Terms of Service

Table for Forty is a marketplace where restaurants and other venues (each, a "Venue") list private dining rooms, event spaces, patios, buyouts and off-hours availability (each, a "Space"), and where guests ("you") can inquire about and hold those Spaces for an event.

The service is operated by Official Food Group LLC. You can reach us at noah@officialfoodgroup.com.

You do not need an account to use Table for Forty as a guest. Because there is no sign-up step, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy by doing any of the following:

• using or browsing the site;
• submitting an inquiry for a Space; or
• paying a deposit through a payment link we send you.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the site and do not submit an inquiry. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company or another organization, you confirm that you are authorized to bind it, and "you" means that organization.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract to submit an inquiry or pay a deposit.

We are a booking intermediary. The Venue — not us — provides the space, the food and beverage, the staff and everything else that happens at your event. We provide the listing, pass your inquiry to the Venue, carry the messages between you, and collect the deposit on the Venue's behalf.

The agreement for your event is between you and the Venue. We are not a party to it, we do not control the Venue, and we are not the Venue's agent for anything beyond collecting and refunding deposits as described in these Terms. We do not own, operate, manage or inspect any Space.

Venues write their own listings. Capacities, food and beverage minimums, room fees, amenities, availability windows, photographs and descriptions are supplied by the Venue, and we do not independently verify them. Availability shown on a listing is an indication, not a reservation.

A "Verified" badge means only that we have confirmed that the business exists and that we reached the person who claims to represent it. It is not an endorsement, an inspection, or a statement about licensing, insurance, food safety or quality.

An inquiry is a request, not a booking. Sending one does not hold a date and does not oblige the Venue to accept it. A Venue may decline an inquiry, or stop responding to it, for any lawful reason.

A booking exists when the Venue accepts your request and — where the Venue asks for a deposit — when that deposit has been paid and confirmed. Until then, the date is not held. Any final details of your event (menu, timings, service charges, minimums, taxes, gratuity) are agreed directly with the Venue and may be recorded in the Venue's own event contract, which governs those details.

When a Venue accepts your request, we email you a secure link to pay a deposit. Deposits are processed by Stripe. We never receive your full card number.

We are currently the merchant of record for deposits: the charge is made by us, and we collect the deposit on the Venue's behalf and remit it to them. Your card statement will therefore show TABLEFORFORTY rather than the Venue's name.

• Deposits are charged in US dollars.
• A deposit is not an extra charge on top of your event: where the Space has a food and beverage minimum, the deposit counts toward that minimum; where the Space is offered as a space rental without a minimum, it counts toward the total cost of your booking.
• The rest of what you spend on the day (food, beverage, service charges, taxes and gratuity) is paid directly to the Venue and does not run through us.
• We currently charge you no booking fee or service fee. If that changes, the fee will be shown before you pay.

If a payment is made but the Venue can no longer hold the booking, the Venue arranges a refund; your payment page and your email will say so plainly rather than showing the date as confirmed.

Cancellations, reschedules and refunds are governed by our cancellation policy, which is shown to you before you pay and repeated in your confirmation email. It forms part of these Terms.

The Venue decides. Whether a deposit is refunded, refunded in part, or applied to a rescheduled date is the Venue's decision under that policy. We issue the refund the Venue instructs us to issue; we do not overrule the Venue, and we do not decide refund eligibility ourselves. To cancel or reschedule, reply to any email we sent you about the booking or use My Bookings — the Venue confirms every change through the platform.

A Venue may also cancel a booking. If it does, you will be emailed, and any refund the Venue instructs will be returned to the card you paid with.

If something has gone wrong with a payment, please contact the Venue first, and us at noah@officialfoodgroup.com if that does not resolve it. Most problems are faster to fix directly than through your bank.

You keep every right your card issuer gives you. But a chargeback filed instead of a refund request that the cancellation policy would have covered may be contested with evidence of these Terms, the policy, and the booking record.

These Terms also apply to Venues and to the people who manage a Venue account. If you list a Space, you confirm that:

• you are authorized to list the Space and to accept bookings for it;
• your listing is accurate, and your photographs are yours to use;
• you hold the licenses, permits and insurance your jurisdiction requires, and you are responsible for food safety, accessibility, alcohol service and everything else that happens at your venue;
• you will honor bookings you accept, and will decide cancellations and refunds in line with the marketplace cancellation policy;
• you authorize us to collect deposits from guests on your behalf, and to issue refunds you instruct through the dashboard; and
• guest details we pass to you are used only to run that guest's event, and are handled in line with applicable privacy law.

