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 17 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!

Greg, a 37-year old investment banker had been a client for almost two months when Sarah, a 31-year old attorney signed up. After almost three hours on their first date (so much for a quick drink after work), the two walked out the door and while hailing a taxi, Greg asked Sarah where she lived. They soon realized that not only were they both Upper East Siders, he for 4 years, her for almost ten, but they lived next door to each other. Date number two happened the very next morning, only a mere eleven hours later at the Starbucks they both frequent. A lot has happened since then and we're guessing their two year old son, Jared is pretty happy about that!