs-per-month-and-per-dinner","What each costs, per month and per dinner",[12,602,603],{},"Both clubs hold two dinner nights a month, roughly, so the per-dinner maths is simple. These use the prices each club published on 29 September 2026, before food, which you pay at the restaurant either way.",[12,605,606,607,610,611,614],{},"Entrepreneur Dinner Club lists $49 a month as its standard price (",[19,608,293],{"href":290,"rel":609},[292],"). At two dinners a month, that is about $24.50 a dinner. In Miami its site gives a range of $49 to $79 a month (",[19,612,293],{"href":290,"rel":613},[292],"). We did not find a prepaid plan on its public pages.",[12,616,617],{},"Founder Feast is $39.99 a month, CAD in Vancouver and USD in San Francisco\nand Los Angeles. Dinners are every other Thursday, so that is about $20 a\ndinner night if you go to each one. On the 6 month plan ($119.99), it is\nabout $10.",[12,619,620],{},"The price only matters if you go. A membership you use twice a month is cheap\nat either price. One you use once a quarter is expensive at both.",[38,622,624],{"id":623},"can-you-do-both","Can you do both?",[12,626,627],{},"Yes. The nights do not clash, Tuesday for one and Thursday for the other, and\nneither club's public terms asks you to be a member of only one. If you are in\nVancouver, San Francisco or Los Angeles and want more tables in your month,\nthere is no reason not to.",[38,629,631],{"id":630},"how-founder-feast-works","How Founder Feast works",[12,633,634,635,638],{},"You ",[19,636,637],{"href":130},"apply",", which takes about two minutes, and a person reads every\nanswer. Once you are accepted and a member, you pick a Thursday in the app and\ntake a seat. Twenty-four hours before the dinner you see the restaurant and\nwho is coming. You eat, talk and pay the restaurant for what you order. There\nis no pitching. Afterwards your table keeps talking in its own chat.",[12,640,641],{},"The dinner is the main event. Coffees, runs and hikes hosted by members are\nthere as well, as extras around it.",[12,643,644,645,648,649,651],{},"If you are comparing more than these two, our guide to ",[19,646,647],{"href":199},"what entrepreneur\ndinner clubs cost"," has a dated table of published\nprices, and ",[19,650,187],{"href":138},"\ncovers the dinner-with-strangers apps.",[38,653,143],{"id":142},[12,655,656,659],{},[147,657,658],{},"Is Founder Feast the same as Entrepreneur Dinner Club?","\nNo. They are separate companies with no connection to each other.\nEntrepreneur Dinner Club is run by Godspeed Holdings Inc., according to its\nterms of service. Founder Feast is its own club, with its own application,\napp and membership.",[12,661,662,665],{},[147,663,664],{},"Can I join both?","\nYes. Entrepreneur Dinner Club holds its dinners every other Tuesday and\nFounder Feast every other Thursday, so the nights do not clash. Each is\nbilled separately.",[12,667,668,671],{},[147,669,670],{},"Which cities overlap?","\nFounder Feast runs in Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Entrepreneur\nDinner Club's sign-up form lists Vancouver, SF and the Bay Area, and LA, along\nwith San Jose and Orange County. Its form also has a waitlist, so check with\nthem that your city is seating tables.",[38,673,178],{"id":177},[180,675,676,682,689],{},[183,677,678,681],{},[19,679,680],{"href":199},"Entrepreneur dinner club cost in 2026",", with the published prices of the clubs we checked.",[183,683,684,688],{},[19,685,687],{"href":686},"\u002Fblog\u002Fis-founder-feast-worth-it","Is Founder Feast worth it?",", the honest math.",[183,690,691,695],{},[19,692,694],{"href":693},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-happens-at-founder-feast","What happens at a Founder Feast dinner",", from the application to the chat afterwards.",{"title":203,"searchDepth":204,"depth":204,"links":697},[698,699,700,701,702,703,704,705],{"id":252,"depth":204,"text":253},{"id":511,"depth":204,"text":512},{"id":549,"depth":204,"text":550},{"id":599,"depth":204,"text":600},{"id":623,"depth":204,"text":624},{"id":630,"depth":204,"text":631},{"id":142,"depth":204,"text":143},{"id":177,"depth":204,"text":178},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Ffounder-feast-vs-entrepreneur-dinner-club","2026-09-29","Founder Feast and Entrepreneur Dinner Club side by side: price, who gets in, how tables are built, when you learn who is coming, and which cities overlap.",[710,712,715],{"q":658,"a":711},"No. They are separate companies with no connection to each other. Entrepreneur Dinner Club is run by Godspeed Holdings Inc., according to its terms of service. Founder Feast is its own club, with its own application, app and membership. Both are membership dinner clubs where you