THE CONCEPT

Entertaining in your home should be effortless, chic, and convenient. Whether you’re planning a dinner party, client event, bridal shower, holidays with your family, or just a night in with the girls, T&T has you covered.  The best part is that you don’t have to buy or wash anything.  Instead, you rent the party.  If you’ve never thrown a party and have no idea where to begin, or simply want to add the latest design to your already polished aesthetic, T&T makes elegant entertaining easy. 

THE PROCESS

The online service gives you the ability to select one of six exclusive packages, all containing an oversized luxury textile runner, dual-sided napkins, dinner plate, salad plate, gold, rose gold or silver flatware, stemless wine glass, water glass, menu card, place card, paper straw, taper candles, and candlesticks. Input your guest count and party date, then the order is delivered to your doorstep.  After the party, repack dirty dishware and linens in the box the settings arrived in, and return to T&T for cleaning via a pre-paid FedEx label.

THE PHILOSOPHY

The T&T philosophy is simple: encourage more people to take pleasure in entertaining friends and loved ones, provide unforgettable experiences, and do so with a strong environmental conscience (all of our packaging is reusable and zero-waste).

THE STORY

T&T is a tabletop rental service with the goal of making entertaining accessible for everyone. Born as a cooking blog, T&T quickly established itself as a premier event planning, interior design, and private catering firm. To continue removing traditional obstacles to entertaining, T&T entered the nationwide market with on-demand tabletop rentals. From textiles to flatware, every part of the six packages were designed in-house. The San Francisco based company offers service throughout the United States.

THE FOUNDER

Liz is a native of the Bay Area and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Hastings College of the Law. After earning her JD and passing the California State Bar Exam, Liz found herself on the fast track in corporate litigation. She gained years of experience as a clerk to a Northern California Federal District Judge and at law firms focusing on mobile patent and complex commercial litigation. While stimulating, Liz knew deep down that the law did not have her heart. And so, in her spare time, she began dabbling in her true love: entertaining.

Liz founded T&T as a cooking blog focused on simplifying recipes so that everyone would feel comfortable in the kitchen. After realizing that this was her passion, she was faced with a fork in the road: stick with her career in law or continue to follow her heart down the path of entertaining. She chose the latter and committed herself to T&T full-time. With recipe development down to a T, Liz knew that there was so much more to learn. She dove headfirst into the entertaining world, getting her hands dirty in event décor, weddings, interior design and catering through planning countless events for private, non-profit, and corporate clients.

While many would be satisfied in finding such success in a passion project, Liz couldn’t help but look ahead. It was one fateful summer day when the next phase of T&T came to her. While picking up yet another order from an enormous party rental warehouse in South San Francisco she asked herself, “in a city where we can literally order anything on-demand, why not tablescapes?” Liz knew firsthand that pulling everything together to serve a meal can be more daunting than preparing the meal itself. So right then and there it became her mission to make elegant entertaining accessible to everyone. After a year of research, planning and design, T&T reentered the market as the first “rent the table” service.