Dine With Me for Teams — A New Way for Colleagues to Connect

Team building is one of the hardest things to get right. HR leaders know the feeling: you plan an off-site, book a venue, brief a facilitator, and at the end of the day people go home with a branded water bottle and a vague sense that they did something together. The real connection — the kind that changes how colleagues feel about each other — is harder to engineer.

We think there’s a simpler way. Today we’re excited to announce a new private programme built specifically for companies.

A New Kind of Team Building

Over the last few years, a quiet shift has been happening in how people connect. More people are cooking at home, more people are hosting each other, and more people are discovering that a shared meal creates something that no workshop can manufacture. It’s happening outside of work — and we think it belongs inside of work too.

Cooking a meal for colleagues creates a kind of connection that icebreakers simply can’t touch. There’s a vulnerability to it. You’re inviting people into something you made, with your own hands, for them. And when you sit down together and taste it — somewhere between the first bite and the last laugh — something shifts. Titles fade. Humour arrives. The team becomes something closer to a community.

The best connections happen at the table. Dine With Me for Teams brings that experience into your company.

Introducing Dine With Me for Teams

Dine With Me for Teams is our new private programme for companies, HR departments, and People Ops teams. It’s a structured but gentle way for colleagues to connect over real meals — at home, at their own pace, inside a dedicated private space that never appears on our public site.

Here’s what’s included:

• A private branded workspace — styled with your colours and logo, visible only to your colleagues
• Enterprise essentials — SSO, GDPR compliance, full data export on request
• Thoughtful matchmaking — small dinners of six, cross-department mixing, flexible scheduling
• Meaningful reporting — participation, cross-team connection, engagement lift, onboarding impact

Why It Works

The model is simple. Colleagues are matched into small groups of six. Over a season of a few weeks, each person hosts one dinner and attends the others. Everyone cooks once. Everyone is served five times. And by the end, something has happened that a PowerPoint retrospective could never capture.

Six is the magic number. It’s the size of a dinner table, the limit of a real conversation, and the point where every voice gets heard. No one sits at the edge wondering when it will be over. Everyone is part of the evening.

And because everyone hosts, something else happens: titles fade. The senior engineer cooks for the intern. The intern cooks for the CEO. The remote colleague finally meets the office colleague — and makes them dinner. You can’t fake that kind of equalising moment, and you can’t schedule it into an off-site. It just happens when people take turns at the stove.

Who It's For

The programme works especially well for:

• People Ops and HR leaders who want to move beyond icebreakers and off-sites and offer something their people will actually talk about
• Learning and development teams looking for experiences that build real relationships, not just knowledge
• Remote-first and hybrid companies where colleagues don’t meet naturally and need structured reasons to connect
• Companies onboarding new hires who want new joiners to mix with veterans from day one

If any of those sound like your team, we’d love to hear from you.

Start a Conversation

The programme is live today. Visit the teams page and share a little about your team. We’ll get back within 48 hours to explore what a pilot could look like — sized to your team, your calendar, and your budget.

We’re also announcing a parallel programme for food, drink, and lifestyle brands that want to partner with us. If you’re thinking from the brand side, read our announcement for brands.

And if this is your first time hearing about us, our piece on why dinner competitions bring people together is the best place to understand what we care about and why.