pay the restaurant for your own food.",{"q":713,"a":714},"Can I join both Founder Feast and Entrepreneur Dinner Club?","Yes. Nothing in either club's public terms stops you, and the nights do not clash: Entrepreneur Dinner Club says it holds dinners every other Tuesday, and Founder Feast seats its tables every other Thursday. Each membership is billed separately.",{"q":716,"a":717},"Which cities do Founder Feast and Entrepreneur Dinner Club share?","Founder Feast runs in Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Entrepreneur Dinner Club says it is in more than 48 cities, and its sign-up form lists Vancouver, SF and the Bay Area, and LA among them, along with San Jose and Orange County. Its form also offers a waitlist, so a listed city may not be seating tables yet. Check with them for your city.","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fdinner-table-candles.jpg",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffounder-feast-vs-entrepreneur-dinner-club",{"title":241,"description":708},"founder-feast-vs-entrepreneur-dinner-club","blog\u002Ffounder-feast-vs-entrepreneur-dinner-club","xqfgZ_x9xzHh0EqE6M47Kz-2rMexFoLBSkHEkBBblHU",{"id":726,"title":727,"about":6,"author":7,"body":728,"canonical":936,"city":6,"date":937,"description":938,"extension":217,"faq":939,"image":952,"meta":953,"navigation":231,"path":954,"seo":955,"slug":956,"stem":957,"tag":236,"updated":6,"__hash__":958},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-host-a-founder-dinner.md","How to Host a Founder Dinner That People Come Back To",{"type":9,"value":729,"toc":925},[730,733,736,739,743,746,749,752,755,758,762,765,768,774,777,780,783,787,790,793,796,799,802,806,809,812,815,818,821,825,828,831,834,837,841,844,847,850,853,857,860,863,866,874,877,879,885,891,897,903,905],[12,731,732],{},"Most founder dinners are just networking events with chairs. Twelve people at a long table, three conversations running in parallel, and everyone leaves having talked to the two people either side of them about nothing in particular.",[12,734,735],{},"The good ones look almost identical from the outside and are built on about five decisions that get made before anyone shows up. None of them are about the food.",[12,737,738],{},"I have sat at a lot of both. Here is what actually separates a dinner people ask you to run again from one they politely never mention.",[38,740,742],{"id":741},"pick-the-number-first-and-make-it-five","Pick the number first, and make it five",[12,744,745],{},"Everything else follows from this and almost nobody decides it deliberately.",[12,747,748],{},"Five is the largest group that can still hold one conversation. At six it begins to fracture under any noise. At eight it always splits into two tables that happen to share furniture, and the split is not clean, so people keep half-turning between conversations and following neither.",[12,750,751],{},"That matters because a founder dinner has exactly one product: the thing somebody says that they would not have said in public. That only happens in a single conversation where everyone is accountable to everyone. Split the table and you get small talk on both halves.",[12,753,754],{},"The pressure to go bigger is constant. Someone asks to bring a co-founder, someone forwards it to a friend, and eight feels more successful than five. It is not. If more people want in, run it twice. A second dinner costs you one more evening. A ruined dinner costs you the group.",[12,756,757],{},"Hold the number. It is the whole thing.",[38,759,761],{"id":760},"invite-for-the-mix-not-the-résumé","Invite for the mix, not the résumé",[12,763,764],{},"The instinct is to invite up. Get the most impressive founder who will say yes, then build around them.",[12,766,767],{},"That produces a bad dinner. A table with one person clearly senior to everyone else turns into an audience, and the four others spend the night asking questions instead of talking. You wanted a conversation and you booked a fireside chat.",[12,769,770,771],{},"What works is ",[147,772,773],{},"same stage, different industries, and mostly strangers.",[12,775,776],{},"Same stage means the problems rhyme. Two people at seed talking about a first sales hire is a real conversation. A Series B founder telling a pre-revenue founder about a first sales hire is a lecture, however kindly it is delivered.",[12,778,779],{},"Different industries means nobody is guarding anything. Put two founders from the same market at one table and both spend the evening being careful, which everyone can feel.",[12,781,782],{},"Mostly strangers is the one people resist. It feels safer to invite friends. But a table of people who already know each other defaults to catching up, and you will get