Verification is necessary but not sufficient. The platform does its share of the work — identity review, dietary disclosure, address-sharing rules — but the room is yours to read.
Before you go
- Tell someone where you are going and roughly when you expect to be home. Share the cook's display name and neighborhood, not their address.
- If anything in the conversation has felt off, trust that and cancel. The platform does not penalize either side for canceling a confirmed meal.
- Re-read the dietary disclosure on the event. Severe allergies are not something to negotiate.
When you arrive
- You can leave at any time. Nobody on this platform owes anyone a stay-the-whole-meal commitment.
- The cook's home is theirs. If they ask you not to enter a room or to remove your shoes or to wash your hands, do it.
- If something happens that you would want reported, use the report button on the cook's profile when you get home. Admin reviews every report by hand.
If you are hosting
- You can decline an applicant for any reason or no reason. The platform's rejection flow lets you reject silently if that is easier.
- You can block someone from a specific event without adding them to your global never-dine list.
- If a guest's behavior is the problem and not just the fit, report them. We'd rather see a report once than watch the pattern repeat.
Allergens
Severe allergies are a hard block on the platform's side; applying for an event that contains a severe-allergen disclosure is disabled by default. If an organizer chooses to override the block, both sides will see an acknowledgment. Allergens are not a thing to be polite about.