Based at Salford’s Media City, guests can book specially designed sheds and greenhouses – affiliated to different restaurants – and eat with up to six other people.

Over 72,000 restaurants, cafés and pubs have embraced the initiative, which gives punters fifty per cent off food and non-alcoholic drinks when they dine-in, capped at £10.

Roughly 200 people from as far as York and Sheffield met in All Saints Park, close to Manchester Metropolitan University, for the event, which was coordinated with others across the country.