forty minutes of gossip before anyone says anything about the work. One or two people who already know each other is fine and helps the room warm up. Five friends is a night out, which is lovely and is not this.",[38,784,786],{"id":785},"book-a-room-you-can-hear-in","Book a room you can hear in",[12,788,789],{},"This is where more dinners die than any other single cause, and it is entirely preventable.",[12,791,792],{},"The failure mode is picking on food. You choose the restaurant everyone is talking about, and it is talked about because it is busy, and busy means loud, and at seventy-five decibels a table of five is functionally three separate conversations. The food is excellent and nobody remembers anything anybody said.",[12,794,795],{},"Choose the room, not the kitchen. What you want is a corner, a back room, an early sitting, or a place with soft surfaces and space between tables. A very good neighbourhood restaurant on a Tuesday beats the city's best on a Friday, every time.",[12,797,798],{},"And call them. Do not book through the app. A two-minute phone call gets you \"we have a quiet table at the back\" in a way no booking widget ever will, and restaurants are noticeably more accommodating to a person who rings and says they are bringing five people who will order properly and be gone by nine thirty.",[12,800,801],{},"Ask directly: which table in the room is quietest, and can you hold it.",[38,803,805],{"id":804},"say-the-one-rule-out-loud","Say the one rule out loud",[12,807,808],{},"No pitching. Say it in the first two minutes, before the menus are collected.",[12,810,811],{},"It feels awkward to announce a rule to adults. Do it anyway, because founders arrive braced. Everyone at that table has been to an event where a stranger opened with a deck, and until someone says otherwise, they are all half-expecting it. Naming the rule takes ten seconds and visibly changes the posture of the table.",[12,813,814],{},"What it buys you is the honest register. With pitching off the table, people describe what is actually hard rather than the version they say on stage. Churn that will not come down. A co-founder conversation they are avoiding. A month that was flat. Those are the things everybody needs and nobody volunteers first.",[12,816,817],{},"It also protects the quiet person. Without a rule, a table drifts toward whoever is most comfortable talking about themselves, and the founder who came in unsure whether they belonged says nothing all night and does not come back.",[12,819,820],{},"One rule. Said early. It holds all night.",[38,822,824],{"id":823},"end-it-on-time","End it on time",[12,826,827],{},"Say when it ends when you invite people, and then end it.",[12,829,830],{},"Two and a half hours is plenty. Somewhere past that, the table thins, the energy drops, and the last forty-five minutes overwrite the good two hours in everyone's memory. People leave remembering the tired end rather than the part that worked.",[12,832,833],{},"Ending on time also solves the most common reason busy founders decline. An open-ended invitation reads as an unknown commitment, and someone with a young kid or an early flight will just say no. \"Seven to nine thirty\" gets a yes from people \"dinner sometime\" never reaches.",[12,835,836],{},"If the table wants to keep going, let them move to a bar. That is a different event they chose, and it is the best possible sign the dinner worked.",[38,838,840],{"id":839},"the-follow-up-decides-whether-there-is-a-second-one","The follow-up decides whether there is a second one",[12,842,843],{},"The dinner is not the product. The relationships afterwards are, and they need about ten minutes of your effort.",[12,845,846],{},"The next morning, send one message to all five with everyone's names and what they are building, one line each. That is it. It turns five people who met once into a group that can find each other, and it costs you the length of a coffee.",[12,848,849],{},"Do not build a Slack. Nobody needs another dead channel. If the group wants to keep talking they will, and the thing that makes that possible is simply having each other's names spelled correctly.",[12,851,852],{},"Then book the next one before enthusiasm decays. A dinner that happens once is a nice evening. A dinner that happens monthly is, after a year, one of the more valuable things in your professional life, and the only difference between the two is somebody sending a date.",[38,854,856],{"id":855},"what-it-costs","What it costs",[12,858,859],{},"Less than people assume, and the cost is not really money.",[12,861,862],{},"If everyone pays for what they order, hosting costs you a phone call and an evening. Splitting the bill at a founder dinner is completely normal