New Yorkers can buy someone a drink without ever talking to them, thanks to a new app with a 20K-person waitlist
NY Post
The move is as classic as a good New York bar — you catch someone’s eye, or notice them and want them to notice you. You slide down, amble over, or even call out from down the other end, offering to buy the object of your sudden interest a drink.
Or, rather, you did until the age of the smartphone, which now has everyone avoiding social interaction like it’s a religion, even when out on the town trying to meet people.
Now, IRL-phobes can take not speaking to each other to a new level, thanks to a popular app that allows you to send cocktails to strangers — without so much as an “is this seat taken?”
The first-of-its-kind and free-to-use, Dion — which calls itself a “social club with taste” — is being downloaded left and right by New Yorkers looking to meet cute on the sly, make business connections, or even gift a friend.
After being vetted and moved off a 20,000-strong waitlist, members can send each other anything from coffee to an espresso martini, at one of more than 90 venues.
And it’s not just about digitizing yet another human interaction, said co-founder Revekka Palaiologou — who told The Post that the idea for Dion (named after the Greek god of winemaking and fertility) was sparked after she attempted and failed at gifting a bottle of champagne for a friend’s birthday dinner.
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