San Francisco · Thursdays

Dinner with five strangers. Bring a friend.

Every Thursday we seat you at a table of six in your neighborhood. You can bring one friend, so showing up takes no courage — and backing out is genuinely awkward. $19/month, first table $5.

84%Seats filled without a rescue text

2.4×Show-up rate vs. solo seating

61%Members back within 3 weeks

Haight · 4 confirmed · 2 seats held for you and a friend

Table #114 · matched Monday 9:02am

Your Thursday table

Six people, one bar, two hours. We picked the room around what you all already do on weeknights.

23Jul

The Alembic · Upper Haight

7:30pm · back room booth · 12 min walk from you

Bring a friend

Priya is on your +1 list from the Mission run club.

$5 first table · charged Thursday morning

Why this table

The concierge matched on weeknight behavior, not interests you typed once.

Four of you are within a 15-minute walk — nobody has to cross the city on a school night.
Three run with Thursday-night clubs, so 7:30pm is already blocked out.
Nobody at this table has met before, and no two of you work at the same company.
Two members brought a +1 last time and both came back — high show-up signal.

If someone bails

The concierge backfills from the Haight waitlist until 4pm Thursday. Below four confirmed, the table moves to next week and nobody is charged.

SMS · +1 (415) 555-0148

The concierge is the product

Matching, confirmations, venue swaps, day-of coordination and next week's table all live in one text thread. No app to open.

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replies in ~40 seconds

What this thread replaced

Grouper ran this with about 30 people. Every line below was a human job in 2013.

Matching — 6,200 members scored against tonight's inventory in under a second.
Confirmation chasing — two nudges, then the seat is released to the waitlist.
Rescue — a bail at 5pm is backfilled before anyone else notices.
Post-event — one question Friday morning, which feeds next week's match.

Cost per table

$0.31 in model calls, versus roughly $14 of member-experience labor at Grouper's headcount.

Waitlist by neighborhood

We only open a neighborhood when it can fill weekly

A table needs six people who can walk there. Until a neighborhood clears 80%, it stays on the waitlist — thin inventory is what killed the original.

Outer Sunset has 9 people waiting No table yet — we need 24 before Thursdays run out there. Join and you'll be in the first cohort.