and nobody thinks less of a host for it. If you want to cover the table, budget your city's mid-range restaurant price for five and expect to land above it once wine appears.",[12,864,865],{},"The real cost is the recurring organising. Picking the date, chasing the two people who have not replied, rebooking when someone drops out on the day. That is why most founder dinners happen twice and then quietly stop, and it has nothing to do with whether they were good.",[12,867,868,869,873],{},"That is the part ",[19,870,131],{"href":871,"rel":872},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com",[292]," takes off you. Five founders, one table, a restaurant we picked, matched on stage and industry, with the table and the venue revealed 24 hours before. No pitching, which is the rule above. Thursdays in Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and membership is $39.99 a month (CAD in Vancouver, USD in San Francisco and Los Angeles) covering every dinner you book. You pay the restaurant for what you eat, on the night.",[12,875,876],{},"If you would rather run your own, run your own. Everything above works whether or not we are involved, and the city is better for having more good tables in it.",[38,878,143],{"id":142},[12,880,881,884],{},[147,882,883],{},"Should I have a topic or a question for the table?","\nOne question in your back pocket for a lull, not an agenda. Something like \"what is the thing you are avoiding this week\" works. A structured discussion turns dinner into a workshop, which is a different and worse event.",[12,886,887,890],{},[147,888,889],{},"What if someone cancels on the day?","\nGo with four. Do not scramble for a replacement who does not fit the mix, because one wrong person costs more than one empty chair.",[12,892,893,896],{},[147,894,895],{},"Should I invite investors?","\nNot to a founder table. The register changes the moment there is someone in the room who could write a cheque, however lovely they are. Run a separate dinner for that if you want one.",[12,898,899,902],{},[147,900,901],{},"How often should it happen?","\nMonthly is the sweet spot. Weekly is more than most people can sustain as an organiser, and quarterly is too infrequent for people to remember each other.",[38,904,178],{"id":177},[180,906,907,913,919],{},[183,908,909,912],{},[19,910,911],{"href":571},"Why five founders per table",", the longer version of the number argument.",[183,914,915,33],{},[19,916,918],{"href":917},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-founder-dinners-work","Why founder dinners work",[183,920,921,33],{},[19,922,924],{"href":923},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffounder-feast-vs-networking-events","Founder dinners vs networking events",{"title":203,"searchDepth":204,"depth":204,"links":926},[927,928,929,930,931,932,933,934,935],{"id":741,"depth":204,"text":742},{"id":760,"depth":204,"text":761},{"id":785,"depth":204,"text":786},{"id":804,"depth":204,"text":805},{"id":823,"depth":204,"text":824},{"id":839,"depth":204,"text":840},{"id":855,"depth":204,"text":856},{"id":142,"depth":204,"text":143},{"id":177,"depth":204,"text":178},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-host-a-founder-dinner","2026-09-08","The five decisions that make or break a founder dinner: the number, the mix, the room, the one rule, and the ending. A practical guide to hosting your own table.",[940,943,946,949],{"q":941,"a":942},"How many people should be at a founder dinner?","Five including you. Five is the largest group that can still hold a single conversation across a table. At six it starts to split, at eight it always splits, and once it splits everyone hears half a dinner and nobody gets the one thing they came for. If more people want in than you have seats, run it again rather than adding chairs.",{"q":944,"a":945},"Who should I invite to a founder dinner?","Founders at roughly the same stage, from different industries, who do not already know each other. Same stage means the problems rhyme and nobody is condescending. Different industries means nobody is competitive and the advice is fresh. Strangers matter more than people expect, because a table of existing friends defaults to catching up instead of talking about the work.",{"q":947,"a":948},"What is the one rule at a founder dinner?","No pitching. Say it out loud in the first two minutes, before anyone has ordered. Founders arrive braced to be sold to, and naming the rule visibly relaxes the table. It is the difference between people describing what is actually hard and people performing a version of their company.",{"q":950,"a":951},"How much does it cost to host a founder dinner?","If everyone pays for their own meal, nothing but your time and