Would you let a stranger into your home for a £10 dinner?

WHEN whipping up a big family meal, it can be easy to make a little too much.

But instead of putting leftovers in a tub at the back of the fridge, you could serve them to a stranger – and make some extra cash.

A new website aims to transform dining room tables into makeshift restaurants, with none of the overheads, red tape and staffing costs.

The idea is that home cooks lay on a meal, advertise with start-up firm WeFiFo, then invite customers who might pay £10 or £15 a head. It hopes to be ‘to the kitchen table what Airbnb is to the spare room’ – referring to the website that allows homeowners to let out bedrooms for a fee.

Seni Glaister, the entrepreneur behind the site, said: ‘WeFiFo lets people eat out for less, cuts down on waste and gives everyone more dining options – especially in rural areas.

‘It also gives people who are handy in the kitchen the chance to earn money from those skills.’ The com- pany, which charges between 10 and 20 per cent commission on meals booked through the site, pays for basic health and safety accreditation for its cooks. It also has deals with insurers to cover its users.

Events on the website include a Caribbean meal in Carshalton, Surrey, where diners pay £10 a head to choose from dishes such as red bream, chicken in a fiery jerk sauce or a lamb curry.

A Russian dinner at £15 a head in Lambeth is sold out. The menu includes traditional borsht and beef dumplings. Other meals listed include a Eurovision Song Contest pizza party for £5 a head, and steak and chips in Warwickshire for £10.

Some other websites offer similar services. But Miss Glaister said WeFiFo – derived from ‘we find food’ – is different because it will focus on the amateur end of the market. ‘We’re looking to create a kitchen table revolution,’ she said. ‘A student can make a huge vat of spaghetti bolognese and charge £4 a head.’

Miss Glaister co-founded bookseller The Book People, which has a £100million turnover, before stepping down to set up WeFiFo last year.

‘Gives everyone more options’