How to grow your payments app with supper clubs and pop-up restaurants
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Supper clubs and pop-up restaurants serve set menus for a fixed number of guests, in the host's home, a café after hours or a borrowed kitchen. Hosts sell tickets ahead through social media, buy ingredients once they know numbers and sometimes sell drinks or extras on the night. Tickets need paying ahead, no-shows cost money and payments on the night need to be quick. A payments app that sells tickets by link and takes card payments on the night can win these hosts, and every guest who pays sees your app.
Talk to supper club and pop-up hosts
Ask local hosts:
- How do guests book and pay today?
- How many no-shows do you get?
- When do you buy ingredients?
- Do you sell drinks or extras on the night?
Sell tickets by link
A ticket link shared on social media lets guests pay when they book, so the host knows how many are coming before buying food.
Take payments on the night
Drinks, extra courses or a cookbook can be paid for with a quick tap on the night, without the host handling cash.
Grow through the food scene
Supper club hosts often work as private chefs or caterers too, and borrow space from cafés. One host on your app can introduce the others.
Build it
Create your own financial platform.
Pick a template, name it, brand it, preview every page before you pay. Your brand, your users, your fees.
Build my platform →Questions people ask
What about personal chefs?
The personal chefs guide covers cooking in clients' homes for dinners, parties and weekly meal prep, with deposits and final payments.
Personal chefs →What about caterers?
The caterers guide covers taking deposits for events, buying food up front and chasing final payments.
Caterers →Can I call it a bank?
In most countries "bank" is a protected word you can only use with a banking licence. Call it an account, a wallet, an app or a platform. The accounts and payments behind a SendPay Business platform are powered by licensed partners.
Is there a step-by-step plan I can follow?
Yes. The free launch checklist takes you from picking your people and naming your app to setting fees, going live and winning your first ten customers.
Digital bank app launch checklist →How do I start?
Pick a template, name it and preview every page before you pay. Your platform can be live on your own domain within 24 hours of confirmation.
Build my platform →Read next
This guide is general information, not legal or financial advice. SendPay Business is a technology company, not a bank, and does not take deposits; regulated services on the platforms are provided by licensed partners. PayPal, Patreon and Substack are named as reference points only and are not affiliated with SendPay Business.