the phone call to book. If you cover the table, budget on your city's mid-range restaurant price for five, and expect it to land higher than you planned once wine is involved. Splitting the bill is completely normal and nobody thinks less of a host for it.","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-host-a-founder-dinner.jpg",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-host-a-founder-dinner",{"title":727,"description":938},"how-to-host-a-founder-dinner","blog\u002Fhow-to-host-a-founder-dinner","Gug4TsMlX5oX1Q5440ROaTNOmHAe-HN5NUO3GjroJG0",{"id":960,"title":961,"about":6,"author":7,"body":962,"canonical":1358,"city":6,"date":1359,"description":1360,"extension":217,"faq":1361,"image":1373,"meta":1374,"navigation":231,"path":199,"seo":1375,"slug":1376,"stem":1377,"tag":236,"updated":215,"__hash__":1378},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ffounder-dinner-club.md","Entrepreneur Dinner Club Cost in 2026: What Founder Dinner Clubs Charge",{"type":9,"value":963,"toc":1340},[964,967,970,974,977,1086,1092,1096,1099,1105,1111,1114,1118,1121,1128,1132,1135,1138,1146,1155,1161,1165,1168,1173,1176,1180,1183,1187,1190,1194,1202,1206,1209,1227,1233,1237,1240,1243,1254,1273,1277,1280,1283,1286,1293,1295,1301,1306,1312,1322,1324],[12,965,966],{},"An entrepreneur dinner club costs between about $30 and $50 a month on the\nmembership model, which is how most clubs that publish a price charge today,\nand you pay the restaurant for your own food on top. Founder Feast is $39.99 a\nmonth, in CAD in Vancouver and in USD in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and it\ncovers a seat at every dinner you book.",[12,968,969],{},"The table below has the published prices we could check, dated, with links.\nThe rest of this post is what a founder dinner club is, what separates a good\none from a mailing list with a restaurant attached, and how we run ours.",[38,971,973],{"id":972},"what-entrepreneur-dinner-clubs-charge-in-2026","What entrepreneur dinner clubs charge in 2026",[12,975,976],{},"Checked on 2026-09-29, from each club's own public pages. Prices change,\nso follow the link before you rely on any of them. We only list a price a club\npublishes itself; where a club does not publish one, it is not here.",[255,978,979,997],{},[258,980,981],{},[261,982,983,986,989,992,995],{},[264,984,985],{},"Club",[264,987,988],{},"Model",[264,990,991],{},"Published price",[264,993,994],{},"Dinners",[264,996,393],{},[272,998,999,1014,1028,1045,1065],{},[261,1000,1001,1004,1007,1010,1012],{},[277,1002,1003],{},"Founder Feast, Vancouver",[277,1005,1006],{},"Membership",[277,1008,1009],{},"$39.99 CAD a month, or $89.99 CAD for 3 months, or $119.99 CAD for 6 months",[277,1011,364],{},[277,1013,396],{},[261,1015,1016,1019,1021,1024,1026],{},[277,1017,1018],{},"Founder Feast, San Francisco and Los Angeles",[277,1020,1006],{},[277,1022,1023],{},"$39.99 USD a month, or $89.99 USD for 3 months, or $119.99 USD for 6 months",[277,1025,364],{},[277,1027,396],{},[261,1029,1030,1032,1034,1040,1043],{},[277,1031,270],{},[277,1033,1006],{},[277,1035,1036,1037,300],{},"US$49 a month standard, US$49 to US$79 in Miami (",[19,1038,293],{"href":290,"rel":1039},[292],[277,1041,1042],{},"Two a month, every other Tuesday, 7pm",[277,1044,396],{},[261,1046,1047,1050,1052,1060,1063],{},[277,1048,1049],{},"Inner Table Club",[277,1051,1006],{},[277,1053,1054,1055,300],{},"$44.99 a month, with a founding rate of $39.99, or $29.99 in its newest cities (",[19,1056,1059],{"href":1057,"rel":1058},"https:\u002F\u002Finnertableclub.com\u002F",[292],"innertableclub.com",[277,1061,1062],{},"Two a month, one Wednesday and one Thursday",[277,1064,396],{},[261,1066,1067,1070,1072,1080,1083],{},[277,1068,1069],{},"LBW Entrepreneur Dinner Club, Houston",[277,1071,1006],{},[277,1073,1074,1075,300],{},"$49 a month (",[19,1076,1079],{"href":1077,"rel":1078},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.lbwdinner.club\u002F",[292],"lbwdinner.club",[277,1081,1082],{},"Two a month",[277,1084,1085],{},"Not stated on the page",[12,1087,1088,1089,33],{},"Founder Feast is a separate company from every other club in that table, and\nwe have no connection to any of them. If you are weighing Founder Feast\nagainst the best-known of them, we wrote ",[19,1090,1091],{"href":720},"an honest comparison with\nEntrepreneur Dinner Club",[38,1093,1095],{"id":1094},"per-seat-or-membership-the-two-pricing-models","Per-seat or membership: the two pricing models",[12,1097,1098],{},"Two pricing models exist, and the difference matters more than the number.",[12,1100,1101,1104],{},[147,1102,1103],{},"Per-seat pricing"," charges for every dinner you attend. We know it from the\ninside: a single Founder Feast seat used