Table For Six

Here’s the scoop on this ‘dating’ service. I was a member for a little over 12 months (the length of the contract) a couple years back. Keep in mind that they could have updated the way things work since I was a member, but I doubt it. The cost is around $ 1400 – 1600 depending on the ‘special’ they have running at the time. That price might cover 12 – 14 months, again, depending on the special.
Table for Six is a service where they pair 3 women and 3 men for an evening dinner out. You are seated at an age-​appropriate table. That means the 20 somethings sit together. The 35−40s somethings sit together and the senior age group sits together. They don’t generally pair people who are overly age inappropriate. For example, I was always seated in the 35 – 40 somethings group and never sat at the ‘older’ or ‘younger’ tables.
You visit the web site weekly and set up your availability. If there’s a table for you, they’ll call you and tell you where and when. If not, you wait until the next week. As a guy, if you set up availability in the south bay, peninsula or SF, you’re likely to get a table every time since there seemed to be fewer active men than women.
The restaurants are priced anywhere from $$$, like California Café to $$$$, like Trader Vic’s. That means, you’re likely to drop anywhere between $ 25 and $ 50 on your meal. The only food item that is included as part of your ‘meal’ by T46 is a single glass of wine. You are responsible for the rest of food and tips for your own meal and each person pays their own check. The restaurants they use are generally limited and more upscale. Because T46 has a hard time getting restaurants to agree to how they work, they are limited to but a handful of places you are likely to visit over and over. So, in addition to the $ 1400 you have dropped for the membership, you’re still going to drop $ 25 – 50 for each meal.
With all that said, the ‘dating’ part of this is extremely loose and left up to you. If you find someone you like, it’s up to you to take it further. But, don’t go into T46 assuming you’re going to find someone. Just take it one dinner at a time. If you don’t go into this service with a lot of preset expectations, you’ll have a lot more fun even if you don’t find someone. If you go in assuming you’re going to be perfectly age matched and find people with the same interests, you’re going to be disappointed with this service. Instead, go in with no assumptions and you’ll have a lot better time. At the same time, don’t go into this service and only do one dinner a month. That’s just a waste of membership money. You need to be a whole lot more active than that.
T46 also offers other outings less frequently such as whitewater rafting and BBQ get togethers, but these are less about dating and more about mixing whole groups of ages of people together (including the T46 staff). These outings can be costly, like the whitewater rafting excursion. But, everyone I talked to who attended the excursion said it was tremendously fun.
I personally felt the Table for Six service was pricey, especially for what you are getting out of the deal (e.g. setting you up with dinners that you still have to pay for). So, what you’re paying for is primarily getting seated for dinner with 5 other people. Sometimes you have nice conversation and other times you have weird conversations. But, I never got the idea that T46 was really there to help find me a match. After my contract expired, I didn’t renew and I also didn’t get hounded about renewals either (which I’ve heard they do a ‘hard sell’ to get people to renew). While the dinners were mostly nice, I just wasn’t getting anything out of it that I couldn’t do on my own. That, and I was just tired of dropping $ 45 each time I did a table.
I’m giving this service 3 stars because they at least provided a decent job of pairing up people for the dinners, but the duplication of restaurants and the expense of the dinners wore thin. If you go into Table for Six just looking to eat out once or twice a week without any other expectations, then it might be worth it. Just be careful about empty ‘matching’ promises and their hard upsells once you get into their office.
Note, early in the lifespan of Table for Six they once sold lifetime memberships. While they no longer sell these memberships, there are still a number of people in the bay area who have them and occasionally use them. So, if you do enough tables, expect to be paired at a table with a lifetime member at some point. What I’ve generally found with these folks is that they’re just in it for a night out with no real intent of looking for anyone. In fact, I think that they may use some of these membership holders as ‘standby’ when they can’t actually make 6 at a table.

