Discussion is varied and free flowing. Sometimes the group plans ahead to cover a particular subject, though easy and spontaneous discussion to which all members are party is the norm. You bring a different part of the meal each time. Hosting is easiest when the group agrees that hosts need provide only the beverages. Hosting also entails thinking through in what room the group will eat, using buffet or family-style, and setting up for that.
Hosts call upon the members who brought part of the meal to serve and clear it.
The director can provide organizational tools and pointers about logistics that have proven to make the Diversity Dinners process easy and enjoyable for everyone. The pictures you see on this site are not photos of us, the participants. Though we have some snapshots of ourselves at our Diversity Dinners, we have no scanner. So for the time being, just visualize variagated groups of smiling people of various ages, genders, sizes and colors. When each person has hosted once, the round of Diversity Dinners may come to conclusion.