Aleksei
Grigorev Dinn: a modern way to run your venue
Dinn is an AI-powered platform for restaurants and cafés that brings digital menus, table ordering, payments, cashless tips, and analytics together to simplify daily operations and improve the guest experience.
My role: As Dinn’s founding designer, I designed the mobile guest menu and B2B desktop interface, working directly with the founder to shape the product.
How digital menus help
- Higher average order value
- +20%
- Millennials prefer QR menus
- 78%
- Potential revenue growth
- +15%
- Reduced guest wait times
- −30%
Putting AI to work
Contextual recommendations and upselling suggestions help guests discover relevant dishes and create opportunities to increase order value. AI also helps improve dish descriptions and identify allergens, reducing manual work for the team.
A smooth start
Getting started should be simple. Teams can drag and drop an existing menu, let AI turn it into a digital one, and choose a preset that matches their business—starting with a ready-made foundation instead of a blank page.
Designed to fit your venue
Menus and interfaces support multiple languages, while logos, colors, and themes can be tailored to each brand. Integrations with existing services let teams keep the tools they already use.
From payments to insights
Dinn integrates with payment providers and brings together analytics on orders, payments, and tips, helping owners and managers understand their revenue and tipping activity. I explored the cashless tipping experience in more detail in the Dinn Tips case study.
I've had the pleasure of working with Aleksei on several projects, including KarKar, and now as co-founders of Dinn.
What I value most about Aleksei is that he's much more than a talented designer. He has a great ability to see the bigger picture, challenge assumptions, and bring fresh, creative ideas to the table. He's never afraid to question decisions, including his own, and I believe that kind of critical thinking and self-awareness is what makes him such a strong partner.
Aleksei combines great design taste with a deep understanding of products and business. He's reliable, proactive, and genuinely cares about what we're building. Our discussions aren't always about agreeing with each other, and that's exactly what makes working together so valuable.
After everything we've worked on together, I can confidently say that Aleksei is someone I'd be happy to build another product with, again and again!