We remit collected deposits to you, net of any fees then in effect (currently none), less any refunds or chargebacks. We may withhold amounts subject to an open payment dispute until it closes.

• Give accurate information — a wrong email address or phone number is the most common reason a Venue cannot reach you.
• Tell the Venue about anything that affects safety, including allergies and accessibility needs. We do not see or vet menus.
• Follow the Venue's rules, and applicable law, at the event.
• Do not submit inquiries you do not intend to follow through on, or on someone else's behalf without their knowledge.

When you submit an inquiry or pay a deposit, we send transactional emails about that booking — a copy of your request, the Venue's reply, deposit and refund confirmations, and cancellations. These are part of the service, not marketing, and you cannot opt out of them while a booking is live. We also pass your name, contact details and event details to the Venue you inquired with, because that is the point of the inquiry.

This section takes effect when SMS notifications launch on Table for Forty. Until then we do not send text messages, and nothing in this section applies.

SMS will be opt-in. We will not text you unless you have ticked an unticked-by-default box asking for it, and we will keep a record of the wording you were shown and when you agreed. Consent to receive texts is never a condition of making an inquiry or a booking.

• Messages will be limited to your booking: confirmations, refund or cancellation notices, and reminders before your event.
• Message frequency varies by booking. Message and data rates may apply.
• Reply STOP to any message to stop receiving them, or HELP for help. Opting out does not cancel your booking — we will keep emailing you about it.
• We will not text outside reasonable daytime hours.
• Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

You keep ownership of what you write and upload — inquiry notes, messages, listing text and photographs. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce and display that content for the purpose of operating the service, including showing a listing publicly and sharing an inquiry with the relevant Venue. Venue listing content may also appear in link previews when a listing URL is shared.

Everything else on the site — the software, design, text and the Table for Forty name — belongs to Official Food Group LLC or its licensors.

• Scrape, crawl or bulk-collect listings, contact details or guest data.
• Submit false, automated or spam inquiries, or impersonate anyone.
• Interfere with the site, probe it for vulnerabilities, or try to reach data that is not yours — including guessing payment links.
• Use the site to break the law, or to arrange anything unlawful at a Venue.
• Reuse our content or brand as if it were your own.

If you believe you have found a security problem, please email noah@officialfoodgroup.com rather than testing it against live bookings.

We rely on third parties to run the service — payments (Stripe), hosting (Vercel), database and file storage (Supabase) and email (Resend). Their handling of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy. Their own terms govern their services, and a payment made through Stripe is also subject to Stripe's terms.

The site is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant the performance of any Venue. We do not guarantee that a Space will be available, that an event will go ahead, that the food, service, facilities or safety will meet your expectations, or that any information in a listing is accurate, complete or current. We do not guarantee that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Official Food Group LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or loss of goodwill, arising out of or relating to the site, a listing, an inquiry, a booking or an event — whether the claim is brought in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, and even if we were told such damages were possible.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims relating to the service will not exceed the greater of (a) the total deposits you paid through Table for Forty in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars (US$100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so parts of sections 16 and 17 may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Official Food Group LLC and its owners, employees and contractors from any claim, loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the site, your breach of these Terms, your event, or your violation of any law or the rights of anyone else.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

Before filing anything, please email us at noah@officialfoodgroup.com and give us 30 days to resolve the dispute informally — most are a misunderstanding about a refund and are settled in a day. If that fails, you and we agree that the state and federal courts located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania have exclusive jurisdiction, and both of us consent to venue there.

We may update these Terms. The version on this page, with the date at the top, is the current one, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it.

A change to the cancellation policy does not apply retroactively to a deposit already paid — the terms you were shown when you paid are the terms that govern that booking.

We may suspend or remove a listing, refuse an inquiry, or block access to the site if these Terms are broken, if we are required to by law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect guests, Venues or us. We may also stop offering the service. Bookings already accepted and paid remain the Venue's obligation, and any refund due is still handled under the cancellation policy.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the cancellation policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the site. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign your rights under these Terms; we may assign ours in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, employment or agency relationship between you and us beyond what section 6 describes.

Questions about these Terms: noah@officialfoodgroup.com. Questions about a specific event, a date, a menu or a refund are fastest with the Venue directly.