to cost $200, and the food was on\ntop. It worked for one great night and it worked against the thing a dinner\nclub is for, which is coming back. At $200 a seat, showing up twice a month is\n$400 before food, so it was an occasional night by design, and a table that\nmeets once never gets to know itself.",[12,1106,1107,1110],{},[147,1108,1109],{},"Membership pricing"," charges a flat fee that covers the seat, and you pay\nthe restaurant for what you eat and drink, on the night, like any dinner with\nfriends. Founder Feast is $39.99 a month (CAD in Vancouver, USD in San\nFrancisco and Los Angeles), and it covers every dinner you book, in all three\ncities. There is no per-seat charge and no charge for the nights you skip. The\n3 month plan is $89.99 and the 6 month plan is $119.99, which brings the\nmonthly cost down to about $30 and $20.",[12,1112,1113],{},"The pattern is simple enough: per-seat clubs make money when you show up once,\nmembership clubs make money when you keep showing up. Pick the one whose\nincentives point the same way as yours.",[38,1115,1117],{"id":1116},"is-an-entrepreneur-dinner-club-worth-it","Is an entrepreneur dinner club worth it?",[12,1119,1120],{},"Yes, if two things are true: you will go at least twice a month, and the club\ncontrols who sits at your table. At two dinners a month, $39.99 works out to\nabout $20 a dinner before food, and the people across from you were chosen\nrather than whoever bought a ticket.",[12,1122,1123,1124,1127],{},"No, if you want to meet forty people in one night, if you are there to pitch,\nor if you will go once a quarter. Then you are paying a monthly fee for nights\nyou skip, and a per-event ticket or a good mixer suits you better. We wrote out\n",[19,1125,1126],{"href":686},"the honest math on Founder Feast"," if you want\nto check it against your own calendar.",[38,1129,1131],{"id":1130},"what-a-founder-dinner-club-actually-is","What a founder dinner club actually is",[12,1133,1134],{},"A founder dinner club is a membership that seats founders and investors at a\nsmall, curated dinner table on a fixed night. Someone at the club reads your\napplication, decides who you should sit beside and why, books the restaurant,\nand tells you who is coming before you walk in. You pay for the club, not for\na seat in a big room.",[12,1136,1137],{},"The phrase gets used for three very different things, so it helps to be\nprecise.",[12,1139,1140,1143,1144,33],{},[147,1141,1142],{},"Supper club apps"," match strangers for dinner from a personality quiz.\nThey are good at what they do, which is getting people who would never meet\nto share a meal. They are not built around what you are working on, and the\ntable can be a nurse, a student and a retiree, which is a lovely evening and\na useless one if you came to talk about your Series A. We wrote a fuller\ncomparison in ",[19,1145,187],{"href":138},[12,1147,1148,1151,1152,33],{},[147,1149,1150],{},"Networking events with food"," are the opposite problem. Everyone in the\nroom is a founder, but there are eighty of them, the format is standing and\nscanning, and the follow-up rate after a mixer is close to nothing. We have\nwritten about ",[19,1153,1154],{"href":917},"why founder dinners beat networking events on\nfollow-up",[12,1156,1157,1160],{},[147,1158,1159],{},"A founder dinner club"," is the narrow thing in the middle. Small table,\neveryone vetted, a host who chose the guest list on purpose, a fixed night\nso it becomes a habit rather than an event, and something that carries the\nconversation past dessert.",[38,1162,1164],{"id":1163},"the-four-things-that-separate-a-good-one","The four things that separate a good one",[12,1166,1167],{},"Any club can put \"curated\" on a landing page. These are the questions that\ntell you whether the word is doing any work.",[1169,1170,1172],"h3",{"id":1171},"_1-does-a-person-read-the-applications","1. Does a person read the applications?",[12,1174,1175],{},"Vetting is the product. If the answer is a form that auto-approves anyone\nwith a work email, the table is a lottery. Ask who reads the applications\nand what they are looking for. At Founder Feast the honest answer is that we\nlook for people who make a table better: founders and investors first, and\nalongside them the doctors, professors, athletes and artists who keep a\nfounder-only room from talking about fundraising all night.",[1169,1177,1179],{"id":1178},"_2-how-are-the-tables-matched","2. How are the tables matched?",[12,1181,1182],{},"\"By interest\" is not an answer. The useful axes are stage (a pre-seed founder\nand a founder who just sold have different problems this year), industry\n(close enough to be useful, far enough to be interesting), and what each\nperson