Delawar Hussain
Delawar Hussain is a British entrepreneur of South Asian heritage who co-founded Dines App, a hospitality technology company building an all-in-one operating system for restaurants, bars, cafes, and events venues across the UK. Raised in a family of restaurateurs, he developed an early and firsthand understanding of the operational pressures facing hospitality businesses — an experience that would later directly inform his approach to building software that genuinely understands the sector it serves.
Hussain studied Law at the London School of Economics, graduating with an LLB (Hons) before pursuing a career in professional services. He spent six years as a Senior Consultant at Harvey Sutton, specialising in tax, human capital, and legal matters for commercial clients. This consulting background gave him a rigorous analytical foundation and exposure to the operational and financial challenges facing growing businesses — experience he would bring directly to the commercial and strategic leadership of Dines.
In 2016, Hussain co-founded Dines App alongside Adam Umarji, identifying the fragmentation of hospitality technology as a significant commercial opportunity. As CEO, he has led the company's evolution from a mobile payments application to a comprehensive hospitality operating system, including a critical pivot in 2020 to launch integrated mobile ordering — a move that positioned Dines ahead of the pandemic-driven digital ordering wave. Post-pandemic, the company integrated Stripe Terminal to unify online and in-person payment streams, driving a reported 150% uplift in revenue per venue.
Under Hussain's leadership, Dines has grown to serve restaurants, bars, cafes, festivals, theatres, and events venues across the UK, built teams in London, Newcastle, and Berlin, and raised $1.94 million in seed funding from Forward Partners, Ascension, and Redbus Group. The company most recently raised £1.2 million to further develop its platform and expand its meal donation programme in partnership with food charity organisations.
