“Can a Stripe-powered, payments-monetised POS win the complex multi-vendor F&B segment (food halls, festivals, theatres) that generic restaurant POS wasn't built for?”
Dines started in 2016 as a consumer-facing food ordering app for pubs, restaurants and cafés, then pivoted to become a full hospitality POS operating system focused on complex, multi-vendor venues — food halls, festivals, theatres and stadiums. The commercial model is unusual: Dines gives the software and support away for free and monetises entirely on payment processing spread over Stripe, making the payments layer the whole business rather than an add-on.
Dines processes payments through Stripe and Stripe Terminal.
Dines is founded in 2016 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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