For NYC food writers and newsletter authors

Partner with DinnerElite

The DinnerElite partner program pays food writers, newsletter authors, and creators 30% of every subscription their readers buy through a tracked link. We built it for anyone whose audience fights to book NYC's hardest tables.

Email to join

Or DM @Eastkap. Tell us your publication and preferred ref handle.

Last updated July 11, 2026

How it works

01

Reach out

Email jacques.snchz@gmail.com or DM @Eastkap. Tell us your publication and the ref handle you want.

02

Get your link

You get a tracked link: dinnerelite.com?ref=yourname. Drop it anywhere you write about NYC dining.

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Earn on every subscription

You keep 30% of every subscription your readers buy through your link. You get a monthly report showing what you've earned.

Who is the partner program for?

The program works for food writers, newsletter authors, and creators whose readers try to book hard NYC tables. If your audience has ever missed a Carbone opening or refreshed Resy at midnight for Don Angie, they're exactly who DinnerElite alerts are for. You don't need a huge list. You need readers who care about getting a table before it's gone.

What does DinnerElite actually do?

DinnerElite alerts you when tables open at NYC's hardest restaurants. It watches Resy and OpenTable across 224 tracked restaurants and emails you the moment a matching table opens or closes. It does not auto-book anything for you. Every plan starts with a free 3-day trial. Premium is $10/mo or $100/yr for unlimited watches. Expert is $29/mo and adds a human concierge who books the table for you. That's the whole product: your readers are buying speed and, on Expert, a person doing the booking, not a bot that reserves tables automatically.

How does tracking and attribution work?

Your link is dinnerelite.com?ref=yourname. We use DataFast, a first-party analytics tool, to tie each subscription back to the referring link. You earn 30% of every subscription purchased through it. We'll be straight with you about where the program stands: there's no partner dashboard yet, so we settle payouts manually each month and send you a report showing what's attributed to you and what you're owed.

What can you use in your writeups?

Two things, both free and neither requires joining the program. The embeddable drop-time widget gives you copy-paste embed code for any tracked restaurant: a small card showing its booking platform and typical drop time, credited to DinnerElite. And our data is free to cite with a link, from per-restaurant drop patterns to the catalog-wide breakdown of all 224 tracked restaurants by platform, neighborhood, and price. If you need a cut we haven't published, ask and we'll pull it.

Do you link back to partner publications?

Yes, where it genuinely fits. We link partner publications from relevant DinnerElite pages, like a restaurant's drop-time guide or a neighborhood roundup, when your coverage adds something a reader would actually want to read. This isn't a guaranteed link exchange. It's a reciprocal arrangement we lean on when your piece is the best thing to point readers to.

Partner program FAQ

Your link is dinnerelite.com?ref=yourname. When someone clicks it, our first-party analytics tool, DataFast, ties their visit to your handle. If that visitor subscribes later in the same session, we credit the subscription to you. There's no cookie stuffing and no multi-touch attribution model to argue about: one link, one referrer, one credit.

We're honest about where things stand: there's no partner dashboard yet. We settle payouts manually each month and send you a report showing the subscriptions attributed to your link and what you're owed. At our current scale, manual review catches errors a dashboard would miss. As the program grows, we'll build the dashboard partners deserve.

Yes. Send readers to the free 3-day trial and you still earn 30% when it converts to a paid plan. Plenty of partners lead with the trial because it is an easy yes for a reader, and readers convert once they feel the alerts working.

Write in your own voice. There's no brand kit to follow. If you want a data hook, cite our reservation drop-time pages directly: each one shows how far ahead diners typically claim tables at a specific NYC restaurant, based on DinnerElite's booking-window estimates. Link to the restaurant's drop-time page or the hardest reservations ranking, and cite the numbers directly.

We encourage it. A short disclosure, something like 'this is an affiliate link, I earn a cut if you subscribe,' keeps trust with your readers and holds up better long-term than hiding it. It's your call how you word it, but disclosing is the norm we ask partners to follow.
30% of every subscription, tracked to your link

Tell your readers where the tables are

Email your publication and preferred ref handle. We'll set you up with a tracked link the same week.

Email jacques.snchz@gmail.com

Or DM @Eastkap · Last updated July 11, 2026