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!

Let's start off by saying that we are very good at what we do! Many of our first dates result in second and subsequent dates, and 80 It's Just Lunch couples are dating exclusively!

One of our favorite stories is about Larry and Julia. When Larry came in for his interview, we immediately thought of Julia because she had so many of the qualities he was looking for. She was an avid runner, had a positive and upbeat personality and loved to travel. For Julia, she was looking for someone athletic, adventuresome and a great sense of humor. They met for a drink and on their date they realized that Larry used to date Julia's college roommate and that Julia always had a huge crush on him! Eight months later, they are still having fun and dating exclusively!