The pricing engine
Tell it about the dinner. It recommends a price and shows its work — your margin, the guest's value, and the room's gross — on one slider. Bands are set by format and by what a guest actually gets; the benchmark is simple: at $55 a person, a Houston club showdown served tapas from eight chefs with wine included. Value should read at a glance.
$75 per seat
You keep
$41 per seat — after food at 30% and the platform share at 15%. Profitable on purpose, shown before you cook.
The guest gets
4 courses · drinks included — $75 for the full table story.
The room grosses
$900 at 12 seats — small room, sold out, waitlist is the overflow.
AI Dinner Builder — from this season's farms
Tell it who's eating and what lines can't be crossed. The builder plans the menu from the house recipe shelf and the farms in season — allergies are a hard filter, applied before anything is suggested, never after — and the vegan and vegetarian lines are held exactly the same way: every dish is checked against its own recipe record before it can appear. The builder also remembers what it has served you lately and deals fresh dishes first, so the menu doesn't repeat itself. No invented dishes, no invented prices: if the shelf can't hold a line you set, it will say so instead of guessing.
Your menu
One honest note on price: the builder never quotes one. When a household books, the final price follows the house costing check — the farm's numbers, the ingredients, and the cook's time — before anything is confirmed.
How the builder runs, from January 5
1 · You describe it
Your words in — a polished listing description and a recommended price out, with the reasoning in plain language next to the slider. No blank-page pricing, no guessing.
2 · It lists itself
Confirm the price and the platform creates your Eventbrite event under our org — small room by default (dinners seat 12), seats counting down live on the platform.
3 · It fills itself
Ads for your dinner run automatically — Eventbrite, Meta, Google — out of a marketing pool with limits and profitability guardrails set in advance. You cook; the room fills.
Founding chefs claim their practice now — the founding fee covers the first month, the first three households are free, and the builder opens with your practice on January 5. Event planners: claim the same way, and bring your dinners with you.