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 over 18 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 18 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!

The Capital District has so many single, professionals but they just don't have a venue to meet. That's why we are so popular. People are able to meet other busy professionals, like themselves, that they wouldn't have had the time to meet otherwise. We arrange many dates each week across the capital district. Most of our first dates lead to second dates. With many couples dating seriously through us....and several marriages under our belts and more coming up, our success rate speaks for itself!