Our Success

It’s Just Lunch is a fun, proactive approach to your personal life. As first date specialists, we arrange fun lunch dates and drinks after work for busy professionals. We began in a tiny office in Chicago in 1991 and have grown to over 100 offices worldwide. In summer 2004, we opened our first international locations in Singapore and Toronto. Many of our first dates lead to 2nd dates and our matchmaking is responsible for thousands of marriages. We have arranged over 2 million fun first dates in our 100 years. Each month we arrange 50,000 dates for our 30,000 members worldwide----and growing by thousands each month!—that’s a lot of lunch dates!

A Chicago woman founded It’s Just Lunch over 17 years ago after her engagement was suddenly called off. She attended her first IJL wedding after the company had been in business for just 5 months. Since then, The IJL Team has been responsible for many weddings and she still gets goose bumps when she hears about another engagement!

Most of our clients come to us through word of mouth. Knowing that happy couples enjoyed their experience so much they are referring the people they know is the most rewarding experience.

One of our favorite and most recent success stories is Matt and Karyn. Matt travels a lot for his position and decided to join It's Just Lunch because he wasn't interested in meeting someone on an airplane and wanted to be more proactive with his personal life. (One of his closest friends met his girlfriend through us and knew our clients were- as he put it-"nice and normal".) We introduced Matt to Karyn last fall and they hit it off immediately. The greatest part of the story is we got to be a part of the engagement.