is trying to figure out right now. A good club asks you the last one\non the form and uses it.",[1169,1184,1186],{"id":1185},"_3-when-do-you-learn-who-is-coming","3. When do you learn who is coming?",[12,1188,1189],{},"A club that tells you the guest list at the door has not matched anything;\nit has booked a table. A club that tells you weeks ahead has given the\ntable away to the calendar, because half the people will have moved on to\nsomething else by then. We settled on 24 hours before the night: the\nrestaurant and the people, together, in the app, and never sooner.",[1169,1191,1193],{"id":1192},"_4-what-happens-the-day-after","4. What happens the day after?",[12,1195,1196,1197,1201],{},"The dinner is the main event, but a dinner club that ends at the bill is a\nrestaurant with extra steps. The things that make the membership worth\nkeeping are what happens between dinners: a way to reach the people you\nmet, and a reason to see them again. In our case that is the table's own\nchat, which keeps going after the bill, a member directory and chat in\n",[19,1198,1200],{"href":1199},"\u002Fmobile","the app",", and the next Thursday, two weeks out.",[38,1203,1205],{"id":1204},"questions-to-ask-before-you-join-any-of-them","Questions to ask before you join any of them",[12,1207,1208],{},"If you are comparing clubs, these five questions will get you further than\nany landing page.",[1210,1211,1212,1215,1218,1221,1224],"ol",{},[183,1213,1214],{},"Who reads the applications, and what do they turn down?",[183,1216,1217],{},"How is my table chosen, and can I say who I want to sit beside?",[183,1219,1220],{},"When do I find out who is coming?",[183,1222,1223],{},"What does the price cover, and what do I pay on the night?",[183,1225,1226],{},"What exists between dinners, and can I reach the people I met?",[12,1228,1229,1230,33],{},"If a club cannot answer all five in a sentence each, the curation is a\nword, not a process. We put Founder Feast and Entrepreneur Dinner Club through\nmost of those questions side by side in ",[19,1231,1232],{"href":720},"our comparison of the two\nclubs",[38,1234,1236],{"id":1235},"how-founder-feast-runs-its-dinner-club","How Founder Feast runs its dinner club",[12,1238,1239],{},"We are a founder dinner club in Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles,\nand anyone can apply. This is the whole loop, in the order you will meet it.",[12,1241,1242],{},"You apply, which takes two minutes, and a person reads every answer. Once\nyou are in, you pick a Thursday in the app and take a seat; membership\ncovers every seat you take. Twenty-four hours before the night we confirm\nthe restaurant and show you who is coming, matched by stage, industry and\nwhat you are trying to figure out this year. You show up, eat well and\ntalk. There is no pitching and no name tags, and you pay the restaurant for\nwhat you eat and drink. Afterwards your table keeps talking in its own chat,\nand you can reach every other vetted member in the app, in all three cities.",[12,1244,1245,1246,1250,1251,33],{},"The longer version, with the questions people ask before they apply, is on\n",[19,1247,1249],{"href":1248},"\u002Fhow-it-works","how it works",". If you want to see a night from the inside\nfirst, read ",[19,1252,1253],{"href":693},"what happens at a Founder Feast dinner",[12,1255,1256,1257,23,1260,1263,1264,1267,1268,1272],{},"Each city has its own page with the neighbourhoods we book in:\n",[19,1258,22],{"href":1259},"\u002Fvancouver",[19,1261,27],{"href":1262},"\u002Fsan-francisco"," and\n",[19,1265,32],{"href":1266},"\u002Flos-angeles",". One membership works in all three, which\nmatters more than it sounds once you start flying between them. If San\nFrancisco is your city and you are weighing more than one club, our guide to\n",[19,1269,1271],{"href":1270},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-dinner-clubs-san-francisco","the best dinner clubs in San Francisco","\nsets Founder Feast beside Timeleft, supper clubs and member communities.",[38,1274,1276],{"id":1275},"who-a-founder-dinner-club-is-not-for","Who a founder dinner club is not for",[12,1278,1279],{},"It is not for anyone who wants a big room. If your goal is to meet forty\npeople in one night, a mixer does that better, and we would rather say so\nthan seat you at a table that feels small to you.",[12,1281,1282],{},"It is not for pitching. Nobody at the table is there to be sold to, and the\nfastest way to lose the room is to try.",[12,1284,1285],{},"And it is not for a single night. A club is a rhythm. The members who get\nthe most out of ours are the ones who treat Thursday as a standing\nreservation with people they have not met yet.",[12,1287,1288,1289,1292],{},"If that sounds