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!
At It's Just Lunch! Scottsdale, many of our first dates lead to second dates… and the buzz continues with 13 engagements/marriages recently. The Scottsdale and Phoenix area is so sprawled… and the "operative" word in our client's lives is "busy". We constantly hear how the It's Just Lunch process enhances the personal lives of our clients... they have so much fun and it's all so easy!
One of our favorite stories is about Cindy and Alan. Cindy joined IJL a year and a half ago...about 2 weeks after Alan joined. Alan just relocated to Phoenix from California and he was recently divorced... starting a new life here. Cindy brought a friend with her to the interview because she was very skeptical. Newly divorced with 2 young children, Alan was Cindy's first date.... They went on hold within 2 weeks of their first date and became engaged 13 months after they met. Starting a business together, they were married in March, 2005.