Greenfield Festivals
Open-air sites, temporary power, thousands of transactions a day.
From muddy fields to manicured grounds, Dines deploys in under 24 hours with offline-first payments that keep every vendor trading regardless of connectivity.
Dines for Festivals & Events
You get one shot a year. Make every transaction count.
Unreliable connectivity. Traders who've never used the system. 50,000 people expecting fast service. One chance to get it right. Dines was built for exactly this.
Dines is a hospitality POS platform built for festivals, outdoor events, and large-scale live entertainment where connectivity is unreliable and every second counts. The system's offline-first architecture fails over from Wi-Fi to eSIM to full offline mode in 9 seconds, achieving a 97.4% offline capture rate. Trusted by Hyde Park Winter Wonderland, Royal Highland Show, Taste of London, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Dines deploys in 24 to 48 hours with on-site support, handles rapid trader onboarding (traders live in minutes, not hours), and settles every vendor within 2 to 7 days with 100% settlement accuracy. The platform has achieved 97.3% offline sales capture. Includes Tilly AI for instant menu setup and real-time performance reporting across all traders.
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Trusted at the UK & Ireland's biggest events
Tilly AI for Events
AI built for high-pressure, live environments.
Configure traders on the fly. Monitor live sales across every bar and stall. Tilly handles the complexity so you can focus on the event.
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The event reality
Events aren’t restaurants. The rules are different.
Connectivity is unreliable.
Fields, marquees, temporary structures. Wi-Fi drops. 4G overloads. You need a system that keeps taking payments regardless (97.4% offline capture rate).
Peak is compressed and extreme.
Thousands of transactions in a few hours. Queue speed is revenue. Every second of downtime at peak costs real money.
Traders are new every time.
Your vendors may never have used the system before. They need to be live in minutes, not hours. No training manuals. No patience.
Setup happens in days.
Not weeks. Hardware arrives, traders onboard, menus configured, terminals tested. All before gates open. There's no buffer.
Settlement must be fast.
Traders want their money. Quickly. Accurately (100% settlement accuracy). If settlement is slow or wrong, they won't come back next year.
You're judged on one event.
One bad year and you lose traders, sponsors, and reputation. The technology has to be invisible. It just has to work.
Reliability
The Wi-Fi drops. You keep taking payments.
Dines switches to offline mode in 9 seconds. Every transaction captured. Every sale recorded. When connectivity returns, everything syncs automatically. No lost revenue. No panic.
97.4%Offline capture success rate
9sOffline failover time
5%Of festival payments taken offline
How it works
How deployment works.
We deploy fast because events don’t wait. Here’s how we get you from “let’s do this” to “gates open” without the chaos.
1
Scope & Plan
We map your event: vendor count, layout, connectivity, peak windows. Hardware, menus, and payment terminals planned and allocated before anything ships.
2
Hardware & Setup
Terminals, printers, and kiosks delivered and configured to your site plan. On-site or remote setup, tested end to end before traders arrive.
3
Go Live
Traders onboard in minutes. Our team is on-site or on standby throughout. Real-time monitoring with under 60s response if anything needs attention.
4
Settle & Review
Every vendor settled within days. Full post-event analytics covering revenue, peak trading patterns, and throughput data. Ready to plan next year.
Trusted at the UK & Ireland’s biggest events
Proven at scale.
Agricultural Shows
Multi-day events, sprawling sites, hundreds of vendors to settle.
From county fairs to national agricultural shows, Dines handles multi-zone deployments with real-time reporting across every food and drink trader on site.
Christmas Markets & Winter Events
Ice rinks, ski lodges, outdoor markets. Freezing conditions, flawless payments.
Cold weather, outdoor environments, high footfall. Technology that works regardless of conditions.
Edinburgh Fringe
Taste of London
Royal Highland Show
Go deeper
See what Dines can do for your event.
The Event Tech Playbook
How to run payments, settlement, and reporting across a multi-bar, multi-vendor event site. Built from festivals and large-scale events.
Report coming soonSee Dines at a Live Event
Watch how Dines handles peak trading, offline payments, and real-time reporting at live events across the UK & Ireland.
Demo coming soonMeet Tilly AI
Ask Tilly anything about running an event. Configure traders, pull live reports, troubleshoot on the fly. AI built for high-pressure environments.
Feature coming soonProof from your world
See what operators with similar challenges think about Dines.
Mark Currie
Managing Director, Royal Highland Centre & Royal Highland Show
Since coming on board with Dines, we're already seeing the returns... We previously had a low-risk model where we had pitch fees with the caterers and bars. We've made the transition to Dines and are now we've went with % margin on all the sites. It's been a really successful transition.
The platform
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