Status Social for dinner parties

One link for the whole dinner party

Invite the table, settle the date, find out who cannot eat what, know your headcount before you shop - then split the bill and swap photos while the evening is still warm.

Updated 26 August 20261 min read
In short

A great dinner party is four small wins in a row: a date people actually agree, dietary answers before you plan the menu, a headcount you can shop for and money sorted before it gets weird. Status Social keeps all four on the same event, so the table you invited is the list you cook for and the group you split with.

The four places it wobbles

MomentHow it usually failsOn one event
Picking the dateSix people reply “either works for me” and nobody decides.Options with a deadline, then a date the host confirms.
Dietary requirementsOne person mentions coeliac disease in a chat two weeks before you shop.Asked at invitation time, kept with the guest.
The headcountYou shop for eight and six arrive, or the reverse.A real yes or no per person, not a count of thumbs-up.
The moneySomeone fronts £260 and spends a fortnight asking for it back.Costs recorded against the people who shared them.

Good for

  • Dinner at home for six to twelve
  • Restaurant birthdays where one card pays
  • Supper clubs and rotating hosts
  • Potlucks, where who brings what matters
  • Long-planned celebration meals

Before you create anything

Our dinner party planning guide has the quantities - wine, meat, bread, cheese, per person and scaled for six, eight and ten - plus a countdown and the timing mistakes worth avoiding. It is useful whether or not you use the app.

Continue planning

Dinner party planning: from invitation to settled bill

How much of everything to buy per person, a countdown that works, how to ask about dietary requirements, and the timings that ruin otherwise good evenings.

 How to split expenses after a group dinner

Four ways to split a restaurant bill, a worked example with real numbers, how to handle service and no-shows and the messages to send afterwards.

 Free tool Dinner bill splitter

The expense tracker from a Status Social event, free in your browser. Add each cost, who paid and who shared it - and get a live summary of who owes whom.

Take the plan out of the group chat

Beautiful event invites and planning - invite guests, choose a date, split expenses and share photos.

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