WATCH OUT FOR THESE GUYS! The voice that responded to my internet inquiry was in West Los Angeles via VOIP and talked to me for 2:25 minutes. She wouldn’t talk about cost and said that «people in your category were in great demand and we will make every effort to make the service ‘affordable’ depending upon what level of service you are interested in» all we need to do is interview you to verify your authenticity. It turned out that after driving from San Jose to Mt View, (about 20 miles) the only thing these people are interested in is separating me from $ 1500 with no proof of results or guaranty of any kind after they take your money! They don’t tell you about the $ 1500 «membership» fee for the YEAR until they waste your time having you visit their ‘Regus’ temporary office.

So, this is one of those things that is what it is — a rotating cast of lovely, delightful women in their 20’s with whom I’ve always seemed to bond who seem suggest 1 on 1 dates based more on age and ability to breath than anything else. I went on a just for two date Friday night with a gentleman whom I realized I’d met at a dinner a year ago who made me tell the team that I didn’t want anyone retired because I was still building my career, I used to use Craigslist to find good dates until the response from the homeless gentleman using the library computer sent me to a paying service… but I’m kind of ready to go back, especially now that they don’t seem to have any money to run any events.

I had high hopes for this service, but after 2 years of being stuck in a contract, it finally expired. Unfortunately I am now out $ 3,000.
The only reason this place is even getting 1 star is because the sales lady was amazing, she got me hook, line and sinker, the website is easy to use… and I met a good female friend, the only reward for 2 years of dating hell!
They get you in by promising «personalized matches» and only introducing you to people who meet the standards you tell them. Well that didn’t happen. I was stuck at tables with guys that I had nothing in common with and were up to my shoulders. They were all very nice guys, but not my cup of tea. After discussing this with my «personalized matching consultant» and talking about what I was looking for, it didn’t change, in fact it got worse.
They say that there will be a hostess there to introduce you to people at your table (I hear they don’t say this currently), but there was a hostess at one dinner, useless. At the tables a lot of the time people didn’t even show up!
The turnover at this place is also pretty bad. I had close to 5 (I think, I lost track) different consultants who knew «they could find me a great match» and was «so excited because I’m such a great girl.»
Save your money and whatever you do… don’t listen to the sales lady!

I’ve been a member for about one year. I’ve had a really great experience. After my first event, the white water rafting trip, I ended up in a long-​term relationship with another table for six girl for about seven months. Since ending that relationship, I’ve recently started going to dinners and have really enjoyed each one. Not every dinner is a love connection but I enjoy meeting and becoming friends with most of my tablemates. I’ve also had strong connections with a few of the people at my tables. It’s great to try new restaurants and meet new people who might become friends.
I’ve found that Table for Six is what you make out of it. I’m a very social and outgoing person and feel it adds to my social experiences. I’ve met great women and men with such different backgrounds that I probably wouldn’t have met otherwise. I’m not expecting T46 to do perfect profile matching like the «Millionaire Matchmaker.»
I’ve found that 70 percent of the people are really good, well-​educated people that are successful professionally, but too busy to meet people. About 25 percent are nice people that are a little on the socially awkward side. About 5% are desperate folks. I’d say those proportions aren’t too bad.
I go into Table for Six just like any other social event, I have no expectations and I just look for fun. I’m usually pleasantly surprised and I always have a good time.

After reading the review below and after having been a member for a year I think there ought to be some balance of reviews.
I’ll agree that there does seem to be a disproportionate number of women to men. Yes men do dine out more than women but let’s face it that is generally the case in social networks. Looking for a social outlet like many of us, Table for Six gives me good opportunities. They recently went through a restructuring and things have been a whole lot better since then. My new contact Mikka is terrific in that she is in contact often and she listens to what I’m looking for and does want to make good introductions.
One great bonus is that I have 3 terrific girlfriends that I met through the club. One of them is getting married next month to someone she met at an event. Another has been dating someone for about 3 months that she dined with. The other 2 of us are still looking.
Yes, it’s pricey, but to me that means that men who are there are really interested in finding someone. The people I have dined with are of good caliber, interesting jobs, and I generally have a good time at every dinner. The whole concept of dining with a group of 6 is a pretty relaxed atmosphere and a good way to meet people if you want to go beyond hanging out at bars.