like the right shape, ",[19,1290,1291],{"href":130},"apply for a seat",". A person\nwill read it.",[38,1294,143],{"id":142},[12,1296,1297,1300],{},[147,1298,1299],{},"How much does an entrepreneur dinner club cost?","\nOn the membership model, most clubs that publish a price charge between about\n$30 and $50 a month, and you pay the restaurant for your food. Founder Feast is\n$39.99 a month, CAD in Vancouver and USD in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The\ndated table above has the other published prices, with links.",[12,1302,1303,1305],{},[147,1304,1117],{},"\nIf you will go at least twice a month and the club picks the table, yes: about\n$20 a dinner before food at our monthly price. If you want a big room or will\ngo rarely, a per-event ticket suits you better.",[12,1307,1308,1311],{},[147,1309,1310],{},"How is a founder dinner club different from a networking event?","\nA networking event sells a room; a dinner club sells the table. Someone has\nalready decided who you sit beside and why, the group is small enough for one\nconversation, and nobody is there to pitch.",[12,1313,1314,1317,1318,1321],{},[147,1315,1316],{},"How do I join Founder Feast?","\nApply on ",[19,1319,1320],{"href":130},"founderfeast.com",". The form takes two minutes and a person\nreads every answer. Once you are in, you pick a Thursday in the app, and 24\nhours before the dinner you see the restaurant and who is coming.",[38,1323,178],{"id":177},[180,1325,1326,1331,1336],{},[183,1327,1328],{},[19,1329,1330],{"href":720},"Founder Feast vs Entrepreneur Dinner Club: an honest comparison",[183,1332,1333],{},[19,1334,1335],{"href":1270},"The best dinner clubs in San Francisco, and what each one is for",[183,1337,1338],{},[19,1339,687],{"href":686},{"title":203,"searchDepth":204,"depth":204,"links":1341},[1342,1343,1344,1345,1346,1353,1354,1355,1356,1357],{"id":972,"depth":204,"text":973},{"id":1094,"depth":204,"text":1095},{"id":1116,"depth":204,"text":1117},{"id":1130,"depth":204,"text":1131},{"id":1163,"depth":204,"text":1164,"children":1347},[1348,1350,1351,1352],{"id":1171,"depth":1349,"text":1172},3,{"id":1178,"depth":1349,"text":1179},{"id":1185,"depth":1349,"text":1186},{"id":1192,"depth":1349,"text":1193},{"id":1204,"depth":204,"text":1205},{"id":1235,"depth":204,"text":1236},{"id":1275,"depth":204,"text":1276},{"id":142,"depth":204,"text":143},{"id":177,"depth":204,"text":178},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Ffounder-dinner-club","2026-09-05","What an entrepreneur dinner club costs in 2026: per-seat vs membership pricing, Founder Feast by city, and other clubs' published prices, checked 29 September 2026.",[1362,1364,1366,1369,1371],{"q":1299,"a":1363},"Most membership dinner clubs that publish a price charge between about $30 and $50 a month, and the food is extra: you pay the restaurant on the night. On 29 September 2026, Founder Feast was $39.99 a month (CAD in Vancouver, USD in San Francisco and Los Angeles), Entrepreneur Dinner Club (entrepreneurdinner.club) listed US$49 a month as standard, and Inner Table Club (innertableclub.com) listed $44.99 a month with a founding rate below that. Per-seat clubs charge for each dinner instead.",{"q":1117,"a":1365},"It is worth it if you will go at least twice a month and the club controls who sits at the table. At two dinners a month, a $39.99 membership works out to about $20 a dinner before food, and the people at the table were chosen rather than whoever bought a ticket. It is not worth it if you want a big room, want to pitch, or will only go once a quarter, because then you are paying for nights you skip.",{"q":1367,"a":1368},"What is a founder dinner club?","A founder dinner club is a membership that seats founders and investors at a small, curated dinner table on a fixed night. The club reads applications, picks who sits together by stage, industry and goals, books the restaurant, and tells members who is coming before the night. Members pay for the club, not for a seat at a big event.",{"q":1310,"a":1370},"A networking event sells a room; a dinner club sells the table. At a dinner club someone has already decided who you sit beside and why, the group is small enough for one conversation, and nobody is there to pitch. At a networking event you do that work yourself, standing up, with a drink in one hand.",{"q":1316,"a":1372},"Apply on founderfeast.com. The form takes two minutes and a person reads every answer. Once you are in, you pick a Thursday in the app, and 24 hours before the dinner you see the restaurant and who is coming.","\u002Fimages\u002F2.jpeg",{},{"title":961,"description":1360},"founder-dinner-club","blog\u002Ffounder-dinner-club","YOO_9nldQzX_oIhKXlfKbaoXLUSo-qVJZiD8D0hE9lI"]